Does "contemplative" best describe the LFer's state of mind?

[Heroique]

Op..on the surface yes.

But the LF people on this forum are some of the most agitated I've come across. Must be all the worries about having to buy their outdated film on eBay.

"Agitated" -- also sounds like a state of mind caused by too much film and print processing.

Yet strangely, tank or tray agitation can also be a soothing, meditative darkroom process.

A repetitive mantra of sorts!

[Old-N-Feeble]

I think those words better describe me while sitting on a toilet. Especially in terms of "psychological state of flow".

Careful Mark... this could be considered 'crude' and may be deleted.

[lecarp]

I'll need some time to think about this. In a slow deliberate manner of coarse.

[mdm]

Decrepit.

[jp]

The flow thing almost fits except that it specifies immediate feedback as part of how it works.

[lecarp]

I'll need some time to think about this. In a slow deliberate manner of coarse.

Okay, I thought about it. If you are not working in a contemplative, slow and deliberate way you have a problem.
Your camera isn't big enough!

[Robert Opheim]

Heroique, Bruce, I think that the link that Bruce posted was most interesting. I used to have many conversations with a friend that was a musician, photographer, and artist. We often spoke about Art theories, and "being in the space." Which is what the article refers to. Photography does have elements of "being in the space" especially when image discovery/ conception is in play (perhaps pre-visualization too as I have heard it called in the zone system). For me a smaller format cameras have a different quality of "being in the space" than does large format on a tripod. Other art forms have different qualities of "being in the space. " Music improvisation is very "in the space" as is drawing, painting, writing. It is those left brain activities.

[AtlantaTerry]

I keep coming across this claim about LF work – "it's contemplative," "it's meditative," "it's reflective..."

Oh yeah? Try creating LF character portraits of actors on the set of a feature film while the assistant director is hollering for that actor to be in the next scene!

[Bruce Watson]

The flow thing almost fits except that it specifies immediate feedback as part of how it works.

You don't think seeing the evolving composition on the ground glass is immediate feedback?

[DrTang]

are they referring to the process or the product?

because for me..the process is anything BUT complatative or meditative

it's more like hectic, scattered and frenzied

I am always amazed if ANYTHING show up when I crack the top open of the 3006


as for the product? who knows