This is a posting I made on Slashdot, and I thought it was worth archiving the thought. It's not that I don't value darkroom or PhotoShop work, it's just that I value what happens between the photographer and the camera more....
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Re:The Way to Learn Photography (Score:2)
by ajs (35943) <ajs&ajs,com> on Monday June 20, @08:17AM (#12861955) (http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/ | Last Journal: Tuesday April 12, @01:37PM) |
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"Learning darkroom technique teaches masking and burning which, for me, is the magic touch of photography." I find this statement emblematic of your post. Isn't the "magic touch" of photography the act of recording an image on some sort of media? Anything beyond that is called painting in my book (and, I don't care if you do it in a lab or in PhotoShop). Of course, there are "painting" techniques that need to be learned, but the fundamentals are all about learning how, when and why to point and shoot. The how is a mechanical process that involves everything about your gear; the when is a matter of composition and understanding the physical as well as aesthetic and emotional content of your pictures; and the why personal... it cannot be taught. What you do after pressing the button is interesting (and an art form unto itself), but is NOT what I consider photography to be all about. IMHO, the purest form of photography would be practiced WITHOUT film in the camera, but that's perhaps a tad too detached.... -- Aaron Sherman. like number problems? I type fast, and stop calling me cowboy |
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