Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You have expressed my recent (weeks, maybe months) mood rather precisely. Sometimes practicing is just practicing. Keep the chops up; Just in case a gig comes up; and I can actually find the groove. Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jan 7, 2009, at 4:41 PM, bob palmieri wrote: > Folks - > > Thanks for all the on & off-list comments on the handful of images > I threw up recently.(???!!) Because of the nature of these comments > (pretty positive), I'm gonna take a leap and say what I think > about them. > > They're fine. They're OK. I think I have a pretty good handle on > how to make stuff work within a rectangle (like so many others on > the LUG.). You know; simplify forms, help make the viewing easy on > the eye movements, a little visual rhyming, throw in some geometry > and sometimes a bit of chiaroscuro dramatics and you get something > that looks like a pretty good snap. > > Truth is, it's all seeming kindof cheap & facile to me these days. > Sometimes I think that I just do this stuff to sharpen my hunting > skills, in case I actually need to shoot something of real value. > > Could be one of those midlife things, but having some control of > the elements of visual vocabulary was supposed to be an > intermediate step, and I'm feeling like the next step is gonna > involve a lot of personal work to figure out if I have anything I > really want to say with shooting. > > Maybe it's just another version of the "sharp picture of a fuzzy > concept" thing. More like "well arranged graphically functional > pictures of fuzzy concepts." > > Does this make sense?? > > Bob Palmieri > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information