Sorry Tony but your explanation is way too simplistic. If only it were that easy. There are artists and there are technicians so if you are not an artist guys you may as well forget about ever trying to create a photograph that even comes close to a piece of art. I think you are right in concluding that there are technicians who will probably never develop an artistic eye but most people fall somewhere in the middle and many can easily move to the artistic side with hard work ... I'm not going to go on and on here. Once again someone has misinterpreted the term rules. Let's use guidelines instead. Artists use compositional guidelines to improve their work. Good artists know when to break away from these guidelines to improve their work of art... Artists who don't know the guidelines likely struggle to find a starting point.... Vic
In a message dated 1/2/03 9:19:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi Vic, > > > >Photographers come from many different backgrounds. > >But there are really only two; the technician and the artist. > > > >The technician needs to be taught composition. The artist > >needs only to be taught how to handle a camera and film. > > > >Later, the technician may later develop into an artist, and > >then he/she won't need to remember many rules. But the > >artist sees the picture in the viewfinder from the start, and > >will never need to be taught any rules at all. > > > >The people who praise and use rules, and insist that others > >need to be taught them, can only ever be technicians. You > >won't find many artists teaching rules, although they might > >appear (to technicians) to be using them in their work. > > > >To answer the inevitable question, I always was, am and > >always will be a technician, but I really wish I was an artist! > > > >Tony
