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| quote: | Originally posted by squirrelly
lololol Scott :stongue:
No I mean, ok - so you buy some huge expensive camera - take 250 pictures, and end up with 5 "good" ones, and then call yourself a photographer.
WTF, where's the talent? That's just luck.
Be trained on a FILM camera, when film was expensive, and be told you have ONE roll, and out of 36 shots, 35 have to be PERFECT, and you'll know what it's like. I don't need to take 250 pictures to get a few good ones. I was trained to take the correct shot, on the first try, every time.
And I can develop my own , too.
so yea.
//rant
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your analogy is all wrong.
I have heard this countlessly this from teachers, pros, artists, curators etc that you need to take many pictures to get a few "good" ones.
If you can get a 1:36 good picture to roll ratio then you are in luck. That number has perhaps gone higher with digital because the basics of lighting, timing etc aren't as rigidly followed as in times past but the numbers are still the same.
Maybe you can get 35 "ok" shots that follow the rules have appropriate exposure etc, but are they really good? Do they serve a purpose, do they communicate anything interesting?
Give me a freaking break with your primadonna behavior because you seem to fail to grasp basic points yet allow yourself to pawn off that semblance of knowledge you have unto others.
Welcome to the modern jackar55 world where everyone despite their knowledge being big or small or flawed is spewed out whenever one feels like it.
oh and to further prove my point you should watch both of these things:
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BBC The Genius of Photography
Right Time Right Place
The Genius of Photography – Right Place, Right Time? (3/6)
Being in the right place at the right time, the decisive moment, getting in close — in the popular imagination this is photography at its best, a medium that makes us eyewitnesses to the moments when history is made. But just how good is photography at making sense of what it records? Is getting in close always better than standing back, and just how decisive are the moments that photographers risk their necks to capture? Set against the backdrop of the Second World War and its aftermath, The Genius of Photography - Right Place, Right Time examines how photographers dealt with dramatic and tragic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima, and the questions their often extraordinary pictures raise about history as seen through the viewfinder. With contributions from Magnum legends Philip Jones Griffiths and Susan Meiselas, soldier-lensman Tony Vaccaro and broadcaster Jon Snow. |
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Contacts Vol1+Vol2
The world's greatest photographers reveal the secrets behind their images in this collection of short, personal films. Using images (contact prints, proofs, prints, or slides) with commentary by the artists themselves to uncover the artistic processes of the greatest contemporary photographers from an original perspective. The viewer is thrust into the secret universe of creativity and into the heart and method of the evolution of a photographic body of work.
Volume 1 features:
Henri Cartier-Bresson William Klein Raymond Depardon Josef Koudelka Robert Doisneau Edouard Boubat Elliott Erwitt Marc Riboud Leonard Freed Mario Giacomelli Helmut Newton Don McCullin
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Oh and if you wanna play it cool with your behavior, two can play that game. :p
You ever taken shots with a large format sheet camera? Now that takes patience and work to get anything decent be it from that moment when the initial snapshot is taken up to when you are done processing the contact sheet.
| quote: | Originally posted by squirrelly
oh, and taking pictures at clubs/concerts of djs/bands, where the lighting is already all set up for you, does NOT count. |
Lighting setup at clubs/concerts making pictures easy? LOL :wtf:
Getting decent pictures in both of these situations is no easy feat because especially because of the lighting!
If it was such as easy task then most pictures taken at clubs that are posted here would be good, alas only a meager percentage are be it by subject matter(we can both agree on that) or from a technical point of view and aura/originality etc. |
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