Slow Brain Sunday

[madshutterbug]

I am tired today, so whatever I'm doing, I'm doing slow. Worked last night at Hospital, came home, few hour nap as usual. Surprise visit today from Herself's middle brother, his partner and their children. Youngest is about 3 I think, and had great joy meeting goats. Some of the goats reciprocated, most maybe not, and she still found great joy.

Quote:
And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they’re easier to use, but creating great images isn’t about the tools. - Jerry Uelsmann

Mr Uelsmann is somewhat well known for his specific works, and for opening a realm of vision for us all. He's been asked if he intends to learn the digital manipulation skills and declined; how and what he does works for him, and he doesn't wish to change at this point in his life. There are a lot of quotes from him I ponder periodically, and this one resonates with me because it touches my foundation lessons from Dad. First, learn to compose a photograph. Then, learn to control the aperture and shutter speed. Then, learn to print...

First: see a photograph, an image.

Comments

[azhdragon.livejournal.com]

I like that quote.

I belong to a few photo communities on LJ, and sometimes I look at the photos posted and think "why would you take a photograph of that, let alone display it for the 'world' to see?"

Ok. so I get the odd bum photo - someone moved, something was not quite right, the settings on the camera were wrong. You get that. But I delete those photos; I don't put them up for the world.

I guess I'm lucky, in that photography runs in our veins in my family. My grandmother owned and ran a photography studio. For myself, I took photography courses in high school and learned the technical side of the SLR, as well as how to develop my films.

In some ways, the digital age makes it almost too easy to take photos. Two of my grandchildren are regular photographers, having been snapping away since they were 3 and 2, respectively. Lots of odd shots of feet, of people with no heads, of the under side of the table. But then, they are little kids. As they grow older, they will hopefully realise there's more than just "point and click and hope for the best".

I'm hoping in the future to build up a studio and do more by way of formal shots. But that will have to wait till there's a space I can dedicate to it. In the meantime, I read photography books and magazines ... and take the occasional photo. :-)