[Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

In photography there is always going to be a faction which says the more
mindless you are in your work the closer you are to god.
This gets them off the hook because as serious hobbies go their rather
collect stamps.
To me and many a small camera demands more technique not less.
With a big camera on a tripod I can get lazy.
Output from 35mm has to be made from a spotless neg which has been processed
with just the right stuff.


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Mark William Rabiner
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> From: Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 17:43:57 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 31
> 
> 2011-01-04-15:13:19 Bill Pearce:
> (on extremely technically-rigorous view-camera shooting)
>> In my experience, I have found that it takes a very special unusual person
>> to be able to apply that level of technical regidity in a way that does 
>> not
>> sap the life from art.
> 
> I've found, many of the times I've ventured out even with just what the
> view-camera prople would refer to derisively as a "box camera", but
> toting a good sturdy tripod and such, determined thet I'd take
> technically-excellent landscapes, that the resultant images were
> well-exposed and sharp...  and just lay there, devoid of life or interest.
> 
> I think it's partly that it's hard to keep technical rigor from
> occluding fluidity of vision.  (Hard doesn't mean that it's completely
> impossible or not worthwhile, just that it won't come easily.  It'll
> probably only come when the technical stuff is so well internalized
> that it happens without having to be the primary thing you're paying
> attention to.)
> 
> I think it's also that I'm not intrinsically nearly as interested in
> landscapey stuff as in people.  I was trying to force it, and
> predictably that failed.
> 
> So... I mostly cheat by taking pictures of people, because they
> actually interest me.  That's a big advantage.  But I still take
> pictures outside if some aspect of the light or the forms attracts me,
> because you shouldn't give up on something just because you aren't
> immediately good at it.  You have to do it to get better.  Maybe
> that'll happen with me.
> 
>  -Jeff
> 
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