[LRflex] Re: Future R system NOW... LEARNING.
- From: <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:31:17 -0700
Axel Collier asked:
"> Hi Ted
>
> You made me curious. So I googled a little.
>
> Are you this Ted Grant : "Ted Grant is known in the trade as the "father
> of
> Canadian photojournalism"
> If you are, I am honoured and i must say : i like your pictures !<<<<<<
That's what they tell me! :-) And thank you for your compliment good Sir!
>>> Anyway : I can't believe you have so much energy and ambition at your
>>> age !
> Incredible !<<<
It's the passion of doing what I've done all these 60 years, being a
photographer and loving every moment of it. Oh I have days when I wonder if
I'm going to see the next dawn, but then the shooting ahead creates an
energy level beyond explanation, certainly when I think about what I'll be
working on and the results I hopefully expect to get.
Working out three mornings a week for an hour helps keep the mobility.
Sometimes tough to get it in when on the road at times. Besides if you
don't keep busy you'll die! :-) And I'm not going for a time yet, too many
things to shoot and books to do. :-) One should always think positive, damn
the torpedoes, full steam ahead. Then when you go down, you go with camera
in hand and a smile of satisfaction on your face!
Yes send along an off list post and we'll get at it.
see you on the funny pages! :-)
cheers,
ted
" <axel.collier@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 2:28 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Future R system NOW... LEARNING.
> Hi Ted
>
> You made me curious. So I googled a little.
>
> Are you this Ted Grant : "Ted Grant is known in the trade as the "father
> of
> Canadian photojournalism"
> If you are, I am honoured and i must say : i like your pictures !
>
> Anyway : I can't believe you have so much energy and ambition at your age
> !
> Incredible !
> I like the way you talk about photography, i like your love for images and
> i
> could not agree more with what you say about what techies do these days.
> Well, if i would think otherwise, i would probably not be on THIS list ...
>
> I think you are right about photography clubs as well. Not any club will
> do
> ... I do not want to photoshop all day ... in fact i hardly even touch
> this
> program on my computer. I have nothing against it, it is just not my way
> of
> dealing with photography. Another problem is that i do not have much time
> at
> the moment. I work in the factory, I make pictures with the camera, I have
> two kids and a wife, and somethimes go to the flyball with my dogs, and i
> study philosophy at the university. I am "only" 48 years old, but even at
> my
> young age this is a lot of things to do ...
>
> So, what can i say about this offer you make me ? I think it is wonderfull
> and i want to thank you for this opportunity !!!
>
> I can send you a personal mail and we can see where we go from there.
>
> greetings, and thanx again , Axel
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
> To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:06 PM
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Future R system NOW... LEARNING.
>
>
>> Axel Collier offered:
>> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Future R system
>>
>>
>>>>>> Hi Richard
>>> thank you for your honest words. In fact, I agree with everything you
>>> say.
>>> I
>>> am very much convinced that i will take lessons, some day. <<<<<<<,
>>
>> Hi Axel,
>> 60 years ago my good wife gave me my first camera, a little Argus A2. A
>> simple little plastic box somewhat like point & shoots of today. Not
>> quite
>> that good as it was manual, film, no meter, set everything. :-) That was
>> my
>> beginning to a 60 year career of assignments around the world, books
>> published and a life beyond the wildest imaginations of many
>> photographers.
>> Certainly beyond the dreams of many. I was just lucky.
>>
>> Now how could this happen? I bought nearly every photo magazine on the
>> rack,
>> each would have some kind of "assignment suggestion" along with "how to
>> do
>> it." And I did everyone as they came along. Not like the photo-magazines
>> of
>> today all glitz, glamour and bull shit in many cases about all the
>> Photoshop
>> techie crap correcting and fixing on the computer screen what you
>> should've
>> shot correctly in the first place. If you were a photographer first and
>> not
>> a techie first!
>> .
>> Yep when I say that I always expect rebuttals from the techie crowd, but
>> rarely from the "Photographer crowd!" ;-)
>>
>> As far as joining a camera club? Well it depends who the knowledgeable
>> folks
>> are whether you learn anything or not about "PHOTOGRAPHY FIRST!" . It's a
>> whole new world out there these days because it's far more about balance
>> this, set that, tweak the levels, Photoshop like this to correct your
>> mistakes. etc etc.!
>>
>> INSTEAD OF..... "How to see and feel what makes a picture! LIGHT and the
>> magic of how it makes or breaks your photograph! Yep we all have to learn
>> some basics, just like counting, reading and writing. However, the most
>> important thing of all is........ "WHAT DO YOU FEEL IN YOUR GUT AND
>> HEART?
>> WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE?" Some folks are born with the magic, some folks
>> eventually learn and feel it.
>>
>> Today? Others merely use their eyes to avoid banging into telephone poles
>> and or kicking over garbage cans!
>>
>> "It's set this level, colour balance, white balance, setting every dang
>> thing you can imagine on the camera with a gazillion buttons. But all you
>> are doing and learning is to become an "ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT ADJUSTMENT
>> MANIPULATOR OPERATOR!!" NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER WITH FEELING IT IN YOUR GUT!
>>
>> Although I'm busier than I should be working on my new medical book
>> project,
>> certainly at the young age of 82 :-) Here's an offer you might like to
>> think
>> about?
>>
>> How be you e-mail me personally, never mind posting to the online crew as
>> this is personal tutoring. jpeg size is fine about 5X7 or so and I'll do
>> a
>> critique explaining the good, bad and ugly and return it to you. Once
>> again
>> on private e-mail line. You can send any questions you might have also. I
>> may not get back to you overnight in each case, however as time permits
>> I'll
>> try to return your offerings as soon as possible.
>>
>> So there you are and this doesn't happen very often. Over to you.
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted
>>
>> tedgrantphoto.com
>>
>>
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