on 2012-08-11 9:43 Boris Liberman wrote
Consider this - in general people don't fly. Yet they take wonderful landscape
photos. But if people could fly as easily as they walk, they might have been
able to make even better landscape photos. Or may be not.
as it happens, fresh from Goodwill i've got _Under the Sun_, by Adriel Heisey,
photos of the Sonoran Desert taken by an pilot who's also a very good
photographer; it's actually one of the more stimulating landscape books i've
seen in a while (and i've seen a fair amount of aerial art photography)
it's doubly on topic because he shot with Pentax gear (Pentax 67 and 645N), and
specifically discusses the relationship between gear and creativity; he favors
the 645N "because of its superior electronic controls. Having labored for years
without their benefit, I heartily embrace autofocus, autoexposure,
autobracketing and motor drive technology. In an environment where
opportunities are brief and unique, systems that work quickly, accurately and
dependably are priceless. They foster, rather than usurp, creativity."
he also carries ten lenses on board, and "I use all of them on almost every
flight. I shoot eight rolls of film on a typical sortie, and since I change
both lenses and film on my lap in the open wind, I've learned the value of
mindfulness."
he closes the book:
"Good apparatus liberates the imagination—but it may also capture it.
Technology is beguiling, and it can refract the spiritual rhumb line of the
hardiest voyager. Aerial photography is especially alluring because of all its
requisite gadgets and skills, so I must remind myself often: vision comes from
the heart; tools merely give it form."
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