On Thu, Apr 18, 2013, at 1:04, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne wrote: > In what ways do you foresee that you could better yourself as a > photographer? Is it all about Pentax releasing the camera of your dreams, > or do you have another muse for your creativity?
although i like to think of it as a journey without goal, my photography benefits from practice and study; i think i can progress despite giving only part of my life to it practice is both mechanical and psychic: imternalizing the controls, using one lens (lately 15mm) to the point its limitations become assets; looking back at my photos after a long gap and then tackling the subject again or re-editing old sets; working with the tension between how a scene _feels_ and how the photo looks afterward (perhaps my biggest challenge) study of both theory and operation, but also of what other photographers do: beyond going to exhibits and library loans, and a judicious few regular book purchases, i've gleaned hundreds of great photo books from thrifting (now is a time of radical change in the status of printed books); i seem to have more than a lifetime's material to study, and it's also a lifetime project to learn how to look at photos i also still need to read the k-5 manual to see what i've missed, and i have barely started to understand what I can do with off-camera flash, which i think of mainly as a foil for working better with available light -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
