Norman 202

I always carry a man bag complete with

passport

money

cam

phone

battery or 2

rse wipes

condoms

lipseal

fountain pen

lens pen

spatula (don’t ask)

penknife

rabbit’s foot

mace spray (occasionally)

torch

usb drive

compass

hat

gps (handheld)

map (paper)

water

MEDICATION

Norman, I think it would be helpful if you said what you mean by complex

I’m not sure what I mean, tbh.

Examples.

1. I don’t think adding symbols to an existing list of symbols changes things in a complex way- eg 2+2+2 isn’t more complex than 2+2 it’s just longer (a different shape?)

2. Adding a word to a sentence can change the length and meaning as in

he is a good man => he is a good man not

which suggests a complex change

To me, adding more light is an example of 1 but adding blue to red is more like example 2, I think, but am not sure ;-)

2+2+2=6 is more complex than 2+2=4.

I don’t see the former as being more complex but your comment about adding blue to red has got me thinking.

Okie dokie.

No, think about your music example. If the tuba player plays a really loud note. he might drown out the piccolo but he won’t change the sound of it. If you add light to a scene, all you do is change what’s being lit and you don’t change the existing light. That’s what i mean by interaction, I think.

Fred, thanks for the link. Thinking aloud, again, I don’t think lighting more subjects in a scene makes the lighting complex as it’s just a collection of simply lit objects. I think complex lighting only exists when the light from one subject interacts with the light from another possibly due to one subject being more reflective than another.

As I say, just a thought.

I can’t get past the sexual element of this photo. Sorry.

(consensual sex between adults)

Is there anything other than simple lighting given that a subject is either lit, partially lit or not lit?

(I’m referring to light that is under our control not, for example, street lighting)

A 200/2, if used with a 2x TC, becomes a 400/4. A 105/1.4, if used with a 4x TC, becomes something like a 420/5.6

Yeh, and the world viewed through rose tinted glasses looky rosy.

a culinary piece of art this week. the following is fillet steak on a bed of cornflakes with a side dish of chillies, slugs and green things. needless to say, this wasn’t what i thought i was ordering but my korean is poor.

iphone X

I ought to add that I want to view photography this way- I want the abstract definitions to sit alongside/compliment the art.

For me, color and black and white aren’t in an additive/subtractive relationship. They’re two available photographic mediums/choices.

Fair enough Fred and I agree wholeheartedly with your second statement but I’m also happy to view B&W and colour as being related to one another and the structure of that relationship (additive/subtractive) is down to the photographer/viewer.

primarily because color is an extra dimension to be factored into the shot

A bit OT, but I’d never thought of colour photography like that. To me, colour is the norm and B&W is a reduced form.

I had a M8 once but, unfortunately, we fell out.

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My guess is that Dylan Thomas saying, "Do no go gentle into that good night" and his "rage, rage, against the dying of the light" might have been thinking not just about continuing to take pictures but continuing to take pictures that matter, even about daring to take pictures that matter.

Too right, Fred. Photos that matter matter :-)

MIA

Maybe they have better things to do with their lives as I imagine running this site to be a nightmare.