Lucy_Fur opened this issue on Feb 13, 2002 ยท 65 posts
VirtualSite posted Thu, 14 February 2002 at 3:21 PM
Well, if we want to address that... Adams was not only a master of composition, he also used the negative to selectively increase and decrease the contrast in any given area of an image. It wasn't just point and click, since, as he himself said, his real work didn't really even begin till he got in that darkroom. No doubt we have many very good Poser artists out there. We also have what I could consider extremely good craftsmen. But at the same time, as Poppi points out, we also have a lot of people who slap one from column A with one from column B, hit the render, and call it "art" -- which it ain't. Sorry if that busts anyone's bubble, but it just ain't. Art means you put something of yourself into it, not just an opportunity to show off your ability to mix and match accessories. Someone pointed out that interior designers are considered artists, even though they don't make the furniture, and sometimes that's true. A good ID can create a mood in a space, improve a room's traffic patterns, disguise a construction problem -- in other words, work with the materials at hand. But someone who just slaps together a room isn't an artist, sorry. We really use the term "artist" much too broadly around here, folks. Way too broadly. If you put your Vicky in a default pose and slap a few pieces of armour on her, then shove that into a ready made temple set, don't expect me to consider you an artist by a long stretch. You may know how to cook, but that don't make you an Iron Chef.