I have been doing plenty of shooting of late, and had precious little time to organise and consolidate.
I have also been considering a little the attitude I am to take to my photographs. I feel for the most part that I am experimenting - all the time. I spend precious little time researching how to take photographs - or taking the advice of others. I prefer stumbling blind into it all I think.
Maybe part of this is just ego? I hope most of it is a willingness to play and learn through it.
Besides this however, I don't know sometimes how to feel about the end result of the photos I take, and really how harsh one is to be to oneself when upon the curve of learning. I have said before that it is the doing of photography that holds me in a happy and free place, but I do want there to be a result to my experimentation I am very pleased with.
I suppose that the easiest path for me would to be content with gradual improvement, maintain my aspirations for the future and take delight in the moment of each photo. But it is very hard I feel to decide if you are actually improving technically and compositionally. Especially if the real tests - James' wedding definitely was one - are quite few and far between. Should I be doing something different? Am I broadening my experience in a way that will be useful, or am I just messing around with progressively bigger lenses?
Time shall tell I guess.
Enough talk - one of the ongoing experiments coming up - my fascination with flowers.
Two types of summer flowers often overlooked but favourites to me, inhabiting places hidden and unexpected. Out of place, untended and beautiful in a simple, bold manner.
I have also been considering a little the attitude I am to take to my photographs. I feel for the most part that I am experimenting - all the time. I spend precious little time researching how to take photographs - or taking the advice of others. I prefer stumbling blind into it all I think.
Maybe part of this is just ego? I hope most of it is a willingness to play and learn through it.
Besides this however, I don't know sometimes how to feel about the end result of the photos I take, and really how harsh one is to be to oneself when upon the curve of learning. I have said before that it is the doing of photography that holds me in a happy and free place, but I do want there to be a result to my experimentation I am very pleased with.
I suppose that the easiest path for me would to be content with gradual improvement, maintain my aspirations for the future and take delight in the moment of each photo. But it is very hard I feel to decide if you are actually improving technically and compositionally. Especially if the real tests - James' wedding definitely was one - are quite few and far between. Should I be doing something different? Am I broadening my experience in a way that will be useful, or am I just messing around with progressively bigger lenses?
Time shall tell I guess.
Enough talk - one of the ongoing experiments coming up - my fascination with flowers.
Two types of summer flowers often overlooked but favourites to me, inhabiting places hidden and unexpected. Out of place, untended and beautiful in a simple, bold manner.