Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi John, Next time you go to Barcelona we wil share some catalan food and wine! Good work John, Salut! (this "salud!" is in catalan) Lluis El 15/09/2008, a las 13:47, John Beeching escribi?: > Dear All, > > I just meant to show a few photos to friends, not start a bar-room > brawl! > Ted is right, I am not my best editor, in fact few of us are. We > get too > close and too involved with our work. Though going through film > rather than > digital probably ensures that there is more time for reflection. In > many > ways it is that reflection, that coming back and looking at a > picture next > morning, that is so useful in editing. Even more so to me is > showing them > to others in order to elicit their comments; this is what I am doing > here. > Often I then say "yes, she is right, that photo should be cut" or > "he hasn't > a clue what I'm up to"; my response can depend on how arrogant or > lacking in > confidence I'm feeling that day. I also sympathise with Ted's view > on "art" > photography - if a photo requires a psychoanalytical explanation it > is a > crap shot. Certainly, when I encounter a website of "fine art > photography" > if makes me want to label mine "crude fart snaps". On the other hand, > especially in street photography where you have to work > instinctively, the > unconscious does play a role and you can see ideas emerging from the > pictures after you develop them. Here, in this set of photos, there > is, a > theme of homosexuality in several of them that I was unaware of when > I took > them. But perhaps I am reading too much into them! > > However, thank you all for your comments. > > To stir things up: I can speak not only English but French, Spanish > and > Catalan! > > John > > 2008/9/15 Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> > >> Ric Carter offered: >> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] A new set of photos >> >> > > > -- > John Beeching > http://johnbeeching.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information