[ratpack] Re: Thought for the day
- From: Aleta Boyce <alboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:45:30 -0600
Sorry if it seemed like I was opposing your comments here, btw - I TOTALLY
agree, and I'm amazed at anyone who can get a really SHARP focus on pretty much
anything, after looking through my own photos.
That was what amazed me about the underwater photographer - it was so SHARP!
The only way I can do that is with Photoshop and a lot of time on my hands...
not the same, huh?
al
On Apr 12, 2012, at 9:02 AM, humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> "...few photogrphers ever master their medium.
> Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel
> cage chase frm new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never
> staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities,
> becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use,
> since they don't know what to do with it." (italics added)
>
> "...The task can be made immeasureably easier by selecting the simplest
> possible equipment and precedures and staying with them. Learning to see in
> terms of the field of one lens, the scale of one film and one paper will
> accomplish a good deal more than gathering a smattering of knowledge about
> several sets of tools."
>
> I resemble that statement!
>
>
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