Does it have to say anything?

[paulr]

Craft means bringing something into the physical world. You've got a thought—then you need to know the words and the grammar and how to move your lips. If you're good at all those things, you can say it better. But not too many people care about your big vocabulary and mellifluous elocution if you've got nothing interesting to say.

[Drew Wiley]

Or nobody will listen if you don't know how to say it.

[Heroique]

If you don't know how to say it, everybody will listen if you're a beautiful young woman.



My apologies, but I think this complication remains to be addressed.

[Drew Wiley]

What about the rest of us, in the "none of the above category"?

[Greg Miller]

Mastering the craft is simply a foundation. Most importantly, if you have not mastered the craft, then taking care of the process consumes the brain, leaving little or the creative process. Once the craft is mastered, becoming very intuitive and requiring little thought, the right hemisphere of the brain can dominate, and creativity can flourish. If your brain is consumed by f-stops, apertures, Scheimpflug, dark slides, shutter cocks, it just isn't going to be very creative.

[tgtaylor]

If your brain is consumed by f-stops, apertures, Scheimpflug, dark slides, shutter cocks, it just isn't going to be very creative.

That's mechanics. We're talking craft.

Thomas

[Greg Miller]

That's mechanics. We're talking craft.

Thomas

Just add to the list. If your brain is absorbed by craft, it will not be free to be creative.

[Leszek Vogt]

If you don't know how to say it, everybody will listen if you're a beautiful young woman.



My apologies, but I think this complication remains to be addressed.

Is that suppose to be a universal thing ? What happens when she's a total bimbo ? Just like Ebony, Lotus, 'Dorff, etc. it doesn't guarantee to create a great photo....yet they look great.

Ha....woman and complication > where did ye get that idea ? :>)

Les

[Lenny Eiger]

The real interesting thing about Photography is that it is a visual language. Some people write (a lot of people can write better than me... almost everyone, I think). However, I can communicate better with photography than I can with words. It's a language... and it defies description using words. It has its own grammar and syntax, genre, etc. It's more like music than it is the written word, unless we are talking about poetry, perhaps.