On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:10 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A photographer I know who makes a living selling her butterfly macro photos > traps them & puts them in the refrigerator until she's ready to photograph > them. > > Doesn't do them any harm, but slows them down for a while so they're a > little easier to capture photographically. She's got a garden full of the > kinds of plants that naturally attracts them, so she's got the appropriate > backgrounds ready at hand. If it works for her, that's great. I suppose that for me, an amateur, photography is a game. In the same way that I try to do certain things with my "street" photography, I play games with my nature photography. I prefer to take pix of animals, birds and bugs in their natural environment, doing whatever it is they do in real life. In other words, I want to take their photos going about their day to day business, as if I weren't there. That's the fun (and challenge) of it for me. That's not to criticize your friend. As long as she does no harm, whatever gets the best photo for her purpose is great. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
