“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” Matt Hardy Today was an "open session" and three f8'ers brought in images for us to see and comment on. The discussion started mostly with the image location then we changed our comments to discuss the "why" of each image. The "why" included perspective, color, lines and the issue of the "punctum" of each image. To refresh our collective memory of the definition of the punctum and the studium by Roland Barthes Roland Barthes was a French philosopher who wrote extensively about photography. His best known work was Camera Lucida. Barthes wrote that a picture is a message without a code. He thought that the "studium" was the image composition and content...or the message and another component was the "punctum" (or barb) that provided a visual code to the image...something that draws our eys into the visual composition. Below are examples of the images we saw at the meeting today...as usual just a few...editors choice Joe Loudermilk showed a set of images taken at train stations in various countries Howard Landau showed several images fro a recent trip to Randsburg, a ghost town here in California Steve Lewis showed a number of images with an architectual bent from his travels...welcome back Steve Lastly, we began a discussion on photographers "social contract" with our society and communities where we live....to be continued
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