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Out of curiosity, do you not consider photographs to be art, then? A painter who spends hours meticulously copying one photograph out of all the photos that exist in the world is making the same kinds of choices about subject, framing, and so on as the photographer who chose to take a photo of one thing out of all the things that exist in the world. But in each case it’s “just” a reproduction.
“Art” can mean a grubby unmade bed, a pile of bricks, a shark in aspic or half a cow.
So photographs can definitely be art, whether elaborately staged studio work or a serendipitous snapshot - like one taken this morning by Northern Irish landscape photographer Derek Heeps, after unexpected Easter Monday snow dusted The Dark Hedges in County Antrim.
Is that photo art? I don’t know. Do I like it? Definitely.
At this point the respective artistic merits of colour vs monochrome could get trotted out, except that Terry Pratchett’s vampire iconographer Otto Chriek has already said most of it, in zat stagey akzent of his.
Here’s the Derek Heeps Dark Hedges photo run through three settings of a simple colour-to-black & white conversion app: the first one is “BW Normal”...
...the second is “BW C”, enhanced contrast...
...and the third is “BW C+”, even more contrast, enough that detail in extremes of light and shadow start getting washed or blacked out.
If Mr Heeps had intended to shoot in BW, he’d have taken care to avoid those losses, or at least maintained more control over them. The same would apply to someone painting or drawing that scene, whether they used oils, watercolours or monochrome charcoal.
So is monochrome "more artistic” than colour? YMMV. Mine certainly does.
I have a friend who’s a professional photographer and won’t be drawn into an opinion one way or another. However he does say that he’ll sometimes spend a monochrome-only day to refresh his awareness of light, shade and graduations of tone, then apply that awareness to his colour work.
I don’t find hyperrealistic images - like this silver tea service, for instance - any more or less artistic as a painting than as a photograph.
The technical skill to do it is extraordinary; it just does nothing more for me whether one or the other.
As mentioned in the original post, all of this is IMO. YMMV, and that’s just as it should be. :-)
At some point, words like empathy and emotion have to be restrictive, or they become meaningless. If empathy means "having any emotion at all about another person," and emotion means "any feeling, no matter how slight," then no one can be said to lack empathy. And neither of those jives with the commonly-understood "lacking callousness" definition, either. From the outside, it looks to me like you're blurring definitions just as much as the people you're responding to.
Okay, but the thing I need to know in order to join your conversation is: what do you mean, then? If you don’t mean “feeling emotions that motivate action,” what do you mean? Do you mean “feeling the same thing as the other person,” the problem with which is “how do you actually know for sure the other person is feeling what you think they’re feeling, and is it really not empathy if you think so?” Or do you mean something else, and if so, where’s the cutoff?
There’s so much insistence that we don’t mean anything coherent but I still can’t figure out what you guys are saying at all. Like... if we say you’re unemotional, we’re insulting you, but if we say you are emotional we don’t get that you’re not NT. It’s baffling. What is the actual trait that you’re saying we have that you don’t? How do we recognize it? What are its boundaries?
24 flavors?
What is your favourite word?
I think there's a name for words that taste like what they mean in your mouth, but I've always felt that "quiet" feels like a down blanket landing on you in bed when you say it.
I’m curious—how do you pick which things to reblog from bygone years?
the same way I pick what to reblog now, whatever catches my fancy!
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I just found your blog (while I was looking for photos of 18th century clothing) and An Unorthodox Rule looks really interesting! I was wondering if I should start reading in any particular place, or can the chapters on your DA be read in any order? & is it still ongoing? Thanks and cool blog!
Hello!! Oh my gosh, I am so tickled you’ve asked. :3 “An Unorthodox Rule” is my NaNoWriMo from two years ago, but it is an ongoing project for sure. The pieces on my dA are actually just excerpts and you can definitely read them in any order; and I am very pleased to say that I have begun penciling the first chapter of “An Unorthodox Rule” the webcomic, which will be launched in coming months and I definitely welcome you to join me in that adventure! <3 Also, I am so happy to meet fellow history lovers. :D
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