Benco
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- Jan 6, 2013
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For me a photograph is art when all the right elements come together, inspiration, composition, the technical realisation of the shot...
sometimes you're inspired and get a technically perfect shot but the composition isn't there; no good.
sometimes it's a great composition and spot on technically but the inspiration just wasn't there, it's boring; no good
sometimes you see the potential for a great image, you know it'll work but for whatever technical reason the photo is a dud; no good.
...I get a lot of 'no goods' but maybe one in every couple of hundred or so are what I'd call art. I find that as I get more experienced I can tell when something isn't going to work so there's no point hustling to shoot it, living where I do a lot of the most inspiring stuff I see is natural, birds in flight, breaking waves, fleeting stuff like that; I've learnt to just enjoy the things that I know, that for whatever reason, I cannot capture as a photo.
Anyway if they're really good I can always paint them.
sometimes you're inspired and get a technically perfect shot but the composition isn't there; no good.
sometimes it's a great composition and spot on technically but the inspiration just wasn't there, it's boring; no good
sometimes you see the potential for a great image, you know it'll work but for whatever technical reason the photo is a dud; no good.
...I get a lot of 'no goods' but maybe one in every couple of hundred or so are what I'd call art. I find that as I get more experienced I can tell when something isn't going to work so there's no point hustling to shoot it, living where I do a lot of the most inspiring stuff I see is natural, birds in flight, breaking waves, fleeting stuff like that; I've learnt to just enjoy the things that I know, that for whatever reason, I cannot capture as a photo.
Anyway if they're really good I can always paint them.