[stylist] Blindness and photography

[Donna Hill]

Joe,
If photos are to be used solely by the blind/visually impaired 
photographer -- those of us who have some usable vision and simply want 
to see things in what is often a better format than reality, because we 
can stare at it for a long time and /or blow it up and change the 
contrast --  then, no sighted help is needed to judge the quality of the 
photo. Sighted help, I believe is useful in learning to aim and operate 
the camera to begin with, and in the cases where a blind person wants to 
share the photos with others. As Peter points out, he had sighted 
assistance in checking photos prior to posting them on the division 
website. With the low cost of taking digital photos and the fact that 
you can e-mail them to your relatives, you can either count on them to 
weed out the duds -- and sighted people have more duds than good ones -- 
or have a trusted sighted friend review them prior to using them. I 
certainly don't suggest that anyone start sending out photos to 
publishers as the art work of a blind person, for instance, without 
having plenty of sighted opinions.

Two final points ... There's nothing wrong with wanting to see things or 
acknowledging that visual imagery is hugely important in the sighted 
world. There's also nothing wrong in "needing" sighted assistance. 
Sometimes, I think we forget that people in general seek, value and 
indeed need the opinions of others, be they sighted or blind.
Donna

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On 8/8/2010 11:38 PM, Joe Orozco 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
>
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