Re: [Leica] What makes a good photo (was: Lee's week four)

[Henry Ambrose <digphoto@telalink.net>]

> The trick, of course, is getting all this *before* you take the picture.
> Not afterwards, with a cup of coffee in your hand, sitting by your computer,
> typing into the email program.  And I'm not there yet.

Martin,

You do get all this *before* you take the picture!
Otherwise you would not make the pictures you do.

When you're "there yet" will that mean that you make pictures just like 
(insert famous name here)?

For an experiment try turning off all that you "know" about taking 
pictures then go out and do it. Shoot a roll of only things that interest 
you. Walk around until you see something interesting. Don't "dress them 
up" shoot EXACTLY what piqued your interest. Don't use any of the rules 
you know, reject them. Come back and look really hard at the film. What's 
happening?

I'm hardly qualified to be a photo philosopher but this is what I do 
sometimes for exercise. It gives me clues about me and my pictures.

Henry Ambrose