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Sorry...a tad self-indulgent...
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Cool! Very! And if we can't be self-indulgent here, where can we be?
"He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan
"The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
…you were focusing??
…and what about the framing?
oh never mind…
- Wil
This comment made me laugh out loud. Damon is one of the very few of us who has managed to learn the rules well enough to break them in surprising ways to advantage.
Well, I'm sure you're absolutely right…
- Wil
OK, so this may be a learning opportunity for me. I loved the quirky composition of this pic, but like Wil, I was bothered that nothing at all is in focus. Why is that concern laughable? Would this really be a worse pic if, say, the eye or the front of the lens were sharp? Would you have said the same thing if a n00b had posted the exact same image?
Why I laughed is that I empathize with Will. But I've learned over time that if I just live with Damon's shots for a little while they always grow on me. I always find the answer to the question of why the rule was broken. It always makes sense in the end. When I haven't thought so, I've turned out to be wrong.
So I'm sorry I came out sounding snide. I just recognize myself in the criticism and remember that I've learned to question my own first impressions. That's what makes looking at Damon's shots so interesting.
This is a neat photo. The photographer fading into the mist while watching all the time waiting for his shot.
Don't we all feel this way sometimes?
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've yet to find any photographer (living or dead) who has found the photographic equivalent…
- Wil
A friend of mine said something about Monk which I agree with more: Once you hear it, you can't unhear it. That's probably true of lots of the greats.
Look, I wasn't really trying to say anything so high faluting about Damon. It's just that he seems to put a lot of thought into the shots he shows and it's been easy for me to miss the point unless I look long and hard and maybe look again.
Virginia's critique verbalized the kind of thought that seems often to be required by Damon's shots. I can think of a couple of examples where I really missed the point, most recently this one.
Precisely: "the secret of the right mistake"
- Wil
To make it clear (haha), I was shooting through one of those three-way shaving mirrors. This shot was the second bounce, so me, reflected into another mirror, and me again. I shot about 10 frames, but this one was the only one that lined up my eye over the camera that way, like I was creeping for a shot - of myself. Anyway, thanks for the commentary. I appreciate it.