I think that you have to teach basic techniques first, but using very good examples to show the results.
But i dont "teach" them anything, is just show them that there are many path to follow, and urge them to realise the importance of asking themselves good questions, be it about the photos they take, or the ones they see. Learning to question things and reflect on the answer you came up with, is the most important part of the process of becaming an "author".
On 17/07/07, Howard <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Techniques or Aesthetics first?
This is rather like which came first, the chicken and the egg.
Both have to be taught, but if one over-weighs the other then students
will learn nothing because they will get bored - they want to get out
and take photos!
Perhaps self-criticism - in the "correct" sense of self-evaluation
leading to the desire to improve - should be first.
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