Nah, I don't need no stinking pratice. Oh, by the way, can you
tell me why my prints don't look like those I saw in that
museum? The ones by Adam or something like that?
More seriously. You can have all the knowledge in the world, but
it takes pratice to turn it into a skill. Only, I kind of
thought that most folk here on PDML get a lot of practice.
I was thinking the other day, why do we talk so much about
cameras and so little about photography? My conclusion was that
it is hard to talk about something that is so essensually
visual. A glance at a photo can tell us an immense amout about
the skill and artistic ability of a photographer, but talking
never really does.
--Tom
Bob Walkden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I feel that photographic composition is a matter of seeing. If
> > you look at enough good pictures you are going to pick it up by
> > osmosis. We that live in big cities also have public libraries
> [...]
>
> seeing and doing.
>
> You've got to take photos too, and you've got to believe they're
> almost all crap, rather than convince yourself that they're brilliant.
> Once you realise they're crap you've got to ask yourself why they're
> not as good as Ansel's or Hank's or Wonderful Eugene's or
> whomsoever's.
>
> Concert musicians practice for hours each day, at least to begin with.
> Great photographers take pictures all the time, hundreds of them, at
> least to begin with. It's dull but true that practice makes perfect.
> But not always.
>
> Sometimes you can practice and practice, the way I used to on the guitar,
> and never get good, the way I never did. Sometimes it's best just to quit.
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