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This painting was done on campus showing the tree line and sky.

We were allowed a few hours to complete the work.
The oil painting was done at the same time and the Chinese paintings…🖼️

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15 hours ago, 250swb said:

And given you are intent on dragging up long dead posts to make an argumentative point I would say the only person that can call themselves an artist is somebody who delivers the results for peers to judge, or who have been accredited with an educational achievement, or make their money with 'artistic' work. So somebody simply saying they are an artist may be in response to the mother-in-law telling them they make very nice photographs, and it doesn't make them an artist. But somebody who posts on the LUF photo forums (or a wider sphere) and gains a reputation for great work even though they may be an accountant in real life may well be considered artistic if the photographs are loved by other photographers. 

I was told by my art instructors I was a natural artist and persue this very seriously, which I didn’t…🥸

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7 minutes ago, Anthony MD said:

I was told by my art instructors I was a natural artist and persue this very seriously, which I didn’t…🥸

This group rejects over 90% of submissions.

One of my images said to look like a painting…🖼️

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vor 7 Stunden schrieb Anthony MD:

This group rejects over 90% of submissions.

One of my images said to look like a painting…🖼️

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What are those parallel lines? Electricity or stripes from

the negative? 

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8 hours ago, Anthony MD said:

This group rejects over 90% of submissions.

One of my images said to look like a painting…🖼️

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It doesn't look like a painting at all, would a painter have rendered such a flat sky or large foreground area of indistinct grey water? The distinction is the painter paints the whole of the canvas to balance the textures and colours, not just tweaks the colour balance and brightness of a photograph.

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Looks like a nice landscape shot with a digital M and the genious Summicron 50/2 v2. Keep the electric wires. A painter would have removed them i guess. Keep the moment. Just my 2 cents.

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1 hour ago, 250swb said:

It doesn't look like a painting at all, would a painter have rendered such a flat sky or large foreground area of indistinct grey water? The distinction is the painter paints the whole of the canvas to balance the textures and colours, not just tweaks the colour balance and brightness of a photograph.

That what I was told…🖼️

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2 hours ago, 250swb said:

It doesn't look like a painting at all, would a painter have rendered such a flat sky or large foreground area of indistinct grey water? The distinction is the painter paints the whole of the canvas to balance the textures and colours, not just tweaks the colour balance and brightness of a photograph.

It’s a image taken with the Leica MD 262, so you’re right!

How would you assume what an artist plans in making his paintings?

An artist paints according to his perceptions not according to yours.

You seem to have a critical sense in evaluating art.
So you’re are an accomplished artist?

Please show your work if you have any to share…🖼️
 

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4 hours ago, Paulus said:

What are those parallel lines? Electricity or stripes from

the negative? 

No negative, it’s a digital image.
The parallel lines are the fiber optic cables a company just installed…!

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2 hours ago, 250swb said:

It doesn't look like a painting at all, would a painter have rendered such a flat sky or large foreground area of indistinct grey water? The distinction is the painter paints the whole of the canvas to balance the textures and colours, not just tweaks the colour balance and brightness of a photograph.

If it doesn’t look like a painting to you but to someone else it does.  Everyone sees things differently…👀

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2 hours ago, lct said:

Looks like a nice landscape shot with a digital M and the genious Summicron 50/2 v2. Keep the electric wires. A painter would have removed them i guess. Keep the moment. Just my 2 cents.

I have an obsolete Mac desk top that can’t download Light Room or Photoshop to remove those wires…!

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34 minutes ago, Anthony MD said:

I have an obsolete Mac desk top that can’t download Light Room or Photoshop to remove those wires…!

I quite like the obsolete Mac, if I were capable of downloading Lightroom or Photoshop it would be too complicated and time consuming…!

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8 hours ago, Anthony MD said:

 

You seem to have a critical sense in evaluating art.
So you’re are an accomplished artist?

Please show your work if you have any to share…🖼️
 

You can click on my signature at the bottom of this post to have a look, it's always been there.  And I have a BA Hons in Fine Art (Photography), etc. 

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5 hours ago, 250swb said:

You can click on my signature at the bottom of this post to have a look, it's always been there.  And I have a BA Hons in Fine Art (Photography), etc. 

When in college, I studied Chinese paintings on my own.  The school didn’t teach that, the college was in New York. I meat a affluent Chinese classmate that suggested I try Chinese paintings and to his surprise replied I was the only one in America that could do it!

The same with oil painting, no one taught me but was considered a natural at that.

I took a sculpture class and the teacher said after what I accomplished looked like a Brancusi, totally amazed saying also was a natural artist.

Never learned photography either!

So I consider my work artistic since I wasn’t taught photography but look at landscapes as if I were to paint it.

A BA in Fine Art Photography doesn’t make you an artist, that’s something you’ve learned, it’s a trade…📷

 

I was talking about you being an artist…🖼️

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48 minutes ago, Anthony MD said:

 

All that you do in photography has been taught to you by someone else.

You laugh because of ignorance…😂

Yes I was taught photography, so were most of the worlds best photographers, do you think they weren't taught? And I'm far from including myself in any category of competence because an artist leaves it to their peers to judge the work, they do not bestow accolades upon themselves, unlike yourself 🤣

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I was told I was a natural artist by university professors. I didn’t believe them and never took their advice to make a living as one.

You are missing most of what I was explaining in this topic.

My guess you weren’t taught that in photography class, understanding…🥸

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vor 2 Stunden schrieb Anthony MD:

When in college, I studied Chinese paintings on my own.  The school didn’t teach that, the college was in New York. I meat a affluent Chinese classmate that suggested I try Chinese paintings and to his surprise replied I was the only one in America that could do it!

The same with oil painting, no one taught me but was considered a natural at that.

I took a sculpture class and the teacher said after what I accomplished looked like a Brancusi, totally amazed saying also was a natural artist.

Never learned photography either!

So I consider my work artistic since I wasn’t taught photography but look at landscapes as if I were to paint it.

A BA in Fine Art Photography doesn’t make you an artist, that’s something you’ve learned, it’s a trade…📷

 

I was talking about you being an artist…🖼️

After reading to her this post, I showed my wife your landscape picture. 
she said : “ oh my Jesus!” . 

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vor 2 Stunden schrieb Anthony MD:

When in college, I studied Chinese paintings on my own.  The school didn’t teach that, the college was in New York. I meat a affluent Chinese classmate that suggested I try Chinese paintings and to his surprise replied I was the only one in America that could do it!

The same with oil painting, no one taught me but was considered a natural at that.

I took a sculpture class and the teacher said after what I accomplished looked like a Brancusi, totally amazed saying also was a natural artist.

Never learned photography either!

So I consider my work artistic since I wasn’t taught photography but look at landscapes as if I were to paint it.

A BA in Fine Art Photography doesn’t make you an artist, that’s something you’ve learned, it’s a trade…📷

 

I was talking about you being an artist…🖼️

When I read posts like this I really mis Pico and the good comments he would give…

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