In his Basic Photo Series, Adams went to some lengths to assert that a
two-dimensional representation of reality (with much reduced dynamic range)
is, ipso facto, an abstraction. While many think of his work as
'realistic'. He would have bristled at the accusation. He (like the others
Bernie mentions) was an artist -not a simple compressor and camera-pointer.
In audio it's the same thing. I had a meeting yesterday with a young fellow
who wants a 'realistic' recording of some songs backed by acoustic
instruments:
Q: "What do you think of compression?"
A: "Do you want to listen to it in your car?"
...
Re David's Stereo check
Dan: Yes, splitting and inverting one side helps immensely. I am curious
why encoding to MS yields such a dry Mid signal, though.
Keith
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Bernie Krause <>wro=
te:
> 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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> >
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