Re: Another one bites the dust

[Herschel Mair <herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cartier Bresson said "Your first 10 000 photographs are your worst"

 

I think that one of the biggest advantages of digital is that it lets you experiment with the first 10 000 images cheaply and easily.

The more you shoot, the more you look, the more your think about different images, the better you get at it.

 

I have put off teaching f-stops and shutter speeds till the second semester. Instead I start by setting assignments in which students must take 100 different images of a subject. It forces them to look at the subject with some intensity and find new angles. Then we look at images and see what works and what doesn't. Usually the technical questions come from the students when they need to overcome obstacles.

 

Herschel

I'm trying to get students away from
I've-got-a-new-expensive-digital-camera-therefore-I-am-a-photographer way
of thinking to an I-put-thought-into-my-photographs way of thinking.

One can always hope.

Marilyn
________________________________________________________
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them. And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire
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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:57 AM
Subject: RE: Another one bites the dust


> Marilyn,
>
> I guess this means film's going to get really expensive and mini-labs
> scarcer sooner. BTW the one I go to has been for sale for a year.
>
> Here's the URL: http://konicaminolta.com/releases/2006/0119_03_01.html
>
> Couldn't find anything about new Fuji film cameras. They have a new
> line of interesting digitals.
>
> AZ
>
> Build a Lookaround!
> The Lookaround Book, 4Th ed.
> Now an E-book.
> http://www.panoramacamera.us
>
>
>
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Another one bites the dust
>> From: Marilyn
>> Date: Thu, January 19, 2006 9:04 am
>> To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
>>
>>
>> >From another photo list:
>>
>> Konica Minolta plans to stop production of cameras at the end of
>> March. They will sell digital SLR division to Sony, and shut down
>> film, paper, minilab an d film camera business.
>>
>> (On the other hand, Fujifilm is supposed to release a few new film
>> cameras in 2006...)
>>
>> Marilyn
>> ________________________________________________________
>> "Come to the edge."
>> "We can't. We're afraid."
>> "Come to the edge."
>> "We can't. We will fall!"
>> "Come to the edge."
>> And they came.
>> And he pushed them. And they flew.
>>
>> Guillaume Apollinaire
>> __________________________________________________
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "kostaspapakotas"
>> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
>>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: Rodinal storage life?
>>
>>
>> > Karl & Pablo th is is great news. Many than
>> > ks
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
>

Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,

Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman

Adobe Certified instructor

 

+ (986) 99899 673

 

www.herschelmair.com

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