Category: meaning

Along similar lines

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Show me yours…
a childish hint, request, taunt, dare…. but it grows up as we do, or don’t.

Artists follow. Creation occurs, recurs, again and again. Lines mix, intermix, widen or shrink into the blank page. No one creates the blank and then fills it in. But what you use, how you use it defines the boundaries of your imagination. Cameras image, they cannot imagine. Which of these cameras is made by a bigger artist?tichy-02.jpg353062211_12bb90eb23.jpg

It sometimes helps if you ask yourself a question. In this instance, I ask myself these question:

  1. Which camera will be more fun to use?
  2. Which camera will make the photographs I want to see, to have?
  3. Which camera lets me ask more interesting questions of my world and the photographic world?Maybe these questions will take you somewhere with the camera you prefer.

The Cost Of commerce

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To many photographers commerce is necessary. Too many photographers make this mistake.

Making work for others, others directing what you do, means that you follow their eye, mind, heart… and it is filled only with commerce. You give up to them more than they will ever understand as they stand alongside you, guide you, by asking to buy you.

Is This True?

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“Many shades of red fall outside the gamut of photographic processes,” he said. “When this happens, these reds are assigned the closest red at the edge of the gamut. The result is that dozens of reds are assigned the same colour. Because dimensionality is defined by tonal gradations, and all of these reds are represented by the same red, a three-dimensional red area will be without gradation and will appear flat.”

— Stephen Shore, reported in BJP

Is this pablum cold or hot? It is old, but is it true; valid? Does it work on you and your eye?