Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. I think what you are seeing on the site, is as you said earlier, young photographers whose style and abilities are not yet fully developed. It is soooo easy to shoot a bunch of photos and stick them together and call it a photo story. On the other hand it is harder than hell to shoot a true story and have it tell something where the whole is greater than any of its parts. This is what distinguishes the really great from those who aspire to be really great someday. This stuff is an example of what my PJ teacher used to call the shotgun approach. You shoot every image you see and hope there is some way to link them all together in some coherent way after the fact. In reality you have to be always thinking of the story and how to be certain all aspects of it are illustrated. Beginning middle and end. B. D. Colen wrote >I think what this photo story may be an example of is what can happen when >the video generation meets the still camera. The photographers are kids, >young adults, raised on video in general and music videos in particular. >They see in terms of a combination of motion, sound, etc. They don't think >and visualize in static terms. If you step back from the photos in this >"photo story," and think about what the scene was probably like, you can >understand how the photographers probably were seeing and experiencing what >is described in their captions, and when they see their own still photos, >all that sensory experience returns - to them. But for me, not having been >there, these are instants in time that don't capture the experience. Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto