Comments on: The complicated nature of Nature Photography http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/ Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:49:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Earl Moore http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-19326 Earl Moore Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:46:36 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/#comment-19326 Paul: Confused...Not! LOL You may have been great at needle stitch, but the photographic community is better for you being here. ;-) You've been in photography long enough for it to be almost automatic for you. Not so for the novice. The same would go for programming or any technical activity...maybe even needle stitch! :-) Paul:
Confused…Not! LOL

You may have been great at needle stitch, but the photographic community is better for you being here. ;-)

You’ve been in photography long enough for it to be almost automatic for you.

Not so for the novice. The same would go for programming or any technical activity…maybe even needle stitch! :-)

]]> By: paul http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-19325 paul Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:26:54 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/#comment-19325 Excellent post, Earl. I love the charts and graphs! If I had known that photography was so complex, I would have taken up needle stitch!!! :-) I'm glad that I have a simple mind. Now, I'm all confused!!! Excellent post, Earl. I love the charts and graphs! If I had known that photography was so complex, I would have taken up needle stitch!!! :-) I’m glad that I have a simple mind. Now, I’m all confused!!!

]]> By: Earl Moore http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-19320 Earl Moore Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:48:02 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/#comment-19320 Rich: Excellent point and in principle I agree. My thinking is that process of elimination of "those elements that are not appropriate for the effect you want" must be based upon experience and knowledge, and how are we to gain this experience? A novice will not truly know what effect each variable gives unless they experiment. Even a professional should push their boundaries and comfort zone at times in pursuit of better art. Those complicated things we do every day become simple to us. Thanks for the comment. Rich:
Excellent point and in principle I agree.

My thinking is that process of elimination of “those elements that are not appropriate for the effect you want” must be based upon experience and knowledge, and how are we to gain this experience?

A novice will not truly know what effect each variable gives unless they experiment. Even a professional should push their boundaries and comfort zone at times in pursuit of better art.

Those complicated things we do every day become simple to us.

Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Rich http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-19319 Rich Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:09:36 +0000 http://meanderingpassage.com/2008/03/06/the-complicated-nature-of-nature-photography/#comment-19319 Perhaps there is a different way to approach the complexity -- instead of thinking of the nearly infinite combinations possible with lenses, apertures, subjects, etc., it makes more practical sense to eliminate the elements that are not appropriate for the effect you want to produce. I though of Sherlock Holmes's approach to visual accuity: "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences." Our job as photographers is not to produce every conceivable perspective about a subject but to relate an emotional / visual effect that we most clearly glean from observing a subject. I guess it could be asserted that this is a minimalist view of the subject but I would assert that it is more an approach of clarification. Just some food for thought... Perhaps there is a different way to approach the complexity — instead of thinking of the nearly infinite combinations possible with lenses, apertures, subjects, etc., it makes more practical sense to eliminate the elements that are not appropriate for the effect you want to produce. I though of Sherlock Holmes’s approach to visual accuity:

“On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.”

Our job as photographers is not to produce every conceivable perspective about a subject but to relate an emotional / visual effect that we most clearly glean from observing a subject. I guess it could be asserted that this is a minimalist view of the subject but I would assert that it is more an approach of clarification.

Just some food for thought…

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