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Response to my portfolio?

from Robert Boon (RBBoon@mvtel.net)
I looked at some of your portfolio. Some of the photographs I liked a lot, some I did not.

When you ask some one to critique your photos you are asking them to tell you more about themselves than about your photographs. I am telling you not about your photographs but about the visual experience I had when I looked at them. Talking about photography is not photography. It is a form of art criticism.

In today's visual market place 0.33 seconds can be a very long time. How many of the several thousand visual images that you saw today did you spend that much time on?

As for learning photography I would suggest this. Practice your technique. Get the blackest blacks you can and the whitest whites. Compose, then recompose. Find the extremes on each end of the scales and explore the ranges between them. Once you have mastered a technique move on to another. If you decide to follow a teacher, do not waste time arguing. Do what they tell you until you have acquired the technique they are guiding you toward. Do not look on things as good or bad but as have I learned or not learned. Learn all the rules, then later on your own time, break them. As you do this you will develope your own vision. When you have this vision you will not come to us and ask what we think. You will simply show us your work, knowing you have done what you set out to do.

(posted 8385 days ago)

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