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Day 275 Stop watching your back
A couple of weeks ago a man, much more knowledgable about photography than I am, gave me a lot of stuff to think about. Like the way I make pictures. This whole project has been learning about seeing a nice image, but also about accepting your own work. I catch myself frequently overthinking an image, sometimes going back to a scene to remake it for that littlebit extra technical perfection. But pictures don't need to be perfect! Every imperfection is part of the story that in image tells. My job as a photographer is to catch the light onto a sensor or film, and there it should end for me.
Ofcourse I enjoy a bit of post-processing, i sometimes do like changing the feel or athmosphere of an image. But that doesn't improve my quality as a photographer. I'm trying to measure my skill by the number of times I look on the back of my digital camera, something we do unnoticed, until you grab an analog camera, like my Mamiya 645 depicted here. One chance to get it right, and no quick re-takes if you get it wrong. You learn by getting punished. One film exposure at a time.
When i'm done with this project, I plan on letting my digital camera at home more often.
Day 275 Stop watching your back
A couple of weeks ago a man, much more knowledgable about photography than I am, gave me a lot of stuff to think about. Like the way I make pictures. This whole project has been learning about seeing a nice image, but also about accepting your own work. I catch myself frequently overthinking an image, sometimes going back to a scene to remake it for that littlebit extra technical perfection. But pictures don't need to be perfect! Every imperfection is part of the story that in image tells. My job as a photographer is to catch the light onto a sensor or film, and there it should end for me.
Ofcourse I enjoy a bit of post-processing, i sometimes do like changing the feel or athmosphere of an image. But that doesn't improve my quality as a photographer. I'm trying to measure my skill by the number of times I look on the back of my digital camera, something we do unnoticed, until you grab an analog camera, like my Mamiya 645 depicted here. One chance to get it right, and no quick re-takes if you get it wrong. You learn by getting punished. One film exposure at a time.
When i'm done with this project, I plan on letting my digital camera at home more often.