Don't want to be just a shooter
Feb 17, 2012 01:08:07 #
Dont want to be just a shooter:
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
Feb 17, 2012 01:39:00 #
Art is anything you find interesting and anything you want show the world. There are many styles and formats. What makes you feel?
This image says something to me. I consider this my art.
This image says something to me. I consider this my art.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Jellies
Feb 17, 2012 02:47:01 #
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Feb 17, 2012 03:17:39 #
Feb 17, 2012 03:30:25 #
Art is in, either the eye of the beholder, or the mind of the artist. These days, an artist is very loosely defined.
As it should be.
I am an old mechanic with an education in art at an ancient age. When I studied art an expensive art school, paid by me as an old man, I "graduated" when I threw my "advisers" out of my studio and life.
Right or wrong who is to tell?
Madness often wins.
As it should be.
I am an old mechanic with an education in art at an ancient age. When I studied art an expensive art school, paid by me as an old man, I "graduated" when I threw my "advisers" out of my studio and life.
Right or wrong who is to tell?
Madness often wins.
Dietxanadu wrote:
Dont want to be just a shooter:
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
Feb 17, 2012 05:59:09 #
like the jellyfish good comp.
are anythese catch youre for artistic's
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are anythese catch youre for artistic's
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Feb 17, 2012 06:07:27 #
Roger Hicks
Loc: Aquitaine
Dietxanadu wrote:
Dont want to be just a shooter:
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
If you don't see anything in fine art, how can you possibly aspire to creating it?
How do you know that you mother was an artist, or that your sons are? If you do know, then you must already have some kind of working definition of art. What is it?
Go to photo galleries (and indeed any art galleries). Ask yourself what you like, and why.
Until you can begin to answer these questions -- no-one ever finishes answering them -- it will be hard to move forward.
Cheers,
R.
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Feb 17, 2012 06:57:37 #
One of the best books I've read is The Art of Photography by Bruce Barnbaum, and I also read most of Bryan Peterson's books on how a camera really operates. Bryans books are easy to understand and have answered all of my questions on how to achieve any type of photo I want to take, then Bruce Barnbaum applies the art or the how to capture the mood of the shot.
Dietxanadu wrote:
Dont want to be just a shooter:
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
Feb 17, 2012 19:47:17 #
julesreyesmarko wrote:
Art is anything you find interesting and anything you want show the world. There are many styles and formats. What makes you feel?
This image says something to me. I consider this my art.
This image says something to me. I consider this my art.
To bad, but you asked.
Sunsets
The look someone gives me during last rights
Pictures of my dogs playing (they forgive me)
Lets not go any further, OK
Diet the
Feb 17, 2012 19:53:16 #
Dietxanadu wrote:
To bad, but you asked.
Sunsets
The look someone gives me during last rights
Pictures of my dogs playing (they forgive me)
Lets not go any further, OK
Diet the
julesreyesmarko wrote:
Art is anything you find interesting and anything you want show the world. There are many styles and formats. What makes you feel?
This image says something to me. I consider this my art.
This image says something to me. I consider this my art.
To bad, but you asked.
Sunsets
The look someone gives me during last rights
Pictures of my dogs playing (they forgive me)
Lets not go any further, OK
Diet the
well got any better idea of you're term of art yet
Feb 17, 2012 20:04:28 #
Roger Hicks wrote:
quote=Dietxanadu Dont want to be just a shooter:... (show quote)
R: Tuff question, but right to the point.
If you don't see anything in fine art, how can you possibly aspire to creating it?
My mom and dad had this painting in the living room. I would listen to what people said about the painting and how it moved them. But to me it was just a sad person.
This may have been after a truck running a red light got me in the cross walks. So things were a bit foggy after that.
How do you know that you mother was an artist, or that your sons are?
Well the way they talk about art. They always seem to have a drawing board and pencil in hand. Others enjoy there art and they are paid.
If you do know, then you must already have some kind of working definition of art. What is it?)
I guess if someone like it and it makes them happy.
Go to photo galleries (and indeed any art galleries). Ask yourself what you like, and why. Until you can begin to answer these questions -- no-one ever finishes answering them -- it will be hard to move forward.
Maybe there is room in life for another Shooter?
Thank you for taking the time to write.
Diet
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Feb 17, 2012 20:39:32 #
Find your Passion and let your heart follow it.
I always hated for decades to alter my images. Today I love being able to take a so so shot and turn it into something brand new in appearances.
I always hated for decades to alter my images. Today I love being able to take a so so shot and turn it into something brand new in appearances.
Black Butterfly From the Butterfly Series
Feb 17, 2012 20:42:20 #
good question... i think you are born an artist. in other words i think it's nature over nurture. having said that, you can learn to be a good artist, but never a great artist. just my opinion. this is why there are very few great photographers and 50 million good ones.
Dietxanadu wrote:
Dont want to be just a shooter:
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
I am trying so hard to be more of an artist and not just a shooter. But sometimes I just get wiped out by the whole thing and just shoot. My mom was an artist and so are both of my sons. I look at fine art and dont see anything.
I do read the photo magazines and any books I fine. But they dont seem to teach one to be an artist.
Anyone have any ideas on how one can become a artist?
Feb 17, 2012 20:50:17 #
I beg to differ. I think almost EVERYONE has the potential to create art, they just need a good reason and have a desire to express it.
I also think of all the arts photography is the easiest. Because in a way it is more about capturing something that is already there....you just have to see it.
Here is the best tip I can give you. When you look out into your world take notice of what pleases you or disturbs you if thats your deal...for me..I want to see the beauty out there...then try to capture it. Not all art of course is beauty
some is quite hidious but still art. Look think then try to express the feeling that is inspired.....hope that helps.
I also think of all the arts photography is the easiest. Because in a way it is more about capturing something that is already there....you just have to see it.
Here is the best tip I can give you. When you look out into your world take notice of what pleases you or disturbs you if thats your deal...for me..I want to see the beauty out there...then try to capture it. Not all art of course is beauty
some is quite hidious but still art. Look think then try to express the feeling that is inspired.....hope that helps.
Histogram wrote:
good question... i think you are born an artist. i... (show quote)
Feb 17, 2012 21:06:16 #
Histogram wrote:
good question... i think you are born an artist. in other words i think it's nature over nurture. having said that, you can learn to be a good artist, but never a great artist. just my opinion. this is why there are very few great photographers and 50 million good ones.
Histogram, I certainly respect your opinion on this, but I do think that appreciation for art is an emotional experience. SOMETHING in what you're looking at "talks" to you. I believe it is incumbent upon the artist to listen longer than anyone else. Those 50 million good photographers just aren't stopping long enough to fully appreciate what they are looking at. If you listen to some of those "few great photographers", when they talk on the subject of composition, they readily tell you that they have to "feel" the shot when they start composing it. One of my personal favorites is Moose Peterson (you may not think as much of him as I, but that's okay), and this guy gets passionate about describing the composition of a particular image of his.
I believe the "art" in photography can be developed, but you have to listen to what the scene in front of you is saying. The longer you listen, the more you learn about it.
Somebody please tell me there's some truth in this, because like the OP, I want to leave something that someone will eventually say, "Wow! That guy really knew what he was doing!".
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