On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I was recently chatting with someone about photography and he also > > mentioned that for him, it's all about the process. Once he has the > > pictures, they don't mean a lot to him, he just enjoys the process of making > > photos. The implication being that, like me, he wants to make great photos, > > but he doesn't have much desire to sit around looking at his own photos once > > he's done with them. > > > > My point is that months, or years, after working on, or last looking at, > > a photo it is much easier to judge it objectively, looking at it with > > fresher eyes. > > Your last point is important. > > I look at my finished work regularly. I look at my work immediately > after I've completed a shoot to see what hits my mind's eye > immediately. Then I look at it again, both the finished and the raw > work, several months later—and usually find more to work on, and edit > out some of the first hits that didn't really work past the first > blush. Then I make something of it. Then I look at that over and over > and over again as I seek to understand what it is and how to improve > it. > > I have my photos streamed, randomly, to the television in the living > room and often spend hours, off and on, looking at them while > listening to music or reading a book. > > Over time, I see where things are strong and where things are weak. I > then work on strengthening the weak parts by going back in and working > on the photos again ... > > And so on. > > The process is important. The finished results are more important. > Improving on the finished results is most important, in the next > project. You don't get better at things without practice and studying > what you did wrong.
Or to put in engineering terms: there's no feedback loop until you take some of the output and feed it back into the input, recursively. Maybe you'd relate to that better, Larry. :-) -- -bmw -- 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.
