Who's the "*you*" you are so pompously trying to instruct and correct? I'm
dosk, and I didn't write any of what you quote me as saying below... Check
for the quote>> marks before you go off on such a high hat, superior
tangent! And I "Must Now" not do anything, just because you think and say I
should....
Skip
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: Basic Composition (was RE: OT: (Somewhat) Is this true foryou?)
> In a message dated 1/25/01 9:15:21 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << To me, you don't "compose" a photograph. The photograph composes itself
> and then you recognize later which photographs were successes.>>
>
> You must now find a better word for what we do, if not "compose." We
*never*
> deliberately point the camera at something and just shoot. We always look
> thought the viewfinder, if for no other reason than to see what's there.
Once
> our noses press into the camera, we begin to "edit" the scene, if not
> compose. We eliminate everything that does not, as you suggest "compose
> itself."
>
> > Lots of potentially honest photographs are ruined by intentional
> > "composition." >>
>
> Way too philosophical for me.
> We take series of images of scenes we like, changing perspectives,
distance,
> shooting a landscape one moment, macro the next.
> We hover over a flower for its detail, or stand and contemplate designs in
a
> bridge pylon. We orbit a bevy of flowers, stopping to "edit" what we've
seen.
> But we *never* just point and shoot, at least not we "serious"
photographers.
> *You* seem to think acts of deliberation are wasteful, or even
destructive.
> Some of us find the act of composition peaceful, inspiring even, the act
of
> editing or composing being in and of itself most times cathartic, serene,
> Zen.
> How then can or could "contemplation" or any act of introspection,
> photographic or not, be harmful, particularly since the "ruination" you
say
> is a sign of asperity is not evident?
> How then, can you infer that an act of quiet creation vis-a-vis
> "composition," (composing) be, at the same time, harmful?
>
> Mafud
> Zawadi Imaging & Media Company
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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