Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Alain Briot raised the question today of how one improves "standards"" in photography. I translate this to the more formal inquiry, "What does it take to improve oneself and one's photography", as increasing standards means to me, a change in filtering methods and therefore, at least, some change in ourselves too. After all, if we keep behaving as we always have, we'll do as we've always done.
Most photographic websites spend a lot of time on particulars of lenses and other gear, as if these are the necessary tools by which we will complete our journey. There are very detailed and nuanced descriptions of the "writing character" of dozens of 50 mm lenses that seem to have come from the folks who give numbers to wine!
So what of all this is important to us in getting ourselves to build better images and deliver finer photographs. Well "better" means what? Is there some set of standards we can apply by which we know we're doing better?
And of course, does it necessarily mean that we do something with our pictures other than process them, grade them and store them? Is there, of necessity another or multiple subsequent steps needed for us to be sure that we are indeed making better pictures?
I do hope I've framed this inquiry correctly. So even this question is open to modification in your responses.
Asher
Bart Van Der Wolf shares a compellingly simple motto, "If you do what you did, you'll get what you got!"
Most photographic websites spend a lot of time on particulars of lenses and other gear, as if these are the necessary tools by which we will complete our journey. There are very detailed and nuanced descriptions of the "writing character" of dozens of 50 mm lenses that seem to have come from the folks who give numbers to wine!
So what of all this is important to us in getting ourselves to build better images and deliver finer photographs. Well "better" means what? Is there some set of standards we can apply by which we know we're doing better?
And of course, does it necessarily mean that we do something with our pictures other than process them, grade them and store them? Is there, of necessity another or multiple subsequent steps needed for us to be sure that we are indeed making better pictures?
I do hope I've framed this inquiry correctly. So even this question is open to modification in your responses.
Asher