Why is the still photographic image popular?
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Yeah, I agree with that. (Thak you for the reply by the way
)The depth of a photograph is so much more than a moving film.
I think film studies students would disagree there
The thing I find with a film is that it has to have 24 great images per second. We're lucky as photographers in that we only have to capture that one moment. Personally they're very different things. A brilliant film can make you cry after 2 hours because you get insight into characters and you get to hear their story. I dunno, I just feel they're very different things and its like comparing music to a book. They're both words but they're totally different.
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With film the single images are fleeting, they rush passed and theirs no time to actually see each image...just like real life.
Photography freezes the moment and that and allows us to see more of that instant than we would normally.
Photography freezes the moment and that and allows us to see more of that instant than we would normally.
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With moving images, I'm merely just watching something, like a news clip if you will..
With a still image, I can stop, reflect, take stock, and think about what I see before me, I can have a good look around, and again, and again, and keep looking around.
Not possible with moving images. If I'm watching a movie clip, I'm constantly trying to look 'outside' the frame, or if the frame is moving, I usually want to to manipulate it and move it in the opposite direction.
Of it someone/thing goes out of frame, I want to follow it. Tis the natural way we work, our eyes follow things that capture our attention.
With a still image, with nothing moving, we have nothing to 'follow' and keep track of, so we can sit back and take in the WHOLE scene, from the prominent bit in the foreground, to the out of focus bits in the distance.
Great topic by the way, thanks for starting it
With a still image, I can stop, reflect, take stock, and think about what I see before me, I can have a good look around, and again, and again, and keep looking around.
Not possible with moving images. If I'm watching a movie clip, I'm constantly trying to look 'outside' the frame, or if the frame is moving, I usually want to to manipulate it and move it in the opposite direction.
Of it someone/thing goes out of frame, I want to follow it. Tis the natural way we work, our eyes follow things that capture our attention.
With a still image, with nothing moving, we have nothing to 'follow' and keep track of, so we can sit back and take in the WHOLE scene, from the prominent bit in the foreground, to the out of focus bits in the distance.
Great topic by the way, thanks for starting it