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

["gl" <gl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The point is this - most 'instictive' artists know what do without having to
analyse it - that is, when they're at the right place at the right time,
experiencing the right emotion, things click into place (even lying on the
ground taking an interesting shot may be an impulse, not a rule of framing).
If those conditions don't exist, why take a picture and try to 'fake'
something of emotional interest when you're not feeling it?

Most others don't seem to understand this, and they're the ones more happily
advocating using 'rules', and following them.  If you _need_ to make
something mundane look interesting (especially in things like commercial
art), or you just don't have that sense of urgency that guides you to the
correct approach, well, go ahead, but it's certainly not the way I work, and
I think this is what Oleg was getting at.

Whatever works...
--
gl

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Themelis" <gthemelis@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Multiple recipients of list PHOTO-3D" <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:02 PM
Subject: P3D Re: What did I learn last night...


> --- 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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