On 13 May 2010 12:54, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting discussion, Tom. > > One thing I have found very interesting is to see what others think > of my pictures versus what I think of them. Many times some of the > things mentioned come into play as individuals like or dislike (less > like?) an image. One aspect that comes into play for me is how hard > I had to work to get the image - basically a difficulty factor. If I > didn't have to do anything (relatively speaking), then the image has > less meaning for me. > > I have a daughter who is one of those geniuses when it comes to music > and performing on the viola - because she doesn't have to work at it, > she values the skill/gift less. Much like if I don't have to work at > a photo, I deem it to be less. Yet someone else, hearing her play > may be totally blown away and very impressed. So too, can a photo I > didn't have to 'try' to capture, impress someone else. > > What I am trying to say, I think, is that perceived value comes into > play as to our appreciation of the image - and that is one of the > reasons that one person will like an image and another will not care > so much. > > Anyway, just some random thoughts floating around in my head. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce
Bruce, To continue your music analogy, there are certain musicians that are very well known amongst other musicians because they are technically very proficient and can play very fast, or perform extremely difficult pieces with apparent ease. Thing is, most of these musicians actually suck at creating good, memorable music. Who's the crappiest musician around (from a technical point of view) that's made the most memorable music over the past 5 decades? Bob Dylan. Onto photography: It's not only the person taking the photo who values the work that goes into it, others do to. There are many photographers out there pedalling Fine Art Photographs taken with ancient cameras and processes. They make sure to let you know how difficult it is to shoot these cameras and generate the exposures in order to get that historic look. They charge accordingly too. Many people will buy into this way of thinking and plonk down significant cash for otherwise boring images that you or I could've made with a P&S and a Photoshop filter. My BSograph goes off the charts when I come across these types, because I believe the value of a photograph is in the content, not the making of. I ain't gonna buy your photo of a blade of grass just because you exposed a slice of bread covered in albumen inside a pinhole box using moonlight on Ansel Adams's birthday. But that's just my opinion. And you know what they say about those: http://www.whattheduck.net/strip/324-sunday Cheers, --M. -- \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
