how it a go

I was blogging in another space recently and had to mention the use that apply to a phase of my photography. I always refrain from any heavy topic which will always require research and the presentation of hard facts, because I have decided not to go that route as my blogging could then become a work, and for me, this blogging is not a work, but is done in fun, for fun, for my enjoyment and entertainment. It is for me, but if you can share in any of it, that is good too. I have an outlook and I am not trying to convince anyone or modify their world, but maybe you can see some of it from my perspective. Some people fear ending up on the wrong side of the photo street, but how do you know that all that you think you know may be on that wrong side of the photo street? I am not going to put anything to you, like some lawyer, but because you are the smart person that you are, I know you will be walking on the right side of the photo street, most, if not all the time.

The laws and rules are the laws and rules. We come meet them and we are going to go leave them. Like all laws and rules we can break and mash them up as we please to suit ourselves. Then some people want to come and play God, saying that they right and we wrong to break up things, but they still want  to talk about creativity. I ain't knocking on anyone, because this photo attitude, more like outlook, has existed from the creation of the art. There will always be the upstarts who is not going to comply and who will be willfully contrary. A-so-it-go, that is humanity at its best. But life is funny, and when one of the creators of the system and they cousin auntie child daughter-in-law gone contrary, accidentally or otherwise, and create a break law image, it meets acclaim and gets royal assent and ushered into the hall of fame. Well if you going to wait till your  photos get there, good for you.  I am appreciating my images here and now, along with all the folks who thing that my images and their images are worth everything to us today and tomorrow.

Like I say I am not on anyones case. We as people need to get past many things, but it could be hard and difficult, given the mode of brought-up-sy that we were forced into. We come for a background of us and them, and some things don't die easy, but be that as it was, some of us are far better educated than them today. I am not into any war, but it is time that we look closely at ourselves, give zone 6 and 7 a rest, redefine parameters, and stop being stooge, puppet and echo. You with me? It ain't gone over your head?

I see some of my friends getting caught up in a kinda tech looking stuff and a likewise talk, and I just smile, nod my head, and say to myself, "well, that is their thing. It makes the art fly. When they become senior they may have a different perspective". But how certain things going in the world right now, I really hope that they get that opportunity to be a senior. The tech stuff is like water, essential and necessary to make things work, like second nature, stuff you know to run the program, but it is not the end product. Our body is 75%+ of water but we not making a big thing about that water any day. We just make sure it in place so we can do what we have to do. So too the techniques and tech stuff to help make the image, but if one is elected to propagate and teach the art, well, I could understand that too.

I suspect that the news media uses the most photo imagery world wide. There is no question about technical aspects of image making. The images speak for themselves. There are no trick photos either. It is just plain reality, and when you look at it, no out of the ordinary technique is required or applied. The image maker was in the right place at the right time, using the proper hardware and technical knowledge. Of course there are some folks who have to create the news and fabricate. I hear that a recent tsunami photo is a fake, but I am not caught up in and following up that tsunami and Japan affair. It is not that I do not have concern, but I am just not over concerned. Somewhere on our planet there is a war raging, and elsewhere there is a disaster ongoing, just that we may be unaware. So more people view news photos every day, and that has impacted the photo industry irretrievably. We are not going back in time before on-line news.We are staying with this presentation model, from picture format all the way through.

Now everyone can have a digital camera, now everyone can take photos, good photos, without darkening  the door of an approved photography school. If you want to operate a photo business you may have to go to photo school, because it is required in some countries. That degree or diploma is essential. In other places, the product only has to meet the approval of the end user, and you are into business, without any photo degree. It is a hard one, but that is how it go. The whole thing is about giving the end user what they want, and the quality of the presentation sometimes does not factor into the equation. It is unfortunate when the end user gets exploited because of their lack of knowledge. In some places their is a mechanism and machinery for redress, in others there are none, nevertheless it is incumbent upon us to produce the best work that is possible and to collect appropriately for it.

I have solved this problem by not working for anyone, nor volunteer services for free, but appreciate donation sent directly to one of my religious outreach partners somewhere on the face of the planet. Nothing is free ever, and some people set out to prove that wrong, so they have to be stopped in their tracks early. There is no free lunch. There are also a large number of camera owners who would seriously like to know more about basic photography and how to use their camera for creating great images like those seen displayed in some websites. The first and only thing a digital camera owner has to know, is that the great looking images do not come straight out of the camera. NEVER. That is why an image disk with digital processing software is supplied with the camera. Read the camera user manual and follow the installation instructions. Everyone begins here, but some of us are bright, know more, and begin anywhere.

[to be continued]