Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, I hope you noticed I was mixing an example of copying Ansel Adams Moonrise Over Hernandez with doing original work . . . I don't think you are thoughtless. I only challenged you to become one with your gear and take pictures. In an earlier post I suggested that looking back at my work is exactly what I do. I go out with new gear and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot until I know just what it does. Then I go out knowing that it will do what I ask of it. Anyhow, I stand by Behold On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > Sonny, did you even think about what I wrote? Because I don't see how your response in any way addresses what I was talking about. > > I spoke, DIRECTLY, to how I (that's ME, MYSELF) relate to metadata and how I use it and how IT serves ME. > > I get that events are, for the most part ephemeral. But it's not like I'm a thoughtless boob just pushing the shutter release button on the camera. Most of the time I have time to think and the presence of mind to do so. So I do have a vision of what I want to accomplish. The camera records how I chose to capture it. (Or didn't choose because I was in a hurry, distracted, tired, whatever). > > Is it so incredibly inconceivable that I should be able to go back and look at how the image was made and actually learn of it? REALLY??? Because I try to do that all the time. Each exposure is an opportunity to learn and the more information I have to go on the more I have a shot at learning. > > It's all a creative process. The next moonrise I'll have an idea of what happened: gee, the NEX-7 behaves differently from the M8 in similar circumstances. > > Personally I think that's what being a profession is: using all the information you have at hand to get the best result you can. I may not have the eye of Ted Grant, or the skill of approach and composition as Doug Herr, but that doesn't mean I can't work toward those goals in an intelligent and thoughtful manner. > > I work alone. I don't have a support group to sit down with and talk with. I think I'd find the exposure unbearable. But I do care about my work, my vision, and my craft. > > Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I don't think so - at least not for me. > > Adam > > On Mar 25, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > >> But Adam, They could paint three dots on the ground at Yellowstone, >> and at the appointed hour with an identical camera and identical >> plates and, well, you get the picture, Actually, I mean, you would not >> get the picture. Moonrise is a non-repeatable. >> >> You might come close, but why would you want to? So you might have >> gotten a better result shooting wider, or faster or at a different >> ISO. The conditions are gonna be different next time unless you are >> in a studio. >> >> The whole point of what we do is to see something and show someone >> else what we see. >> >> Look Adam, See what I see! >> >> Behold! Look! See! Emblepo! >> >> There are lots of variables in Photography, what we do out there is >> try to get them right. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA