All Things Art & Photography
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‘I’ve used a lot of different photographic techniques in the past thirty years. I realize there isn’t just one way to take a photograph, there are a thousand different ways—and that’s what I’ve taught the students. They should not insist on their beautiful Leica, or their Hasselblad, or whatever they use. The technique must result from the idea that you have—and you may have to develop your own technology to bring out the images. I’m not much interested in “straight” photography anymore. It has been practiced for more than 150 years, and most of it is too conventional. I’ve always wanted to go beyond the limits”.
via Thomas Ruff – Interview with Aperture – Summer 2013 – “Curiosity” – Aperture Foundation NY.
Good article at Peta Pixel on surviving in a world where everyone has a camera and thinks they are a photographer.
What’s a true aspiring professional photographer to do in the face of this onslaught of people? The answer is simple: specialize and focus.
‘Everyone Is A Photographer’: Specialize or Perish – http://pulse.me/s/l1ubuy8H6
41 Reasons to be exact and very funny….
29. THEY FIND BEAUTY IN THE WEIRDEST PLACES
That includes dirty alleys, places with a lot of poverty or just about any other location normal people would stay away from.
31. THEY WON’T PHOTOGRAPH WHAT YOU ASK THEM
Think having a photographer partner will bring you advantages? Think again. Photographers are very proud and stubborn creatures and they will rarely photograph anything they consider unworthy, unless it’s paid or they like it.
41. WHEN STARING INTO YOUR EYES, IT USUALLY MEANS SOMETHING ELSE
You might find it to be a romantic moment, but it’s usually a process that goes on in their mind and has to do with how they would correct the tiny imperfections on your face.
First Photoshop followed by Lightroom. Lightroom is for processing jobs and groups of images where Photoshop is for high end detail and retouching work. It’s not an either or situation. Both are (for me) indispensable but very different tools.
I have been using Photoshop since day one and it never ceases to amaze me how deep the program actually is. I don’t think anyone can actually know Photoshop completely. The beauty of the software is you can find 2-3 completely different paths that will solve what ever you can visualize in your head. We seem to be in a Photoshop Renaissance of sorts since now a new generation has grown up on it. I think in the future people will look back and see that Photoshop released a torrent of creative energy in photography and no doubt changed it forever. I am now convinced it has freed photography from the chains of the straight documentary image much like photography freed the painters to move from realism to expressionism, abstraction, surrealism etc. All the “bad Photoshop work” aside. I think these are very creative times in photography and Photoshop is the main engine behind it. If you don”t believe me take a look at Thomas Ruffs interview regarding his new large scale “photograms” (which they are actually not). The work is all computer generated and Photoshopped. We are in a new age so go out and make an image no one has ever seen.