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tom dinning posted a new activity comment 13y, 5mo ago
Just when the conversation was getting interesting. Here’s the thing. In over 50 years of taking pictures I have had the good fortune to be able to view my photography in many ways. When I was your age (by the looks I would guess in the 20’s) it was all about me and the camera. The bigger the better. the more I knew about the tech stuff the…[Read more]
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fogfilter uploaded a new picture: New York City Marat… 13y, 5mo ago
THIS IS AN IN CAMERA IMAGE SHOT AT A LOW SHUTTER SPEED RECORDING ONLY THE FEET AS THEY REMAINED ON THE GROUND DURNING THE EXPOSER. SLIGHTLY ENHANDED TO REMOVE DISTRACTING BACKGROUND. SHOT AT THE NY CITY MARATHON.
I suppose I should explain my own ideas of what I hope to capture with my better shots.
What I aim for, is create an emotional impression, and the first and most important part of that is composition. (I am actually always learning more about composition, it is the one area of photography in which I know I will always be learning.)
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Spot on. Composition is important. Its the tools for getting the message across, like the right words in a well written story. But like any ‘rules’ they can be bent. Creativity involves the use of old things in a new and effective way. Learn, learn, learn. When you stop you are dead.
Hi Mitchell
Nicely put. 14 is good. I can barely remember being that. When I was your age my old man would take me to the galleries and we would look at beautiful paintings. I would stare at a Monet or Streeton and say ‘that’s nice’ and he would say ‘that’s easy for a 14 year old to say’ and I would feel his hand shake and see a tear in his eye…[Read more]
I don’t think I could have said it any better, (but fools go where angels fear to tread).
Age does have some distinct advantages, (aside from aches, pains, failing memory, and proximity to death.) Amongst those are two very important ones:
1) Being comfortable in one’s own skin, (which is to say being a lot more accepting of the person one…[Read more]
Funny how photography leads to other paths. That’s heavy stuff. I could never get my head around Mahler (I’ve never had my duality collapsed into anything, let alone anything ecstatic – does it hurt?), Hesse never made it to my library and although VG was up there for me I was more into the Aussie impressionists. Still am.
I think we can move…[Read more]
Nothing wrong with an ego. Mine is still intact and I defend it at every turn.
I’m glad I didn’t know then what I know now. Nor would I give myself any of the things I value now. Growing up with a Box Brownie and taking pictures of the family at the beach was some of the most valuable experiences I have ever had. I’m still listening to Miles…[Read more]
I am too passionate by half at least. And truth which never could be framed alludes me, hence the frames without content which are the veils removed. And if ever truth unveiled shall greet me, all forms will lie dead and silent, for nothing will remain of self and other, only two mirrors facing with naught even of themselves to reflect or to…[Read more]
Whatever you’re smokin’ I want some.
It’s good stuff … (and makes the grass grow green.)