----- Original Message -----
From: "Pål Jensen"
Subject: Re: AA bis
I know it will be different. Learning THAT could easily be achieved by
trying to reshoot one of you own (successful) images. You will learn much
more from that. Learning technique could be easily learned by not copying
someone elses creativity.
Out of curiosity, how does one master technique without trying to emulate a
known benchmark?
This is about the creative aspect of creating an image. You'll never be
more than a mediocre photographer by blatantly copying someone elses work.
What if a very good photographer happenned to decide, on a lark, to try to
emulate one of the works of one of the masters?
Is he no longer a very good photographer?
You are treating this as if this is the only picture these people have shot
(the ones that were the subject of this discussion originally). You don't
know jack squat about the work this group of photographers has done in the
past, instead you judge them as creative photographers soley on what is, at
best, a form of going to church.
That hardy seems fair.
William Robb
