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Jan 7, 2017 12:35:54   #
oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA
 
Leitz wrote:
... I believe that if one needs to see a picture someone else has taken in order to become inspired to pick up their camera, they cannot have a passion for the art and likely never will. ....

And conversely those who find an inspiration to shoot only from personal insight
will probably never learn to exploit the common market base.

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Jan 7, 2017 12:37:27   #
EdR Loc: Gig Harbor, WA
 
I enjoyed both the Joy and More Joy books. Learned from them and still have them. First camera was a Brownie Hawkeye kit with flash that I won at a movie house drawing. Had a hard time taking a picture out the high windows of the Texas monument because I couldn't see the viewfinder. Looked like a drunken pilot took them.😏

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Jan 7, 2017 12:48:17   #
Ricker Loc: Salt Lake City, Utah
 
Agreed...I also am worried abou Long Term Survival of digital images. I presume that leaving jPegs on an external disc drive is a logical attempt to preserve them.. I guess only time will tell. Ricker

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Jan 7, 2017 12:59:11   #
Leitz Loc: Solms
 
oldtigger wrote:
And conversely those who find an inspiration to shoot only from personal insight
will probably never learn to exploit the common market base.

Neither will those who do not have the passion!

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Jan 7, 2017 13:01:21   #
Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA
 
I'm pretty sure you are wrong. All artists in every form of art start by learning from and copying the work of others. And they take inspiration from the work and styles of other artists whose work they admire. The same holds true for athletes, businessmen, people in every walk of life. Someone else can always do it better than you, so you learn from those with greater talent that you admire.
And passion doesn't have to exist in a vacuum. Don't you think the Rolling Stones and the Beatles had a passion for music? Yet they started covering the songs of recording artists they admired.

Leitz wrote:
Please read the comment I replied to. I believe that if one needs to see a picture someone else has taken in order to become inspired to pick up their camera, they cannot have a passion for the art and likely never will. I hope I am wrong on that last point.

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Jan 7, 2017 13:10:51   #
Ricker Loc: Salt Lake City, Utah
 
It's true in many cases that artists, athletes etc. are initially inspired by those who have already achieved success however it's also true that many of the "greats" evolved in a manner quite unique and achieved even greater heights of success because they elected to strike out on their own rather than continue "copying" those whose style they had emulated.

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Jan 7, 2017 13:16:41   #
Light Chaser Loc: PNW
 
One of my favorite things to do is to go to my local used book store and try to score on classic old photography books. I remember "The Joy of Photography" and several others that had a wealth of information for the student of photography.

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Jan 7, 2017 13:17:33   #
fhayes Loc: Madison, Tennessee
 
I have read so many photo books, I feel like an old library. Don't remember what my first camera was but it was a Kodak with a top viewer. At 12 my sisters husband gave me a Leica, it was wonderful! Years later I bought a Minolta srt100, they therw in a 50mm lens and it and I were buddies for 25 years and it went on a shelf because my wife bought a Kodak easy share. On to a Nikon D90, then back to the srt for photography class, next a Mamiya RB67, then another and most of the lenses. One more D90! Finally a Nikon D800! On a day I want to take some serious photographs, I take the Mamiya and a few rolls of film...

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Jan 7, 2017 13:24:12   #
SharpShooter Loc: NorCal
 
Mogul wrote:
Yeah, me too. It was a real bummer because I just HAD to wear loafers.


Mogul, you could afford loafers....., you guys must have been rich!!! LoL
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Jan 7, 2017 13:26:55   #
SharpShooter Loc: NorCal
 
Rongnongno wrote:
The old days are always 'good' because we have a tendency to forget the bad.

'Hey' when I was ten

'Good old days' indeed...


YOU WERE TEN?!?!?!
And I thought you were BORN OLD!!!!
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Jan 7, 2017 13:36:41   #
Bobspez Loc: Southern NJ, USA
 
Quite true. The Beatles and Stones flowered when they started writing their own songs, rather than covering others. But how many of us are in that class of great artists or ever will be? There's hundreds of thousands of musicians in the world and a handful of greats in the past 100 years. Same is true for all the arts. When I took a class in oil painting, we all copied a well known piece, and we learned a lot more than splashing paint on canvas. Learning to play music I copied songs I liked. My versions would never sell a single record, let alone millions. To say I don't have a passion for what I do is certainly wrong. To quote Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry character, "a man has got to know his limitations." Those that don't, don't reach the stars, they live in fantasy land.

Ricker wrote:
It's true in many cases that artists, athletes etc. are initially inspired by those who have already achieved success however it's also true that many of the "greats" evolved in a manner quite unique and achieved even greater heights of success because they elected to strike out on their own rather than continue "copying" those whose style they had emulated.

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Jan 7, 2017 13:59:07   #
Leitz Loc: Solms
 
Bobspez wrote:
I'm pretty sure you are wrong. All artists in every form of art start by learning from and copying the work of others. And they take inspiration from the work and styles of other artists whose work they admire. The same holds true for athletes, businessmen, people in every walk of life. Someone else can always do it better than you, so you learn from those with greater talent that you admire.
And passion doesn't have to exist in a vacuum. Don't you think the Rolling Stones and the Beatles had a passion for music? Yet they started covering the songs of recording artists they admired.
I'm pretty sure you are wrong. All artists in ever... (show quote)

Don't give up, I'm confident that one of these days you will go out and actually take some pictures without having to look outside yourself for inspiration. And when that day comes, LOOK OUT WORLD!!

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Jan 7, 2017 13:59:27   #
SharpShooter Loc: NorCal
 
You bring to the act of photography, all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard and the people you have loved!!!

I've seen that somewhere...., oh yea...., it's my tag-line!! From A.A.

That pretty much sums it up. You are inspired by everything and everyone in your life and we probably will never even know how they affect our outcomes, photographically or otherwise!
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Jan 7, 2017 14:03:07   #
Rongnongno Loc: FL
 
Bobspez wrote:
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It is not good to know your own limits as you automatically belittle yourself. 'Oh that is not for me'. It is better to acknowledge the limits and say 'screw it'.

Those who do not know their limits essentially have no boundaries to stop them. They do not even know they are 'reaching for the stars'.

The stars are for the dreamers, the 'fantasy land folks' who say 'screw common sense' and go for it. Few will make it but those who do will sacred 'greats' or whatever but the reality is what made the difference is not their success but their willingness to take and assume risks.

Too many unsung heroes in our lives.

Think of the folks with down syndrome that are capable to live normal lives simply no one told them 'You have limits you must live within'. This goes for many other folks that have any kind of physical/mental impediments yet live the way they want to, not the way we 'expect' them to. These are the unsung heroes, the real 'stars'.

As to 'reaching a class of artists'... In whose eyes? Yours? Mine? Appreciation of one's work is a personal thing. Adulation (as for the group mentioned) is driven by hysteria, nothing else. Reach a critical mass and you are 'it' until folks get tired of you.

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Jan 7, 2017 14:11:17   #
AlanD Loc: TC, MN
 
I should mention how we bought our house, 30 years ago... We looked at three houses in the neighborhood on the same day. Two had dark rooms in the basement. We bid on ours expecting it to have one of the dark rooms, but after our bid was accepted and were looking at our purchase, I grabbed my wife's elbow and said, "Where's the dark room?"

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