Sunday, September 17th, 2006 |
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Why is it that I can’t just take pictures, good pictures, that can stand alone in their own right? Is the only way for me to be a successful photographer to do all this compostiting and collaging? I look at Aperture and other photo publications and there are people successfully taking single frame images all over the place without any debate, and here I am having to take the mediocre images I take and put them together to give them strength in numbers.
Is it so wrong that I just want to take pictures?
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I completely understand. I spent three years learning how others wanted me to take pictures. I learned how to do it for the perfect effect, perfect lighting, perfect everything… I have since started having fun again and dropped all the perfect framing (best learned with a large or medium format camera and limited amount of film IMHO), and started enjoying it again. Granted… I would love a better camera, I am still a camera snob.
It’s not just you. Taking the pictures is the fun part. Making the pictures “perfect” is the part you get grades for.
OK, I just got a major urge to check out cameras I know I can’t afford.
I realize I’m no photographer or photography professor, but I’ve always liked your pictures. Actually I would love to have some for our place. Sorry you’re frustrated! I’m guessing those other people took rolls and rolls of film just to get that one picture that got published.
September 18, 2006