Mafud ...
You just don't seem to grasp the concept that *you* think and
work differently than others. Not everyone sees things the way
you do, or needs or works with the same structure. Stop
painting your generalizations with so broad a brush.
Everything about you is different from me, and I'm different
from Mike, who's different from Bill. We all see things, and
experience things, differently.
--
Shel Belinkoff
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"The difference between a good photograph
and a great photograph is subtleties."
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>
> In a message dated 1/26/01 6:16:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> << To use > your analogy of writing music, or writing anything, many
> authors > have said that the words/music just flowed from them, as if
> > someone was writing through them, or as if the words were
> given > to them. >>
>
> Given? From whom? As a published writer and editor, I can tell you writing
> takes place in the head after hours, maybe years of study. the gist of any
> story, thesis, dissertation, novella or book, in whatever form, is the words
> we learn, all of them. They are personally inhaled by each of us, then
> cogitated, structured, formulated-essentially "composed" all in our brains.
> Months, years, hours, moments before the first legal tablet and fistful of
> No. 2 pencils are tossed on the table, the story, like dammed waters, waits
> within the brain of the writer to be born.
> A mental switch is thrown and the story *flows* out of the brain as from a
> wide-open tap.
> Like a photographer who *knows*0 the image s/he wants to shoot as they form
> the initial frame in his/her mind, then finds the image in their viewfinder.
> *There's a Hispanic church about four miles away. It has Spanish
> architecture. It sits in a low spot near the freeway where fog often gathers.
> On some days we get a condition where fog covers the church and little valley
> but the other fog, lifting, crowns the church with a glow, the barely risen
> sun blasting its way down through to light the church. I saw that some 30
> years ago.
> I have no idea of how many times I've attempted to get that same scene I saw
> so long ago I've shot the scene, with 500mm to 16mm. I've yet to recapture
> the church/fog as I first saw it so long ago. But that solitary image burns
> in my mind as if I's seen it on paper. Someday, when the fog is just right
> and the sun is just so, I'll be there, this time finger on the shutter...
>
> Some say their photography is spontaneous, extemporaneous, unplanned. I used
> to do that kind of shooting all the time:
> "grab" shots, "two" shots, "got to get the shot" shots. Hands over my head
> because there's a rush of people. The principals rush toward us, I have but a
> tiny window to shoot-wham! Shutter-button down-motor drive humming, I fired
> and composed at the same time...Photojournalism they call it.
>
> With that background in mind, on those when I am *not* acting as a PJ, my
> images are planned, as today. Thought about, if not for days, then seconds
> whenever or wherever the subject of my mental "composition" presents itself.
> Thought about while traveling cross-country at 3:30 am, trying on this
> aspicious morning to be in position along the freeway to catch that sunrise...
> "There's a shot" my mind says, and in the minutes, seconds it takes for me to
> prepare my camera for shooting, I'm looking, composing, determining where the
> sun is, where the shadows are falling, whether there are obstacles in my way;
> "can I make the shot" I ask myself, "before it (the long ago remembered
> scene) gets away."
>
> So yeah, I guess we all do a little off the cuff, "whip it out and let go"
> stuph but always, at least with the practiced photographer, always with a
> conscious thought to order, if not compose, the image.
>
> I will speak no more about composing forever.
> (At least not this particular thread). <g>
>
> Happy weekend!
> And since I'm from New York, "Go Xxxxxx!"
>
> Mafud
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