Re: [Leica] Tina's pictures

["Harrison McClary" <hmcclary@earthlink.net>]

Eric Welch wrote:
>Take note of what? I am a different kind of photographer than
>Harrison. I really like his pictures, but our approaches are
>completely different. If you can't see the difference, then please,
>don't said "take note Eric."

Then Bruce R. Slomovitz wrote:

> pretensions to photography for art's sake.   You're not the kind of
> photographer that Harrison is but describe yourself as an erstwhile


I hope Eric doesn't mind if I jump in here and say something.

First of all I want to say that I like Eric's photos and do not like 
my photos being used as an example to insult his work.

Eric is saying (at least I think this is what Eric is 
saying) is that he practices a more documentary style of photography 
than I am showing on my internet site.  Look closely at my photos and 
you will see most of them are shot using several strobe units for 
light, almost all are controlled type shooting environments done to 
illustrate a stroy.  In editorial photography for magazines this is a 
common way of shooting, and is very different from newspaper work.  

Now look at Eric's photos on his site and you will see that most of 
the photos are shot using available light in non controlled 
situations.  This is, I think, the difference Eric is speaking to.  

There is nothing wrong with either approach.  One is not 
better than the other, they are just different. 

To compare one photographer to another and to say "Take note you 
should be shooting like this" is not very good IMHO.  When a person 
is first starting out as a photographer he does tend to look at 
photographers he has liked and try to emulate their styles; but as 
time goes on each of us must develop our own style and this is what 
makes us distinctive from others.  Eric's photos are very nice and 
well done, and just because they are different from mine does not 
lessen their value (It probably increases them, actually).

Eric has said that he likes to find the humor in daily situations and 
I think you would have to be pretty blind to not be able to see this 
in his photos. 

I really don't find even the first thing constructive in this tearing 
down of each other over what kinds of photos we like to look at and 
or make.

Now if we were talking about how to take a damn light meter reading 
- ---that would be a different story all together. :)  <Just kidding 
here folks!>
Harrison McClary
http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto