Wednesday, August 30, 2006

rainbow

It's pretty cheesy by itself, but it goes with the story below.

3 comments:

Technoprairie said...

You remarked that the picture of the rainbow doesn't do the real thing justice. I think the same thing about fall colors of leaves. No matter how many pictures I take and in what light, they still don't do justice to the real thing.

I think part of the problem is that a picture is very small and doesn't translate the grandeur of the real thing. And we see the real thing in 180 degree (approx) vision. And a picture can't give us that perspective.

Mike Bailey said...

Right. Also, there's the fact that with the slightest breeze, leaves become so much more interesting. Photos turn these living things into stones, in effect. That's why I attempt to go after composition as much as anything--that proves its own reward regardless of whether it accurately captures the feeling of reality when you take the picture. I fear that I don't succeed even with this more modest goal more times than not.

Technoprairie said...

I never thought about the motion, but you are absolutely right about that.