discussion about analog and digital photography

1）What are some photographic effects that can be achieved using digital or analog(darkroom film light etc)technology?
digital photography is a form of technology that uses an array of light sensitive sensors to capture the image focused by the lens, as opposed to an exposure on light sensitive film. The captured image is then stored as a digital file ready for digital processing (colour correction, sizing, cropping, etc.), viewing or printing.（from Wikipedia）

2）What are some photographic techniques that can only be done using digital technology?

Some creative effect like make the subject twisting or change into a different shape.

3）What is the difference between analog photography and digital photography?

The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer. (Walliam J.Mitchell)

Digital photography offers more possibilities to picture and changed the idea of “realism”. That is to say, digital photography turned photo into a kind of material for artist to invite new images, not only be a work of art.

For analog photography, it offers batter qualities than digital way because artist use darkroom to edit his work by hand which make the picture more sensitive and have more details. And as one of my teacher said, darkroom gave him a great joy that digital photography will never reach. I believe that may one of the reasons that there’s still a large amount of photographer choose analog photography.

What exactly is digital cinema?

According to Lev Manovich’s definition, digital cinema= live-action material + painting + image processing + compositing + 2D computer animation + 3D computer animation. Digital cinema is a particular case of animation that uses live-action footage as one of its many elements. (What Is Digital Cinema? By Lev Manovich, The Digital Dialectic,Boston,1999,180)


short films on the Internet quickly became a genre in itself. Apart from digital or digitized video, anoher form of production and presentation of the digital moving image has been provided by software such as Macromedia Director and Flash. which allow for the creation of "movies" by combining video, animation, and multimedia elements.
Usually, people are used to the ways that they are already familiar with and they use new media to reach the effects which  traditional technology can reach too. When a new technology came up, it's always a problems of how to use it. Mission to Earth gives us some example of it. They explored a new language with digital technology and gives an different view of the define of "cinema".
Lev Manovich <www.manovich.net> is the author of The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego <visarts.ucsd.edu> and a researcher at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.(http://www.softcinema.net/?reload#)
Mission to Earth, a science fiction allegory of the immigrant experience, adopts the variable choices and multi-frame layout of the Soft Cinema system to represent "variable identity." Absences is a lyrical black and white narrative that relies on algorithms normally deployed in military and civilian surveillance applications to determine the editing of video and audio. Texas, a "database narrative," assembles its visuals, sounds, narratives, and even the identities of its characters, from multiple databases. The DVD was designed so that every viewing of each film generates a different version.(http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10584)
The screen reminds me of Mondrians abstract works. He tried to explore "pure art" which means "art" will get rid of additional elements like the story in a picture or moral discussions or even any kinds of background about a painting. So his work gives a idea of how different structure with basic color can affects audience emotion.(maybe) For Mission to Earth, I can't deny that it makes me sleep (similar to Mondrians painting), but in the end, I felt like to watch it once more, for I think I got something from it. He is testing our mind! Maybe.

hand colouring a black&white image

iamgine

1. Wikipedia can make immediate changes and correction.

>The founder of the Wikipedia tells a fact that a team of elites is always behind the Wiki system in order to monitor the Wiki anytime and anyhere. So, everything on Wikipedia is always work in progress.

evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQR0gx0QBZ4&feature=related

>There is a great number of volunteers from all over the world who always ready to add evidence, links, proof and reference to issues.

evidence: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff

2. The accuracy of Wikipedia is high.

>Wikipedia is more neutral. Because everyone can post what they know or think on the website.

>Encyclopaedia Brittanica may contains some biased information because Brittanica didn't display its rough draft and everything must be checked by a copy editor.

>Also, there are some unaccepttable and minor errors in Brittanica.
evidence: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/jan/26/schools.uk2

Aliens Coming!!!!!!Wikipedia or Encyclopaedia Brittanica?

It's hard to make a choice but I probably choose wikipedia.

In fact, I don't use it very often because I thought it's a really complex and boring and endless job for me to check every information I got from it is respectable or reliable.But I do believe that everyone who is willing to contribute the society should have the chance to join in editing encyclopaedia. This, I think, can be called democracy. Though democracy is not always perfect in many ways, this kind of program still helped to enlarge our knowledge and avoid prejudise in some point.

In the article: Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopaedias? Dale Hoiberg,senior vice president and editor in chief of Encyclopeadia Brittanica,quoted Lewis Mumford's opinion "information could bring about a state of intellectual enervation and depletionhardly to be distinguished from massive ignorance",reminded us that the large amount of information can't all be useful and can never prove how we smart. Thus,he suggested taht the troditional encyclopaedia which based on scholars and experts.And here is the question: how to be professor in one field? Yes,they should at least got master degress to prove taht one had studied for a long time. And how about one that do dedicated a lot without any degree? Can't he/she help to perfect encyclopaedia? A media is an unnoticeable guidance of the way we see and treat the world.Encyclopaedia Brittanica stands for the old printing world and Wikipedia seems presants for the digital age and it is developing obviously.Let's see and waite for its "golen age"~

P.S. I'm not saying that troditional encyclopaedia is meaningless anymore and should go to grave forever. Like the relationship between Inernet and newspapers,or television, I don't think they are confrontation but complementary, or, just different choices.

P.P.S.As for the media of paper and television, I strongly recommend "Amusing Oureselves to Death",by Neil Postman.

Modern Time

Since the industry revolution, technologies are becoming more and more important in our daily life. But I'd rather say it's SEEMS important. We often look back of the life in mid-age and feel pity for them because we simply belive that technology help us to be happy.
My question is, is technology really make people happier than before? Isn't it just made life more convenient and comfortable and becoming much greedy and demanding too much??

In the story of Modern times, there is no particular conflict like drama or movies usually have. It’s more of a plain unadorned account. Many little issues made the movie, with funny jokes while audience felt sad when the movie finished. Modern Times shows workers position or situation were largely changed by machines. I think the reason why director think of technology so negative is he produced it right after The Great Depression and there were large amount of unemployment. Workers at that time suffered a lot (many workers nowadays especially in undeveloped countries are also in a terrible circumstance ) and they believe it’s due to the invitation of machine, in other word, the development of technology.

Now people talk more about the benefits of technologies and sincerely appreciate it. I do too because it became a very important part in our life in many aspect and made life more convenient and comfortable. But the developing of technology is not always good which make people lazy and caused a lot of waste. It may another reason for Modern Times that the director chose silent film even though sound film was invented. Simple but depend more on actors performance rather than words.

For now, I think there’s too much technology that is useless or just too much for one’s life. Tradition is not always bad thing that has to be destroyed, they often shows the wisdom of our ancestor’s harmony life style. We should rethink of technology to avoid enslaved by it.

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