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Monorail cameras are too heavy and wood folders are better for use in the field
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain
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I can remember the first time I had my first (giant, DIY sliding-box) 11x14 camera out on location at Pemaquid Point, Maine. Boy, what a bear even then...getting this thing, along with my Quick-Set "Gibraltar" tripod out onto the rocks!
At any rate...it wasn't long after I'd gotten it set up that another gentleman of about my age (mid-30's at that time), approached me and just gave me the business...as in, "what...you think that you are taking the worlds best photograph? Who do you think you are, anyway?" and he went on and on like this, would not leave me alone - could not believe it!
plenty of painters and sculptors don't pre visualize ... Because of "free will" ..
I think anyone who considers themself a "photographer" gives special attention to their work, including people who use cellphones ( and 100 years ago brownies and folders &c) people who don't use a light meter, don't pre visualize and who shoot sheet film from the hip.
( no rules )
Depth perspective was first used in the 14th century by several European artists and was used extensively during the Renaissance. But the artists are not necessarily using a perspective that adheres to a specific lens AOV. The portrait of a person may have a perspective in a “normal” range while the background may suggest a super wide angle. Take Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa for example where this is pretty obvious. There is no lens that can simultaneously produce her portrait without any linear distortion where the background is a cityscape.
Freedom to create comes from discipline which means initially limiting choices but “breaking out” as vision and skill mature. You have to take years of boring piano lessons to play Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Too many examples in history which support the idea that freedom is creating within a discipline - breaking the rules without breaking the law, so to speak.
Ideally photography should not confine itself to a self absorbing hobby but a way of communicating something individual about the subject and the photographer. .
How about "photography SHOULD be fun!!!"
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