DarkElegance opened this issue on Jul 13, 2004 ยท 69 posts
Ariah posted Wed, 14 July 2004 at 3:59 AM
A good photograph takes a lot more effort than composing something from ready-made things! It's not a walk in the park like many people may think. You take your digital camera, go to a forest, take a snapshot and voila! No such thing. Trust me - to get a stunning shot of a sunrise, you have to BE there, at that particular sunrise, have good lense filter to catch the flare... No, photographers don't usually construct the things they photograph - but photographers who are artists can take a picture of a well known thing, a sculpture everybody has seen, a place where everybody has been - and make it look as if it was something new, unique, made by them. THAT is art. To produce unique things, evoking feelings. I'm not talking of every picture made with Poser. I create in Poser for Pete's sake! It's just when I see a number of pictures with the same pose, the same lighting, in the same surroundings... Isn't it a bit more fun when You actually tweak the pose somebody made? Or play with the lights? Or change the tezture? It's not going to offend the talented person who made those things, on the contrary, a drop of creativity will make those prepared elements stand out, catch a breath of life. And, last but not least, the creativity will show YOU. The artist. Making something new and unique from lego blocks. Isn't it more enjoyable than point and click?