Comments on: Psst! Want to know a secret? The best photographers make bad photographs, too. http://photodoto.com/psst-want-to-know-a-secret-the-best-photographers-make-bad-photographs-too/ Photography is for everyone. Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ourenchantedgarden http://photodoto.com/psst-want-to-know-a-secret-the-best-photographers-make-bad-photographs-too/comment-page-1/#comment-332 ourenchantedgarden Thu, 25 May 2006 02:47:46 +0000 http://photodoto.com/index.php/2006/05/23/psst-want-to-know-a-secret-the-best-photographers-make-bad-photographs-too/#comment-332 I Am guilty of this, though I have practiced some restraint and do often delete. Some I'm saving to play with or using as part of a series of notes to myself even. Others are for informational / instructional sets of photographs depicting a series of events or movements - some of them I call "life of a..." sets and are still only developing, they will make more sense when I've had a year to build them. Using Ansel's theory Flickr would lose it's whole meaning though wouldn't it? Flickr isn't really marketed in the way that I would consider my photostream as a collection of "perfect shots every time" but rather as a collection of photographs that I want to document and back up by having them on an on-line and off-site storage facility. Having a pro account and virtually unlimited upload allowances, this makes sense. Should something happen to my hard drive my photographs, at least the ones I have loaded to Flickr, will still be available - it's only a small part of a lot of other safeguarding but is still another option. Also those photos are available anywhere I might be and be on-line, and that's handy too! I Am guilty of this, though I have practiced some restraint and do often delete. Some I’m saving to play with or using as part of a series of notes to myself even. Others are for informational / instructional sets of photographs depicting a series of events or movements – some of them I call “life of a…” sets and are still only developing, they will make more sense when I’ve had a year to build them.
Using Ansel’s theory Flickr would lose it’s whole meaning though wouldn’t it? Flickr isn’t really marketed in the way that I would consider my photostream as a collection of “perfect shots every time” but rather as a collection of photographs that I want to document and back up by having them on an on-line and off-site storage facility. Having a pro account and virtually unlimited upload allowances, this makes sense. Should something happen to my hard drive my photographs, at least the ones I have loaded to Flickr, will still be available – it’s only a small part of a lot of other safeguarding but is still another option. Also those photos are available anywhere I might be and be on-line, and that’s handy too!

]]> By: Ed Fladung http://photodoto.com/psst-want-to-know-a-secret-the-best-photographers-make-bad-photographs-too/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Ed Fladung Tue, 23 May 2006 22:04:09 +0000 http://photodoto.com/index.php/2006/05/23/psst-want-to-know-a-secret-the-best-photographers-make-bad-photographs-too/#comment-329 "I guess it’s just a different way to work with images. maybe a little <em>less</em> professional." “I guess it’s just a different way to work with images. maybe a little less professional.”

]]> By: Ed Fladung http://photodoto.com/psst-want-to-know-a-secret-the-best-photographers-make-bad-photographs-too/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Ed Fladung Tue, 23 May 2006 22:02:41 +0000 http://photodoto.com/index.php/2006/05/23/psst-want-to-know-a-secret-the-best-photographers-make-bad-photographs-too/#comment-328 I agree from a professional's perspective. but not all photos are created equal. in sense that there are definitely those marquee images and then there all those images that may not be technically perfect but when collected into a group, create a deeper meaning. this is mostly associated with visual storytelling of a particular event. I struggle with this issue for my blog. I love uploading tons of images and creating some sort of slideshow of a particular day or event, this example more closely follows something like a photo journal. On the flipside, I like to showcase particular images in more of a "one a day" format or photo blog. my blog is more of a muddled middle-way approach, showing both "kinds". When I upload to my photo sharing site of choice, I often worry I'm polluting my photostream with mediocre photos. But the photos usually come together into some kind of coherent story, once they make it to my blog. In my case, I'm often more interested in the storytelling value of a group of photos rather then their standalone value. I guess it's just a different way to work with images. maybe a little professional. I agree from a professional’s perspective. but not all photos are created equal. in sense that there are definitely those marquee images and then there all those images that may not be technically perfect but when collected into a group, create a deeper meaning. this is mostly associated with visual storytelling of a particular event. I struggle with this issue for my blog. I love uploading tons of images and creating some sort of slideshow of a particular day or event, this example more closely follows something like a photo journal. On the flipside, I like to showcase particular images in more of a “one a day” format or photo blog. my blog is more of a muddled middle-way approach, showing both “kinds”.

When I upload to my photo sharing site of choice, I often worry I’m polluting my photostream with mediocre photos. But the photos usually come together into some kind of coherent story, once they make it to my blog. In my case, I’m often more interested in the storytelling value of a group of photos rather then their standalone value.

I guess it’s just a different way to work with images. maybe a little professional.

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