[stylist] Blindness and photography

[Donna Hill]

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On 8/9/2010 3:29 AM, Jewel S. wrote:
> The way I see it, many blind people are not totally blind. Quite a few
> have some sort of usable vision. My boyfriend is one such example, as
> am I. He has enough vision that he can use a CCTV to read things. We
> found that using the handheld CCTV (Amigo), he could freeze the screen
> over an object to take a "picture" of it, then magnify it and put it
> on the TV if necessary to be able to see it. I think having a digital
> camera and a large screen TV would be really great for him, because
> then he would be able to see things that are quite small normally, but
> he could blow it up to a size wher he could see it (for example, a
> pretty bouquet of crepe myrtle flowers or the painting on a decorative
> plate.
>
> I have heard of some blind photographers doing so for the simple
> reason of magnifying the picture to be able to see the faces of family
> and friends. I know my boyfriend would be able to do this. I really
> would give near anything to be able to do the same. Sadly, my vision
> is not good enough for that.
>
> At this point, my vision is almost exclusively light and colour
> perception. However, as I can see colour, a high contrast image is
> still something of a beauty to me. As an example, there is a blind
> painter in Texas who did a painting called Eyes. It is purely black
> and white, and very high contrast. It is very lovely to my eyes, if
> magnifyed gratly.
>
> For myself, I would love to be able to take pictures to share my life
> with ffamily that I do not see often. Most of my family is in
> Lousiana, and others are in Arkansas, South Dakota, Texas, and
> overseas. I do not get to see them often, and they have not seen any
> pictures of me in several years. I would love to be able to take
> pictures of myself and things in my life (like my cat when she is in
> one of her silly poses, or my boyfriend asleep with his dog laying
> across his chest with a cute look on his face) to send to my family
> and friends. Just because I am blind doesn't mean I don't understand
> the importance of sharing images from my life with my sighted family
> and friends. I know pictures are important to sighted people, having
> been one myself for 23 years, and I wish to share images from my own
> life with others.
>
> My two cents,
> Jewel
>
> On 8/8/10, Joe Orozco<jsorozco at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I haven't followed this thread.  Forgive me if this has already been raised,
>> but how exactly do blind people know how to gauge the quality of their
>> product?  This can't possibly be something one can independently measure
>> without sighted assistance, and at that point, doesn't it become
>> counterproductive?  If pictures are taken for posterity, wouldn't a person
>> want that to be preserved at its best?  I'm not bashing it, because I
>> genuinely don't know how blind people would do it.  I'm open to
>> enlightenment, though I'm scanning through my e-mail and see that the topic
>> has been bounced about quite a bit already.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
>> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
>>
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