Comments on: White rock photo http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/white-rock-photo/ philosphical commentary on art - all images posted are copyrighted by the artist or with permission, all rights reserved Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:49:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: lookingforbeauty http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/white-rock-photo/#comment-348 lookingforbeauty Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:51:42 +0000 http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/?p=209#comment-348 Forest Rat, You are absolutely right about the Asian concepts on painting. They read from the left and go towards the right. When I first got a digital, I had the most difficult time in adapting from the viewfinder to the screen. There are still days where the glare makes it almost impossible to see what I am focusing on but I take the picture anyway and often times it works out. K Forest Rat,
You are absolutely right about the Asian concepts on painting. They read from the left and go towards the right.
When I first got a digital, I had the most difficult time in adapting from the viewfinder to the screen. There are still days where the glare makes it almost impossible to see what I am focusing on but I take the picture anyway and often times it works out.
K

]]> By: forestrat http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/white-rock-photo/#comment-347 forestrat Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:50:16 +0000 http://artiseternal.wordpress.com/?p=209#comment-347 If you hadn't pointed out that the man in the back was taking a photo I wouldn't have known. I knew he was doing something interesting, but I could not figure it out. Now I see that he is holding the camera away from his face (instead of using a viewfinder) like many people with digitals do these days. It reminds me of my grandmother's old box camera that she would hold down at her waist to take a pic. My son does this even though I originally taught him to use the viewfinder. Your comment about reading a picture like you would read a book reminded me that asian people sometimes have trouble with western art and its left to right design since traditionally they write vertically from right to left. I have heard that this is changing however due to globalization and computerization forcing the horizontal left to right standard. MDW If you hadn’t pointed out that the man in the back was taking a photo I wouldn’t have known. I knew he was doing something interesting, but I could not figure it out.

Now I see that he is holding the camera away from his face (instead of using a viewfinder) like many people with digitals do these days. It reminds me of my grandmother’s old box camera that she would hold down at her waist to take a pic. My son does this even though I originally taught him to use the viewfinder.

Your comment about reading a picture like you would read a book reminded me that asian people sometimes have trouble with western art and its left to right design since traditionally they write vertically from right to left. I have heard that this is changing however due to globalization and computerization forcing the horizontal left to right standard.

MDW

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