Den 31. mars 2011 kl. 19.39 skrev Collin Brendemuehl: > The question is: How do we better our photography and get past cliche > images? Can we take it more seriously without falling into either the trap > of elitism or the trap of demanding a certain level of commitment from > others? (That's the motivation behind my recent technical criticisms. We > can do better without burning ourselves out.)
I´ve been through lots of books, thoughts, cliches and ambitions but I think I have ended up with something very simple (or maybe not): - I relax taking pictures. It makes me think of something else and looking for things or situations that interests me. - I am in many ways a restless person, I don´t like doing the same thing twice, so I guess that makes me avoid the cliches I have photographed before (but if I find a new cliche I will try it). - I also found that as I take pictures of things that I find interesting the pictures becomes kind of an introspective tour. There´s some weird humor here, like looking into a distorted mirror, but also a test made on my youngest boy and his slightly strange visual talent made me look again. - And I like the philosophical parts of photography, the idea of capturing the moment you choose, and doing that making that moment or subject in some way more important than all the others. Sometimes it is strange to see which moments I chose to remember. - And of course I like having people look at them, sometime surprising them or see things from another angle, but even if I can imaging closing the web site and stop showing the pictures I can´t imagine not taking pictures... So I guess I just take pictures, and sometimes I try to find out why :-) DagT -- 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.
