One man's Fine Art is another man's CRAP. If you want to call dead
leaves Fine Art, it's OK by me, but I may or may not agree. Now...about
those naked chicks on the train tracks.....
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On 8/14/2012 9:28 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Zach Arias has been on a roll answering good questions with practical
advice on his Q&A blog. But he really steps out on a limb with this
one I think.
"And oh dear please…. please. For the love of all that is good and
holy about photography… please don’t be the “fine art” photographer
that shoots flowers, and dead leaves, and macro shots of bark, and
hang them in your local coffee house. You know what I’m talking about.
Photo 101 assignments passed off as “fine art”. Ain’t nothing fine art
about that stuff.
Fine. Call me a jerk. You know what I’m talking about. Canoes on a
lake. A bike leaning against a red door with a little green ivy
sneaking in the corner. An old mailbox on a dusty road. A model mayhem
beauty queen wearing a Victorian dress and a German gas mask… in a
cemetery. A coffee cup on an old book. An HDR’ed lighthouse at sunset.
An HDR’ed macro shot of your cat’s eye. Don’t get me started on naked
chicks on train tracks or laying on rocks."
I resemble that remark. :-)
http://zarias.tumblr.com/post/29385173306/can-i-be-a-fine-art-photographer-gallery-circuit-and
[Not safe for those with high blood pressure who are easily offended.]
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