tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post6117105444310407843..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: The Tyranny of Subjectamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-17877223562958404312013-06-02T21:54:17.004-07:002013-06-02T21:54:17.004-07:00One theory about this: unlike painting, photograph...One theory about this: unlike painting, photography has to care about what's in focus and what's not. Focus and apparent sharpness strongly influences where your eyes go (and whether the picture works), which means that photographers have to care about picking the right point of focus. In some senses this is the subject. Painters, not subject to the tyranny of focus, have a lot more freedom to avoid explicit subjects.<br /><br />(In some cases you can get enough depth of field that people's eyes are not pulled anywhere in specific, but I've read arguments that this is actually somewhat unnatural and even landscape pictures can work better if something is clearly drawing your attention by being in sharpest focus.)Chris Siebenmannnoreply@blogger.com