Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >And when this happens, one doesn't need to get all gushy assed with theory > >and what to read into it.... it's just a simple damn good picture in yer > >face! Words and fancy assed word cleverism doesn't do one iota in making the > >picture any better! If the picture doesn't stand on it's own, all the fancy > >wordsmithing isn't going to save it nor make it any better! > > Ok I suppose i started this (bloody stupid thing to do)... How about the photo in the last Magnum exhibition of blood-spattered footprints in the snow? Crap photo, boring. Until you see the caption 'Bosnia', means something else, huh? I've wasted so many years of my life trying to teach guitarists who say 'uh, I want to express myself man, I don't need more than two chords, i just wanna play what i feel' and then spend the rest of their lives boring everyone to death. And photography isn't a brain thing!!?? Exposure, focus, don't have the foreground out of focus, zone focus, what am a trying to say? oh yeah click. The key is balance. A good photo is one that you can look at again and again. I've got Tina's The Blessing on my wall and i look at that everyday and see something new. Now I'm not suggesting that you go through some kind of academic exercise before clicking the shutter, but the brain stuff is there, in balance. What happens when you click when you feel like it and come back with crap? Some one says, 'have you thought about this, or that?'.. Oh and by the way, i'm getting married... what Leica shall i use... Julian