Pretty good and true sentiments Marilyn. Take photography back from the Great Auto Satan! Learn well the Mystical Variables: aperture and shutter speed. I was using a manual camera for the first time in a long while the other day and had to think to advance the film between frames!! AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 4th ed. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: I thought this was interesting > From: Marilyn <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, May 23, 2005 11:10 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > (I've been doing a lot of reading, lately): > > "5.) Photography is part art and part science. It involves the human > heart, but is made manifest through optics, chemistry, electronics , and the > laws of physics. The science part of photography is composed of an > infinite number of variables and is much, much easier to learn if you reduce > the number of variables. In the first several years, choose one good film > and paper and stick with it. Limit the number of cameras you own, > especially early in your career. Learn thoroughly what your materials will > do and don't get seduced by the idea that better photographs reside in > better equipment. Never forget that all the great photographs in history > were made with more primitive camera equipment than you currently own." > > > Twenty-One Ways to Improve Your Artwork," Brooks Jensen, Editor > Lenswork No. 58 June 2005 > ________________________________ > > Leave gentle fingerprints on the > soul of another for the angels to read. > > Proverb > __________________________________
