Oh man, I forgot to say hello yesterday. THIS IS UNFORGIVABLE!!!
So hello (twice) to my little friends in my s*** list.
I have been really busy yesterday between computer repairs (3) and reloading one from ground up. MS drives me crazy, about 8 hours of DLs, updates and service pack and..... MORE updates!!! arf... no end to this crap it seems.
I am also in the process a creating a meet-up over photography and that is taking time too... result? I am a day late and a dollar short here...
To start to prepare myself I fired up my laptop and *boink* said the HDD. I had one available and restored it. Since this thing is about 3 years old, the HDD should have lasted much longer so on to get a replacement from Seagate.
And I just realized that I am impolite to those who are not on my S*** list. So, hello to you all.
For the meet-up group I wrote an about statement that I titled 'Philosophy' instead of about. Must have made a difference because all of a sudden I have more folks signing up for the group and coming to the first meeting in 10 days. I'll see the real trend over time.
My philosophy? It will offend many here but hey, if you have a thin skin, what can I do?
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Philosophy statement
Photography is much more than technology.
Before anything else, photography is a way to communicate a vision that by-pass languages, breaks communication barriers. It does for our eyes what music does for our ears, food to... You get the picture.
While technology helps us more and more it is not a priority. The only thing you need to know at first is your camera, its limitations as well as what it does and why. The technical 'how' is unimportant, almost superfluous. Yet, at one point or another, you will need to learn it.
Vision is always the keyword, no matter what you intend to do. As an 'old school photographer' it is all that matters. I really do not care about post processing (PP) simply because PP becomes a lazy way to make (not take) a picture. The mentality right now is: It does not cost anything so shoot as many pictures as you can, sooner than later you will hit the jackpot, when I hear this, I cringe as I translate it to sift though garbage and hope for the best. Photographers that 'work' this way are not photographers, they are garbage collectors.
PP has it uses, an important one, but as part of your vision, not as part of correcting a photographer's lack of skill. One cannot make a bad image good, regardless of all the manipulations and how good one is in PP.
PP is a great tool to make a 'good' picture, otherwise flat, into something that is a work of art.
In short, learn to see, to capture, to transcend your feelings and your point of view so that you share your vision with your selected audience that be family, close friends or the rest of the world.way to communicate a vision that by-pass languages, breaks communication barriers. It does for our eyes what music does for our ears, food to... You get the picture.
While technology helps us more and more it is not a priority. The only thing you need to know at first is your camera, its limitations as well as what it does and why. The technical 'how' is unimportant, almost superfluous. Yet, at one point or another, you will need to learn it.
Vision is always the keyword, no matter what you intend to do. As an 'old school photographer' it is all that matters. I really do not care about post processing (PP) simply because PP becomes a lazy way to make (not take) a picture. The mentality right now is: It does not cost anything so shoot as many pictures as you can, sooner than later you will hit the jackpot, when I hear this, I cringe as I translate it to sift though garbage and hope for the best. Photographers that 'work' this way are not photographers, they are garbage collectors.
PP has it uses, an important one, but as part of your vision, not as part of correcting a photographer's lack of skill. One cannot make a bad image good, regardless of all the manipulations and how good one is in PP.
PP is a great tool to make a 'good' picture, otherwise flat, into something that is a work of art.
In short, learn to see, to capture, to transcend your feelings and your point of view so that you share your vision with your selected audience that be family, close friends or the rest of the world.
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