Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah, don't worry about that. I didn't speak about you anyway :) Per tisdagen den 29 oktober 2002 kl 16.13 skrev Ted Grant: > > Per Claesson eloquently said: > a whole bunch of stuff that when I got to the end and he asked.....>>> > " In > case anyone is still reading this and has any idea of what I am > talking > about, thanks for the word.<<< > > Hi Per, ;-) > Well said mon ami! ;-) But what did you say? ;-) > ted > > >> It is an interesting and appropriate point that you make. I must >> confess I agree with much of what you say. >> >> I have an artistic background and now mainly use photography in my job >> as a graphics designer. Apart from the commercial/illustrative value, >> I >> am using the camera to explore ways of seeing things, to deepen my >> realizations of people, nature and reality as such. >> >> I certainly get bored by pictures that just feel like by-products of >> someones technical obsession, or typical "photo club" images, where >> people just analyze composition, sharpness, contrast and such. Shapes, >> colors, light have power, energy to touch and transform our minds and >> souls, and it is extremely rewarding for a photographer to set out on >> a >> journey into such visual discovery with his camera as a tool. >> >> My feedback to many PAW images here (I say it once so I don't have to >> write it each time) is: When you press that shutter, think about what >> you want to say, and "feel in" the image. Does it have any power in >> it, >> something to convey, or will it, in spite of being pretty, visually >> smart or whatever, feel empty, "flat", speechless if you will. >> >> We are all differently developed when it comes to "inner seeing", and >> any criticism on that level has to be of a very encouraging nature, >> since we are in a way dealing with individual growth here, not just >> technical or artistic ability. To say to a person, "Your picture is >> shallow and empty, just as you probably are yourself", won't do it, of >> course, but unfortunately it is often true among us modern people who >> rarely give ourselves time to develop any vivid inner life. Here are >> possibilities for us to develop and make photography into a real-life >> adventure. >> >> >> Per >> >> tisdagen den 29 oktober 2002 kl 05.59 skrev Wariowilly@aol.com: > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -------------------------------------------------------- VisiMedia -- Webbutveckling & webbhotell www.visimedia.com Tel. 0416-300 07, 070 99 22 55 9 Fax 0416 300 03 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------------------------- Läs mer om GateScan, den nya virusfria e-posten: www.gatescan.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----------------------------- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html