I forgot Bob's comment about Gallia. Thanks for pointing that out. -----Original Message----- From: steve harley <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:22:20 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Some thought on Craftsmanship vs. Professionalism
On 2011-04-12 20:58 , Jim King wrote: > This blog post by Erwin Puts rang a few bells for me, and I suspect it will > for some of you as well: > > http://www.imx.nl/photo/page152/page152.html\ okay -- i'll bite; i find Erwin Puts' essay to wishy-washy; it's internally contradictory; he seems to romanticize film process as if it were purely intuitive, yet he then warns against "common sense" Puts seems to define professionalism as technical mastery (to me it is as much about ethics, efficiency and emotional detachment), but accepting his definition, i would disagree with him overall that technical mastery must conflict with craft this is hardly unique to photography -- i think of how a grounding in CPU instruction sets and binary logic, of which i'm rarely conscious these days, gave me confidence and trained my mind for much more abstract programming; and i think of how my rudimentary technical knowledge of sailing has held me back despite a strong intuitive sense of the helm from an entire teen-hood of intense practice i think there are many valid paths; one wonders if Puts' self-expressed attunement to film and exposure came about without any rigorous technical work ... that can happen, but when it does it usually comes from intense, if intuitive, practice and/or that unconscious genius which silently computes and internalizes technical knowledge for a few lucky people (as it struck me when Bob Sullivan recently commented that Gallia's "gonna be mighty good by the time she's a teenager, and she won't really know why.") so genius can "take care of it", practice can breed intuition without technical understanding, and study of details can allow one to rise above details; or any combination thereof -- 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.
