In this strand of our work we continue to explore ways of creating images with a "painterly" quality, this time we take the images a long way from the usual conception of that which constitutes a photograph. For the purposes of this exhibition, we are quite forgiving of how we get an image, as long as we get an image that floats our boat.

It has been observed that a photograph can contain too much detail. The trappings of modern life can intrude upon a scene; electricity pylons marching across the landscape, a line of parked cars or road signage in a street.

We have to question our purpose in making the image, reportage would have us include all of the detail, to make an objective observation. In landscape photography we are afforded a great deal of latitude, either by using a long lens to crop into the scene or a wide angled lens, to give us a broad scope without giving too much emphasis to the minutiae. Where photography passes over into art we can do pretty much anything our imagination can come up with, especially given the power of the modern tools that are at our disposal.

We've long been intrigued with the juxtaposition of art and technology, especially with the continual blurring of the boundary between them.

This computer-rendered image of a virtual scene [1] by Gilles Tran [2] is widely considered to be one of wikipedia's best and it is effectively indistinguishable from a photograph. The rendering program is freely available for download and so is the file of source code that can executed by the program to create a rendering of the image.

Welcome to Impressions, our fifth online exhibition. We hope you will find it of some interest.

References

1. Image:Glasses_800 wikipedia entry
2. Gilles Tran Oyonale