RE: Top 3 things that taught you the most about photography

Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:45:06 -0700 (PDT)

Well I don't totally disagree with you, I will to a point.  I agree that too often that people get so caught up in the technical and craft side, that you have a perfectly done photo that says absolutely nothing at all.  Yet equipment and knowledge of your craft most certainly does effect the art of photography.  Give Ansel Adams any camera you want and he likely could produce a better photo than I could with any equipment I want.  Yet no one, including Ansel, can not make up for a poor quality lens or equipment that is just not suited to do the job at hand.

Without the technical knowledge, the art usually comes by accident.  Without creativity, the technical become mundane and uninspiring.  Like most things in life, it takes a balance.  Balance is sometimes one of the most difficult things to achieve.

lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:  
 Mark,

 For me technical knowledge (the majority of responses so far) seems less important than art - given only three top choices.  Though I suppose those who included books in their top three must mean more than just technical books. 

 Three ideas to consider before anything else to make photography worth doing:

 (1) A photograph isn?t a reliable record of objective reality. 
 (2) The viewer is the subject of the photograph.
 (3) A photograph is an object as well as an image. At this point considerations of craft come into play.

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Subject: [SPAM] Top 3 things that taught you the most about photography
From: Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, July 13, 2007 12:21 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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Well I am always interested in how people learn.  Id be interested hearing what others thought were the top 3 things that taught them the most about photography??

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