Re: Another one bites the dust

Marilyn <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:21:56 -0800

Hi Herschel,

I appreciate your comment and the suggestion of 
shooting a subject 100 times.   That's a good point and after the 
first 25 shots, I'm sure the students are looking for a different way to shoot 
their subject.

I may steal your assignment - or at least 25-50 
photographs of it.

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: 
  Herschel 
  Mair 
  To: List for Photo/Imaging 
  Educators - Professionals - Students 
  Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:11 
  AM
  Subject: Re: Another one bites the 
  dust

    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
__________________________________________________
----- 
    Original Message ----- 
From: 
To: 
    "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" 

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

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