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johnastovall · 08:51 AM

I don't know how many here are habitual Luminous Landscape readers but I confess. I am.

This is a new article posted today which I found interesting and gave food for thought about making more powerful images, Image Deconstruction.

Hope you all find it interesting.

bullsparade · 03-23-2006, 08:22 AM

Interesting, thanks!

PeteQ · 03-23-2006, 09:42 AM

That was interesting. Now my question is, did Michael "see" all that before he clicked the button or after? I'm sure somewhere in the back of his mind he envisioned it to some extent. That, to me, is one of the qualiies I am working to develop. Sometimes it's there and sometimes not. I'd like to up that "it's there" ratio if you know what I mean....

evil4blue · 03-23-2006, 11:55 AM

I agree with Pete. Deconstruction is the easy part...real-time construction is where I aspire to be.

gardener · 03-23-2006, 12:08 PM

Good article as most of them on LL are...

johnastovall · 03-24-2006, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by PeteQ

That was interesting. Now my question is, did Michael "see" all that before he clicked the button or after? I'm sure somewhere in the back of his mind he envisioned it to some extent. That, to me, is one of the qualiies I am working to develop. Sometimes it's there and sometimes not. I'd like to up that "it's there" ratio if you know what I mean....

The point is to look at you work after you have done it and by doing an active deconstruction you focus on why what is says. By doing that you will get where you see more of that in the environment. It's why classical art students analyses great works of art to learn what makes them get and to incorporate the same meta-concepts into their work.

This will translate into upping the "it's there" ratio.

johnastovall · 03-24-2006, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by evil4blue

I agree with Pete. Deconstruction is the easy part...real-time construction is where I aspire to be.

But if you can't do post-facto deconstruct of the image into what attracted you to take it, how can you hope to do "real-time construction?"

xseption · 03-24-2006, 05:02 PM

interesting article ... the only thing it does not mention is the cultural bias and what is not there

johnastovall · 03-24-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by xseption

interesting article ... the only thing it does not mention is the cultural bias and what is not there

Show me any human without a cultural bias. The very act of producting an image with a camera is a cultural bias. As for what's not there, may or may not be important. After all void is what holds form.

How would you deconstruct it?