... I will not be selfish
I am becoming like a President, as today I retract the statement that I made yesterday. I would be very mean if I did not offer any form of contribution to the photographic community from which we draw so much. I can speak to my own personal experiences and share some of them, with the hope that you may also seek to develop your own photographic expression.
We recognize that the Internet offers an abundance of photography "gurus" and information, but no one has the time to browse even a fraction of these information sites. If per chance you get caught up browsing, you are missing the "light" and not making images, or taking pictures and photographs. I no longer consult the 5000 + bookmarks which I have. I have come to recognize that only a few photo websites are really noteworthy. My photo surfing is now mainly for photo products and some reference data. This works great for me because I am retired and have selected my major elective.
There are a handful of website that I find to be interesting and informative and I will list some of these links FYI. If you already subscribe to some of them, your head may be screwed on right. It is incumbent upon all of us, photographers, to share photographic information with our brother and sister photographers, even if they are our "cut throat" competition. You never know, they may now only squeeze us in the throat but not cut at it, and if we are lucky, they may even take off the strangle hold.
Seriously though, real photographers are born wired. The photographic instruction that they receive only help to sharpen their innate talent and skill. There are also some photographers that do not study and are able to cut it, after a fashion. The instruction helps us to use the modern imaging hardware and software to capture 'light' and 'lighting', and present it in any "reality" that we choose.
I do not appreciate some photographers critiquing, more like criticizing, other photographer's presentations, as though it is only they that have a handle on photographic knowledge, like they are right and everyone else is wrong. Any photographer is free to bend and break any rule to produce whatever image that he perceives to best represent his "feelings" at that point in time. How can any right thinking person critique any one's creative expression? Reality truly eludes some of us.
This is not to different to the story of the young art student who drew a dot on a sheet of paper and captioned it "Aeroplane in the Distance." That creative expression and reality should have brought him/her a decent pass mark, but seeing that timeline may have been in our historic past, and possibly the youth was coloured, and the teacher was not, it is any one's guess as to his/her mark. You may not appreciate the 'noise' accompanying an image, but if that is the 'creative expression' of the artist, who are you to find fault. Just appreciate the artist for his/her effort, and desist from throwing stones.
We recognize that the Internet offers an abundance of photography "gurus" and information, but no one has the time to browse even a fraction of these information sites. If per chance you get caught up browsing, you are missing the "light" and not making images, or taking pictures and photographs. I no longer consult the 5000 + bookmarks which I have. I have come to recognize that only a few photo websites are really noteworthy. My photo surfing is now mainly for photo products and some reference data. This works great for me because I am retired and have selected my major elective.
There are a handful of website that I find to be interesting and informative and I will list some of these links FYI. If you already subscribe to some of them, your head may be screwed on right. It is incumbent upon all of us, photographers, to share photographic information with our brother and sister photographers, even if they are our "cut throat" competition. You never know, they may now only squeeze us in the throat but not cut at it, and if we are lucky, they may even take off the strangle hold.
Seriously though, real photographers are born wired. The photographic instruction that they receive only help to sharpen their innate talent and skill. There are also some photographers that do not study and are able to cut it, after a fashion. The instruction helps us to use the modern imaging hardware and software to capture 'light' and 'lighting', and present it in any "reality" that we choose.
I do not appreciate some photographers critiquing, more like criticizing, other photographer's presentations, as though it is only they that have a handle on photographic knowledge, like they are right and everyone else is wrong. Any photographer is free to bend and break any rule to produce whatever image that he perceives to best represent his "feelings" at that point in time. How can any right thinking person critique any one's creative expression? Reality truly eludes some of us.
This is not to different to the story of the young art student who drew a dot on a sheet of paper and captioned it "Aeroplane in the Distance." That creative expression and reality should have brought him/her a decent pass mark, but seeing that timeline may have been in our historic past, and possibly the youth was coloured, and the teacher was not, it is any one's guess as to his/her mark. You may not appreciate the 'noise' accompanying an image, but if that is the 'creative expression' of the artist, who are you to find fault. Just appreciate the artist for his/her effort, and desist from throwing stones.
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