I do understand that some my hate my work and I am totally cool with it. Everyone can\'t see and work the same way. But if you drop a bomb like:
\"These are rather poorly composed ... nice try at being artistic but it was a monumental fail ... as my daughter said when she saw these:
\"That was strange, what was the point of these?\"\"
And then don\'t come back to say which compositions are not working for you and why is kinda lame. Not putting you down in any way for not liking the work or thinking that they don\'t work. Just if it\'s sincere and you really want to help or just make a sincere statement then you should be able to express that beyond poorly composed.
To the why. Here\'s just one reason why for me. Meyerowitz is far more articulate than I am so watch this trailer of an up and coming movie that I can\'t wait to see. DO NOT let your daughter view this Andre if she is young and is offended by the f word. And I also wanted to say that because i post this I am not saying that my work is comparable to these great photographers (they all have pretty different ways of seeing). I know that my work is a different from any of these photographers for good or bad. But I would rather it suck and look like mine than to be a pail imitation of someone else. That\'s me.
Oh BTW Jeremy, I usually don\'t get stoked about wedding work but your work is a cut above. I\'m stoked. And I think I see some of you in it (big compliment BTW)
Ok the piece and please keep sensitive ears away from ear shot of the computer.
So these are just some reasons why I do it. Also I do believe as an art form the one thing that photography does better than any other is it freezes moments in time. I find that an extremely exciting thing. I prefer to see the moment and in a split second compose an image that makes some kind of visual sense from what is chaos. With my professional work, for the most part, it is done in very controlled situations and being created by committee (art directors, designers and other visual professionals so this type of work to me is a great break from the daily grind and great visual exercises if nothing more.
A word by Bresson and I stop here for now. And THANK YOU everyone for commenting good and bad and please continue to comment and agree disagree with my words Thats cool to but give me a bit more than it\'s hard to dance to.
Bresson:
\"What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm – the relationship between shapes and values.\" - Henri Cartier-Bresson
\"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event, as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression.\"-Henri Cartier-Bresson
\"......content cannot be separated from form. By form, I mean the rigorous organisation of the interplay of surfaces, lines and values. It is in this organisation alone that our conceptions and emotions become concrete and communicable. In photography, visual organisation can stem only from a developed instinct.\" - Henri Cartier-Bresson
\"\'Manufactured\' or staged photography does not concern me. And if I make a judgment, it can only be on a psychological or sociological level. There are those who take photographs arranged beforehand and those who go out to discover the image and seize it. For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which - in visual terms - questions and decides simultaneously. In order to \"give a meaning\" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry. It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.\"-Henri Cartier-Bresson
Also wanted to say Jeremy there is usually always going to be a slight crop in most of my work because I shoot with a rangefinder and what I see in the viewfinder is not what I get. Close and there is also a parallax. Those crop lines is just an approximation and not accurate. I am getting a lot better at it though.
Sep 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM
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