My father always preached to me, "The harder you work, the luckier you get."
Stan Halpin wrote:
> Yes Tanya - I wasn't very clear in my comments, but in a back-handed way it
> was complimentary. I agree with Mark's comments (which I alluded to) about
> the marvelous shot you had on your page recently. Your self-deprecating
> remark at the time about how little time/effort was involved made me want to
> thump you on the head (figuratively speaking). If you are so blessed as to
> be able to produce such a wonderful image, why denigrate it? No work
> involved you say? Just luck you say? Nonsense.
> I will grant that sometimes people get lucky. But people who seem to be
> consistently lucky probably have something else going for them, like talent.
> It wasn't luck that had you recognize the moment, that caused you to compose
> and frame the shot the way you did, that led you to pick that frame from
> among the 35 others on the roll, . . .
>
> You and Shel both seem to belong to the old Puritan School of Photography
> and Life: "if you don't work hard for what you get, then what you get is
> nothing but a gift from the devil! You must work!" {Corollary: if you use an
> auto-focus lens, a built-in light meter, a motor drive, and/or color film
> processed by someone else then you haven't worked hard enough to "deserve" a
> good image.}
>
> Stan
>
> > Stan wrote:
> >
> > "1. One part of the criticism I saw quoted was to the effect that it is
> > harder to take pictures like this that show peoples faces. Implied judgment
> > that harder is better. In this Shel is joining Tanya in a very strange world
> > view that equates quality of outcome to effort required. Remember Tanya's
> > reaction to Mark's positive judgment of her one portrait? He said: "you
> > could charge $500 for that one image . . .", she said "Oh, but I just took
> > that, it didn't take any time at all!" So what Shel? So what Tanya? I will
> > judge the image by what it does for me, thank you very much, not by what you
> > did or didn't do to put it in front of me. "
> >
> > Urrrm, thanks, Stan, I think?!? I guess I'll take that as a compliment (and
> > a wake up call) hehe....8-)
> >
> > Tanya.
> >
>
> >
>
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