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03/19/2005 10:41:01 AM · #1 |
Last night i planned to go to this park that has a lake and take pictures. Today i was driving to the library and it seems like i keep having visions of the park the lake the camera and me how i want the picture to look what i didnt want to see in the picture when iam going to go and what iam going to do in PS CS to fix it lol I noticed this happens to me whenever i get ready to take a picture and when i know in advanced i thinks its my way of planning the event in my head i wondered if anyone else goes through what i go through or anything similar. it almost feels like anxiety.... I been told in order to take good pictures you have to have a photographers eye is this that eye ? the wierd part is that when i look on here and see candid shots there so perfect like they were premeditated but they werent iam confused thanks
Leon
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03/19/2005 10:55:27 AM · #2 |
I think the 'eye' you speak of has nothing to do with pre-determination of what a shot is going to be. Obviously, you have to have some idea of what you want, but it's more or less being able to look at every day sites as if you were starring at an 8x10 mounted and framed on your wall. What works, what doesn't -- knowing when to shoot, when not to, and what to throw away when the day is said and done.
It's great to have an idea and go shoot for that idea, but then, I personally, find myself distracted. I think I always produce better 'impulse shots' and carry a much more open-minded approach to things -- which helps as well.
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03/19/2005 11:02:04 AM · #3 |
Thats an idea jus do some impulse shots and at the end look at everything and see what i like the best i'l try that
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03/19/2005 11:14:47 AM · #4 |
What you are describing is the beginning of what Ansel Adams called "previsualization" and it is perhaps the single most important conceptual step you can take on the path to becoming an "artist"...
This is NOT to say that beautiful images cannot be made without previsualization, or "true" ones or "important" ones, or whatever (trying to forestall people jumping all over me here), but IMO one of the bedrock abilities of an artist is the capacity to see with the mind's eye before even beginning a work where s/he wants it to go. Even if sometimes the work ends up going elsewhere as if it has a mind of its own, and even if sometimes the work leaps out at us when we least expect it.
Robt.
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03/19/2005 12:18:10 PM · #5 |
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03/19/2005 12:40:46 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by LEONJR:
...it almost feels like anxiety.... |
I think anxiety is a critical ingredient in any event that truly engages us. To me, it signals that I have crossed or am about to cross the periphery of habitual experience and action. My senses are heightened, I am preparing for the unexpected while questioning everything: uncertainty and discomfort. But I know I have been there before, and reminding myself of what has, occasionally, evolved from such states, Im also recognizing the tremendous use that can evolve from it. The greater my discomfort, the higher my expectations. The higher my expectations, the greater the chance of fulfillment or... failure. Hey, life (and art) works in paradoxical ways, so everything is as it should be.
The danger, I feel, lies in the fact that we are conditioned to play it safe, and by safe I mean that we are accustomed and inclined to reduce that discomfort, the anxiety, when we could, also, use it toward a greater emotional grasp of things.
To this end, I feel it is important to remain as open and sensitized to the reality at the root of it all. I mean, how often do we have a chance to feel what we think, to synchronize our attentions with nature, with everything, really, all the parts that make up a complete experience?
If we conceptualize (in the safe mode), if we plan and determine without allowing external facts to surprise, aid or hinder us, we diminish the scope of potential discovery. If we do both (one eye on intent, on what we yearn for -the use of ego comes in handy here- the other on the weather, location, the external) we will go temporarily insane, but we have this beautiful chance to merge with whatever it is we happen to consider. We might, for a brief moment, become one with it, and if we are keen and alert with that instant, we press the shutter (timing) and have something worth while and more satifying than a pretty picture.
Message edited by author 2005-03-19 16:56:46.
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03/19/2005 12:41:25 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Jacko:
breath, damnit breath. |
This is good. This is very good.
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03/19/2005 12:45:08 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by Jacko:
breath, damnit breath. |
This is good. This is very good. |
But breathe might be better ... |
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03/19/2005 04:43:23 PM · #9 |
knowing how to use the camera well is also quite important. being able to 'see' what the end result will be, and being able to tell the camera what you see go hand in hand. kind off topic, but came to mind...
Message edited by author 2005-03-19 16:43:51.
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03/19/2005 05:20:13 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
But breathe might be better ... |
Phew *big breath of relief* - thank you, General! |
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03/21/2005 10:26:52 AM · #11 |
Thanks for the information everyone i didnt know what was happening i know it may not seem serious but atleast i understand now
Leon
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