Ken do you, also, apply this philosophy to your photography? Helpful hint: In order to do this, I've found it necessary to limit my martini's.
Jack --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ken Waller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Show, or hide? > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, February 21, 2011, 9:52 AM > > Mostly I try to show what I want > to show and not show what I don't want to show. > > Mark ! > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" > <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Show, or hide? > > > > On 20/02/2011 7:44 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> I've been thinking about how I compose shots, and > I've realized that I often go to more effort to hide things > that I think will detract from the shot, than I do trying to > make everything that I might want is visible. I'd often > rather do two "detail" photos, each with a clean background, > rather than one photo with everything in it, if the > background has something I don't like. > >> > >> However, I often spend a lot of time trying to > compose my photos with two thematically contrasting objects, > so I don't only think about hiding things, but what I'm > showing as well. > >> > >> When you compose shots, do you think that your > style is more about showing things, or hiding things? > >> > >> c > > > > Wow! > > You probably have no idea what a big question that > it. > > Mostly I try to show what I want to show and not show > what I don't want to show. > > > > > > -- > > William Robb > > > -- 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. > -- 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.
