[LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?

[Vincent Dobson]

I am --- thanks for the tip - I might need the D5 in the next life?

My opposition to digital photography is two fold - one fold best explained
with this situation.  I often see a site and plan a particular photographic
composition involving the Sunrise, Moonset, high water flow etc etc.  I love
the moon as a photographic element in a scene.  Close to me (facing East) is
a great view of an old barn with a drive going past and a great looking
white gate.  Most important is a particularly unique shaped old tree.  I
want to get a shot of the Moon rising over the barn at Sunrise.  I've been
trying for this shot for 5 years - I'm hampered by the fact it must be when
the Moon rises here at 115 Azimuth (+- 5 degrees) at the exact time required
to have the moon in great detail and sufficient  Sunset light to illuminate
the scene.  If I could then just have vibrant red washboard clouds --- naw,
that is just too much to ask or expect!

I could take a great Sunset picture of the scene (perhaps even with the
clouds) then digitally insert the Moon - not me -- you see the art to me is
in the journey - the effort required to get the shot, not the end picture.

I just grow sick of seeing (at Art and Craft shows for instance) mediocre
photographs that have been modified in Photoshop (perhaps with the
"watercolor" button.  Then they show it off and proclaim "I'm an artist!" --
I beg their pardon --- the artist was the guy that wrote the computer
program.

I have shots I'm most proud of --- ones I've taken years to find the
elements just right - the fog drifting up the river and the incoming tide
timed just right to negate the force of the river flow and all at the exact
moment of Sunrise - the incoming tide stilling the flow enough that I could
get a long exposure off and keep details of the houseboat crisply in focus.
I speak of "Riverhouse"  I tried for I think 5 years before all elements
were timed perfectly.  The next year the Corp of Engineers made everyone
take their houseboats off of the river.

There is one other reason I will perhaps explain at another time.



Vince Dobson
Visions In Nature
www.VisionsInNature.com

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