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Taylor Davidson
Photography, Culture, Travel, Change
Out of focus | Richmond, Virginia | Sep 2008
Canon finally gave the Internet what it had been waiting for by announcing the 5D MKII a couple weeks ago. Search for “Canon 5D rumors”, “Canon 5D replacement” or other variants on Google and y ... Continue reading »
Canon finally gave the Internet what it had been waiting for by announcing the 5D MKII a couple weeks ago. Search for “Canon 5D rumors”, “Canon 5D replacement” or other variants on Google and y ... Continue reading »
9 months ago
back to your post ... how do memories form in our mind? we don't know, but out of the entire stream of experience some one thing goes boink and clicks ... a still photo extracted from a stream of video seems similar, and given how cool serendipity can be, will result in some spectacular photos ...
avoiding marketing messages is as true in photography as in any other walk of life, (sorry all you marketing guys, i only hate your profession, not you) but what really contributes to evolving one's artistic vision? suffering. loss. frustration. failure. and the gift of deeper perception that can result if one is lucky. and a whole lot of practice and the ability to not take your own work personally, just look at it without attachment ... and feeling how it feels to you. and then do more ..
dang, what were we talking about again? anyway, nice post. do i want a canon super mark 5? not really.
enjoy, gregory
9 months ago
Is it possible for an artist to look at their work without attachment? is it possible to create something without attaching yourself to it? I don't equate attachment with caring, or equate "looking without attachment" with "feeling, caring or believing in one's work"...
Agreed: evolving one's artistic vision comes through experiencing life, not experiencing art.
It's a problem for any creative soul in any medium (marketing included).
And no, a camera doesn't change that.
It's important to have the right tools to create what you create, but improving the tool does not necessarily equate with improving the results.
Selecting a still from a stream of images is interesting: it seems more similar to how our minds interpret experiences. But the processes for the artist is so different, simply because of when you're selecting the right still to preserve. Do you throw away the rest of the stream? Is your judgment drastically different because you're existing in a different moment? (taking a picture in the moment v. reviewing the stream in a different moment) I don't know...