On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Doug Brewer <[email protected]> wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> To do something truly stunning in photography is incredibly difficult, >> far moreso than it seems on the surface. > > there. fixed that for ya.
While I generally agree with your amendment to Godfrey's statement, and I know what you're driving at (okay, I never really know what you're driving at, but I think I get your drift here), what Godfrey said hit me at a more visceral level. I'm not saying I'm very good at any type of photography, but there are some genres that I feel somewhat comfortable with and I don't think I'm horrible at those few things. That being said, I always thought that landscape photography was easy. I mean, hell, the trees and mountains and meadows and whatever else don't move very fast, ya gots lots of time to set up yer tripods and aim and everything. What's tough about that? Photography's all about The Decisive Moment, right? What's decisive in a babbling brook? Then I took my first trip to GFM, got home (in those pre-digital - for me - days) got my stuff developed and was greatly humbled. I mean, I had a few keepers, but I realized that those were more lucky accidents than anything else. To be blunt, ~my stuff sucked~!! My admiration for the photographers on this list that do amazing landscape work bumped up several notches that spring. So, I have to agree with Godfrey on this one. Landscape photography is incredibly difficult! At least it's difficult if one wants to achieve anything half-way decent. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
