Gestures (*), the way people use their hands (*) and facial expressions (*), are very hard to deal with photographically.via Corinna Sauer: Home Story (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).
One of the complications appears to be that the moment we are made to look at a gesture (*), frozen in a photograph, we have to pay attention to something we usually do not think about.
And then it gets weird very quickly.
you reach a point where talent (*) isn’t enough to compete. Because as you progress (*), you’re eventually going to run up against people who are both talented and driven (*).via I’m an actor.""How has being an actor differed from your... (*) by Humans of New York (*).
And then there's a whole 'nother echelon, the rest of us- guys like me. The bottom of the barrel, the pissing in the wind crowd, the no respect guys- like most everyone else in blogdom. We do it for the same reasons we continue to photograph without fanfare- although we may aspire to bigger and better, after a coupla years, it becomes obvious it's because we want to, have to. For better or for worse...via The Art Of Photoblogging... (*) by Reciprocity Failure (*).
And the reward (*) is, the reward is whatever we find of it within ourselves..
Listen to your images. Let them talk back to you and you’ll be surprised with how much they can teach you about yourself.via Max Pinckers dos and don'ts: Question Yourself, Question Everything (*) by Colin Pantall (*).
Above all, always be critical and question the medium, the subject, the approach and your own position.
When you pick up a camera the options are limitless.via Danny Lyon Domino Player (*) by Adam Marelli (*).
The worlds of spectacular and lack luster are very close to one another.
Anyone who has taken a shot they love (*) knows that the shot before and the shot after were failures (*).
As photographers, we swim in a visual world where things can go either way, in the fraction of a second.
But when we can anticipate (*) and understand (*) how our decisions (*) can impact an image, that awareness (*) lets us become more than observers.
We become authors.
