[soosh]

I think scanners would fall into the same non-allowable area as say stacked exposures.

[soosh]

again, to my mind the difference is between the snap-pop of the mirror folding out of the way, the aperture opening and the exposing of the film or sensor to a given scene and the back and forth scan that is occurring with scanning.

both can be digital imagery, but to me, one is scanning, and one is photography.

I will allow that scanning backs blur the two. hopefully someday I’ll be rich enough to fully comprehend what’s involved there.

[soosh]

a scanner is different in that it doesn’t use an aperture and lens to take a still image, it uses a moving lens to create an image of an object.

Except that something like a scanning back would be quite similar in operation to a scanner, except that it is most definitely a camera. In the film world, some panographic cameras worked in a similar way.

Plus, I use a camera to “scan” stuff all the time, like this:

that’s pretty close to making me change my mind, but I’m not there yet. I think you get a different thing with a scanner than with a camera. I’ve done scanner art, it’s awesome with say a whole bunch of mixed wildflowers. but I don’t know that it’s photography. maybe it is. I’m honestly not sure. Also I’m high as a weather balloon, so maybe this is the time to go listen to Coltrane rather than obsess on terminology.

[soosh]

I think scanner photography would make a good theme, but I don’t think that it should be allowed regularly.

[soosh]

a scanner is different in that it doesn’t use an aperture and lens to take a still image, it uses a moving lens to create an image of an object.

[soosh]

ok, I’m all set.

[soosh]

though I guess a lot of my ruins stuff qualifies.

[soosh]

I’m hoping that once I see a few entries, something will click.

[soosh]

I’m kind of at a loss for this week’s contest. I’ve been super busy and haven’t had time to shoot anything new, I don’t know what I’m going to have in the archives that would fit, even a little bit.

[soosh]

Soosh, thought I should bring our comments about your look alike over to the discussion thread. I have never seen this guy before, but I do work at the Mall and would be more than willing, that should I see him again to ask, direct, whatever, you may want me to do. Well, that’s a convoluted statement. But you get the idea.

Ha, no, that’s OK. I don’t have any intention of ever trying to track him down.

[soosh]

This kind of shooting is definitely uncomfortable at first. But it’s good to push the boundaries of comfort.

[soosh]

I think it needs to be relaxed. Just shots of strangers in a city. How hard is that?

[soosh]

No, that’s the light. It’s crazy.

[soosh]

Yeah, that looks like sensor heat.

If you don’t have noise reduction in your camera, I think that there are software programs out there that can use a blank shot of equal length to subtract the noise that shows on the regular image.

[soosh]

you’re vice principal, but in a good way.

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