Huh? Who are those people? and I'm really not interested in knowing.
I just take pictures and want to improve my images and be entertained by images by others. I'll find my own own way, blundering thru these forums without being intellectual.
PJ & street are terms that a broad base knows and is supported by thread titles in other forums
It may have warts but I think it's working fine
Please, please, please dear God let this post be a joke!!! Please!
The best way to learn photography and improve your images is to look at photographs. If you don't know who those photographers are, you should at least Google them. You might learn something!
This is a hobby. I design custom/build houses & strip centers (which leaves me some time in this market). I spend far too much time on photography and I really don't want learn more of it (just a little more).
Photography gave me incentive to travel - cross country by motorcycle a couple ot times & thru national parks. In November I'm going to the desert in Baja, Mex to shoot the Baja 1000 desert race. On the way home I'm stopping at the Salton Sea to shoot a sunrise & some birds.
On the way home to SF I'll stop at Death Valley to shoot some dunes I've missed - at sunset.
I just take pictures and want to improve my images and be entertained by images by others. I'll find my own own way, blundering thru these forums without being intellectual.
Rags,
One of the great fashion photographers (Helmut Newton) famously said, "Look, I'm not an intellectual--I just take pictures." So fair enough. Personally, I find it educational to look at the work of the great photographers, not to mention enjoyable. It can also be depressing to see how far I am from the mark. What's right for you is entirely your choice, of course.
One of the great fashion photographers (Helmut Newton) famously said, "Look, I'm not an intellectual--I just take pictures." So fair enough. Personally, I find it educational to look at the work of the great photographers, not to mention enjoyable. It can also be depressing to see how far I am from the mark. What's right for you is entirely your choice, of course.
Well there you are... Helmuts my hero.... sounds like he had a head on his shoulders
I never would have known that Richard if you didn't tell me, thanks ....
I've wandered onto digitalgrin from time to time over the past couple of years and then wandered away again, feeling discouraged about posting because of virtually no feedback from which to learn. What a wonderful surprise to wander back today and find this new forum on the site. I love street photography, candid and relatively untouched photos of people. I'm not a big fan of posed, overly processed photos that no longer look real, to the point that I've recently started to teach myself to shoot film. I know, I've done it a** backwards.
This is where I'll come first and hope to learn a lot from BD and members. It seems that this forum may be more welcoming to relative newbies who are not part of the more established community here, are interested in 'real' photos and want to improve via C&C.
The use of a camera is similar to that of a knife. You can use it to peel potatoes, or carve a flute. ~ E. Kahlmeyer
... I'm still peeling potatoes.
I've wandered onto digitalgrin from time to time over the past couple of years and then wandered away again, feeling discouraged about posting because of virtually no feedback from which to learn. What a wonderful surprise to wander back today and find this new forum on the site. I love street photography, candid and relatively untouched photos of people. I'm not a big fan of posed, overly processed photos that no longer look real, to the point that I've recently started to teach myself to shoot film. I know, I've done it a** backwards.
This is where I'll come first and hope to learn a lot from BD and members. It seems that this forum may be more welcoming to relative newbies who are not part of the more established community here, are interested in 'real' photos and want to improve via C&C.
Welcome back to Digital Grin, Patti. This new forum is, truly, a blessing for us all. B.D. has been a great motivator for most of us. I can't wait to see your work!
This is a hobby. I design custom/build houses & strip centers (which leaves me some time in this market). I spend far too much time on photography and I really don't want learn more of it (just a little more).
Photography gave me incentive to travel - cross country by motorcycle a couple ot times & thru national parks. In November I'm going to the desert in Baja, Mex to shoot the Baja 1000 desert race. On the way home I'm stopping at the Salton Sea to shoot a sunrise & some birds.
On the way home to SF I'll stop at Death Valley to shoot some dunes I've missed - at sunset.
Read books about photography? are you kidding me?
But hey, that's just me
Hey, I'm not suggesting you read books about photography - heaven forbid! What I am suggesting is that you look at books OF photography. Hobby or life's focus, looking at the work of people who are really good will improve your work - I know it improves mine, if it does often discourage the hell out of me.
Travel cross country by motorcycle? Go spend some time with a copy of Robert Frank's "The Americans," or Danny Lyons's "Bike Riders."
Think of them as random access hard copy archival devices.
I live for books. As a society we have become light sippers. We love the TV sound bite, the blog post, the newspaper headline, the forum thread. I prefer to quaff deeply from the fire hose that is a book.
Thought I'd give this thread a kick in the pants. Maybe it's just me and where I'm at, but I sense a lull in group. We've been through "titles / no titles", "b&w v colour", "bums or not" and many other micro discussions. But what's the temperature and interest of the group these days?
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Personally, I think this forum has evolved through a maturing process that has been most beneficial. I don't post over here because it's simply not the kind of shooting that I do. I do, however, look in quite frequently because of two aspects: the caliber of photography that's often displayed and the good chance that I can learn from those individuals whose skills are a lot better than mine.
I think this forum has mellowed somewhat and, because of that, it has proven to be a much more inviting environment for those folks who are less accomplished than others. While folks are still free....and readily exercise that freedom....to offer C & C, there's less of a sharp, biting overtone in the air. Consequently, more people frequent the forum, more positive interchange of techniques and ideas transpires, and the whole bunch of us are better off for it.
Tom
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Sorry :cry I guess I need smiley faces to show me when somebody is joking! I don't "get" a lot of forum jokes.
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"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
This is a hobby. I design custom/build houses & strip centers (which leaves me some time in this market). I spend far too much time on photography and I really don't want learn more of it (just a little more).
Photography gave me incentive to travel - cross country by motorcycle a couple ot times & thru national parks. In November I'm going to the desert in Baja, Mex to shoot the Baja 1000 desert race. On the way home I'm stopping at the Salton Sea to shoot a sunrise & some birds.
On the way home to SF I'll stop at Death Valley to shoot some dunes I've missed - at sunset.
Read books about photography? are you kidding me?
But hey, that's just me
Looks like I got fooled too...
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and I do believe its true.. that there are roads left in both of our shoes..
One of the great fashion photographers (Helmut Newton) famously said, "Look, I'm not an intellectual--I just take pictures." So fair enough. Personally, I find it educational to look at the work of the great photographers, not to mention enjoyable. It can also be depressing to see how far I am from the mark. What's right for you is entirely your choice, of course.
Well there you are... Helmuts my hero.... sounds like he had a head on his shoulders
I never would have known that Richard if you didn't tell me, thanks ....
This is where I'll come first and hope to learn a lot from BD and members. It seems that this forum may be more welcoming to relative newbies who are not part of the more established community here, are interested in 'real' photos and want to improve via C&C.
... I'm still peeling potatoes.
patti hinton photography
Looking forward to seeing your posts.
Virginia
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know." Diane Arbus
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... I'm still peeling potatoes.
patti hinton photography
Hey, I'm not suggesting you read books about photography - heaven forbid!
Travel cross country by motorcycle? Go spend some time with a copy of Robert Frank's "The Americans," or Danny Lyons's "Bike Riders."
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
Think of them as random access hard copy archival devices.
I live for books. As a society we have become light sippers. We love the TV sound bite, the blog post, the newspaper headline, the forum thread. I prefer to quaff deeply from the fire hose that is a book.
What is the preferred size (in pixels) to post?
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I think this forum has mellowed somewhat and, because of that, it has proven to be a much more inviting environment for those folks who are less accomplished than others. While folks are still free....and readily exercise that freedom....to offer C & C, there's less of a sharp, biting overtone in the air. Consequently, more people frequent the forum, more positive interchange of techniques and ideas transpires, and the whole bunch of us are better off for it.
Tom