Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:58 AM 11/8/97 -0700, you wrote: > > > >Thus if you are "blind", if you have lost your original curiosity and > >spontaneity, the freshness you had when you were a child, you will > >have to recover these abilities. Learning to see may take a long > >time. You will never finish really. > > Here is a very important thread! > > I am always trying to discover approaches and methods and practicing > the "seeing" of emotionally charged and high impact images. I have > images in mind before I go out and then when I do venture out > everything around me is blah. Any ideas out there on what it takes to > "see", identify such images? > > Ken > > As we grow older, many of us lose that freshness, curiousity, and spontaneity in that way we perceive the world around us. Very often we are pushed into seeing the world in a certain way by famous photographers and a natural tendency is to emulate the style of the pics which dominate billboards, mags, etc. I overcome this weakness partly by participating in the local photo club activities. Fortunately, instead of comparing hardware at meetings, the club is active in holding mini-competitions (when everybody can be a judge <Ian Stanley, I hope you can still remember that one>), outings, inviting various photographers to show their slides of countries that they have travelled to, followed by food and chitchat and sharing of ideas. Dan K.