Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: What makes a good photo, by Ted Grant
From: "julianthomas.terra.es" <julianthomas@terra.es>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:14:14 +0100
References: <20010127032947.BCE11834.femail11.sdc1.sfba.home.com@[65.1.114.25]> <3A72495E.D8898E1E@earthlink.net> <200101271751.JAA23564@spoon.alink.net>

> >And when this happens, one doesn't need to get all gushy assed with
theory
> >and what to read into it.... it's just a simple damn good picture in yer
> >face! Words and fancy assed word cleverism doesn't do one iota in making
the
> >picture any better!  If the picture doesn't stand on it's own, all the
fancy
> >wordsmithing isn't going to save it nor make it any better!
> >
Ok I suppose i started this (bloody stupid thing to do)... How about the
photo in the last Magnum exhibition of blood-spattered footprints in the
snow? Crap photo, boring. Until you see the caption 'Bosnia', means
something else, huh?

I've wasted so many years of my life trying to teach guitarists who say 'uh,
I want to express myself man, I don't need more than two chords, i just
wanna play what i feel' and then spend the rest of their lives boring
everyone to death.
And photography isn't a brain thing!!?? Exposure, focus, don't have the
foreground out of focus, zone focus, what am a trying to say? oh yeah click.
The key is balance. A good photo is one that you can look at again and
again. I've got Tina's The Blessing on my wall and i look at that everyday
and see something new. Now I'm not suggesting that you go through some kind
of academic exercise before clicking the shutter, but the brain stuff is
there, in balance. What happens when you click when you feel like it and
come back with crap? Some one says, 'have you thought about this, or
that?'..
Oh and by the way, i'm getting married... what Leica shall i use...

Julian

Replies: Reply from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: What makes a good photo, by Ted Grant)
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