Re: Are ND grads only used for static shots?

leo, thanks for the kind words. i took a look at your site, and zoom or not, you've obviously been doing things right to have built such a successful company.

i think the real conceptual base of this whole arguement can be boiled down to this:
way back in the day, some artist/philosopher was trying to determine what it was about art that made it such a powerful phenomena. what he (forgot who it was) came up with was that if a person views a painting depicting a wolf in its natural setting, that person can then look at the wolf, studying any and all details of it, while being freed from the instinctual need to flee or kill the wolf-- thus allowing that person to see a wolf in a way that would be impossible in real life.

i think some of us in this arguement want to show people the wolf as they could never see it, while others are more concerned with harnessing people's innate fear of wolves and appropriating it as part of a larger story. i definitely would be of the former, and there's nothing wrong with those who choose the latter. but they're definitely different approaches, and the "awareness" that a zoom creates is a powerful tool for those who feel the same as i.

thanks,
jaan

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