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From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you knew anything about AA's working process from start to finish, you
would have shut up about five posts ago.
I know enough after owning and reading his three books the camera, the
negative and the print....
This isn't about technique but the creative process of taking an image.
The are litterally billions of images not yet shot, many of them surpassing
what Ansel did. Why not try to shoot on of those? You'll never be a good
photographer by copying someone elses work. You may learn technique but that
can be learned without copying the creative process.
I read somewhere a story about images submitted to National Geographic. They
were all carbon copies of well known images from well known photographers
shot in the very tripod holes in the "same" light. They were all returned
with a stern note that they were all crap in spite of being technically
perfect.
Pål
