P3D Re: What did I learn last night...

[George Themelis <gthemelis@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Oleg Vorobyoff <olegv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would advocate looking/waiting for better material so one is

> not forced to compromise.  When the material is right, the 
> composition seems to pop into being.  

One of the big challenges of photography is to make exceptional
pictures from ordinary material.  "Waiting for better material"
to do what?  Walk into the viewfinder?  There is good material
all around us.  Would you imagine that a bicycle wheel will make
an award-winning picture?  Mark Dottle did it!  Shot from the
bottom with the sky as the background.  If you are waiting for
the bicycle to jump up and stay frozen in the sky then you will
be waiting for a long time!  

If good composition was totally subjective then really there
would not be such a thing as studying photography, beyond the
technical aspects, I would think.  

George Themelis

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