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Subject: Re: What is a good nature sound recording?
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Sat Nov 3, 2012 9:14 am ((PDT))
As it happens, so did nearly every other great film- or plate-based
still photographer from the 19th century through the latter part of
the 20th like Edward Curtis, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Margaret Bourke-
White, Galen Rowell, Eisenstaedt, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Nick Nichols,
Frans Lanting, Cunningham, McCurry, or Art Wolf, etc., etc.,=96 masters =

in black & white or colour =96 all of whom at some point framed, dodged, =

burned, highlighted, or otherwise edited their photographs.

Bernie


On Nov 3, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Dan Dugan wrote:

>> If all the above sounds like "manipulation", that started with the
>> choice, placement and aiming of mics, recording level, and decinding
>> when to push the record button.
>
> Ansel Adams made a lot of adjustments in his negatives when he
> printed them.
>
>> I've got weeks of rubbish recordings, but the ones that go  out are
>> those which, to my mind, represent the wildlife in this area. It is
>> the end result which matters.
>
> It's an art of illusion.
>
>> BTW I've just put a stereo file on Soundcloud asking what is wrong
>> with it:
>> http://soundcloud.com/stowford/wren-and-stream-stereo-check
>
> Out of phase?
>
> -Dan
>
>
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>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
> Krause.
>
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