Sunday, January 4, 2009

Sharp vs. noisy and blurry


Stone view, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

There are photography subjects which require extreme resolution and image quality, and then there are subjects where the image quality does not really matter so much.

Both kinds of photos can offer a lot - looking at the photo you may dive into the small details and appreciate the extreme precision. Or then you may cherist the noisiness and the blurriness, the feeling of image caught just before it escaped forever, a glimpse of reality visible just as a shadow on the fabric of reality.

I'm not too much into abstraction, but I liked this view, in front of the Kotka City Theatre, a reflection from a curved stone. I feel that this photo represents a bit of both photography styles. Or is it that it represents neither?

1 comment:

Andreas said...

It's absolutely fascinating!