Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]good thinking! - and worth reading -Stasys On May 16, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > To caption, or not to caption: that is the question: > Whether 'this nobler to spell it all out leaving nothing to the > imagination. > Or let them sit there dumbfounded, not having a clue. > > I thought the other day I should get a digital tape recorder so I can > record > where my head was at when I took the shot. > But then why not just do that and skip the photo altogether? > They say being deaf is far worse than being blind. > Why not record sounds instead of pictures? > Make sound collages. > > But put stuff in like "print this real low key" otherwise I'd just > lighten > it up like a dumb machine print printer every time. > "put dark rock at III" > "print it dark stupid" > > Dorothy Lange or someone lately I was reading though thought you need > to do > some serious writing with every right off the bat shot or your not > doing it > and I thought there was something to that. I should try doing that. > Might > have even been Dianne Arbus! > Click shutter, wind camera, write stuff. > > I like to see the photo coming first. > I'm less of a photo journalist kind of guy.. A writer who takes > pictures. > I've done a little of that. I had my pad with me. Got all the names. > > In a sense like this it's more of a travelogue kind of thing. > The photo is almost like clip art. > It's like you'd grab it from anywhere you can. > A big help in illustrating the caption though. > > "Here's the copy now where can we get a shot?" > > The picture should say a thousand words. > Not twenty at the bottom doing it for you. > That's my manifesto for the evening. > > It's like the best images in your mind are the stories you heard on the > radio. > > I do have fun putting weird photo's in emails though. Just sliding them > right in there. Ones I shot or ones I get from Google-image. I love > getting > that big contact sheet from the world up with the Google-image. > So many pictures in the world. > I just read that's why the Surrealists liked photography. > Because it was no big deal. Still images raining like confetti from > everywhere and anyone could do them. > That's why Breton liked them. > That's why photos were "marvelous". > > I think "marvelous" might have meant "fun" sometimes. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >