Comments on: The unbearable burden of pretension http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/ Discovering and learning Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:29:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Photography as a coincidental art… « RamsThoughts http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-6392 Photography as a coincidental art… « RamsThoughts Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:50:58 +0000 http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-6392 [...] Photography as a coincidental art… Filed under: Photography, Art — ramsblog @ 11:50 pm It has been a long time since I followed up on some of blogs on my blogroll. I just happened open up Tommy’s blog and read his post about photography, his frustration as he points it out, and point-shoot art. In fact, his post made me write something about it as I get excited when I hear or read about photography. I am just a beginner with photography and started my hobby with point and shoot camera and I still use a point and shoot to picture anything I find interesting. Anyways, talking about “… try to frame it, think about the light, think about the composition, think, and think, and think …” [...] [...] Photography as a coincidental art… Filed under: Photography, Art — ramsblog @ 11:50 pm It has been a long time since I followed up on some of blogs on my blogroll. I just happened open up Tommy’s blog and read his post about photography, his frustration as he points it out, and point-shoot art. In fact, his post made me write something about it as I get excited when I hear or read about photography. I am just a beginner with photography and started my hobby with point and shoot camera and I still use a point and shoot to picture anything I find interesting. Anyways, talking about “… try to frame it, think about the light, think about the composition, think, and think, and think …” [...]

]]> By: Tommy’s Blog » The Landscapist nails it http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-5023 Tommy’s Blog » The Landscapist nails it Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:59:40 +0000 http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-5023 [...] In response to my post about my frustration with my photography, Mark Hobson, a.k.a The Landscapist, neatly summed up my problem: Creating Art is an emotional, not an intellectual, act. [...] [...] In response to my post about my frustration with my photography, Mark Hobson, a.k.a The Landscapist, neatly summed up my problem: Creating Art is an emotional, not an intellectual, act. [...]

]]> By: Mark Hobson http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-4876 Mark Hobson Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:37:50 +0000 http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-4876 Hi Tommy Get your hands on a point-and-shoot, set it on Auto, take it everywhere you go, and just take pictures of anything that catches your eye. Then look at the photographs and try to discern how your <i>soul</i> "sees". Creating Art is an emotional, not an intellectual, act. Set your emotions free and see where it takes you. Hi Tommy

Get your hands on a point-and-shoot, set it on Auto, take it everywhere you go, and just take pictures of anything that catches your eye.

Then look at the photographs and try to discern how your soul “sees”.

Creating Art is an emotional, not an intellectual, act. Set your emotions free and see where it takes you.

]]> By: Tommy Williams http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-4823 Tommy Williams Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:05:20 +0000 http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-4823 Thanks, Billie. Not preachy at all. I appreciate the support. The biggest thing I need to do is get rid of the sense of obligation and expectation that I've set around my photography so that it can become something I enjoy again rather than something I must do, or ought to do. I know absolutely that there's a discipline involved in shooting regularly and that it's required in order to get better. But I need to step back from getting better for a while to figure out what better means. I had constructed this idea of what it meant and I've been pursuing that but it's clearly a dead end so I need to back up and try another route. Thanks, Billie. Not preachy at all. I appreciate the support.

The biggest thing I need to do is get rid of the sense of obligation and expectation that I’ve set around my photography so that it can become something I enjoy again rather than something I must do, or ought to do. I know absolutely that there’s a discipline involved in shooting regularly and that it’s required in order to get better.

But I need to step back from getting better for a while to figure out what better means.

I had constructed this idea of what it meant and I’ve been pursuing that but it’s clearly a dead end so I need to back up and try another route.

]]> By: Billie http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-4822 Billie Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:43:01 +0000 http://twwilliams.com/blog/2007/02/07/the-unbearable-burden-of-pretension/#comment-4822 Tommy, Although we have never met face-to-face, I bet you are an over-achiever. I think I recognize some of the symptoms. A few quotes from the book Art and Fear, "to require perfection is to invite paralysis." "You find reasons to procrastinate, since to not work is to not make mistakes." Tom....just shoot. Stop thinking. Just go make some pictures...some will be good and some will be terrible but a few with be great. The more you just shoot, then evaluate later, the more automatic all of those things you mention become in the background. Just like you don't think about breathing, but you are doing it. I've been where you are. It isn't fun. I finally decided that I didn't have to have a career in photography, I didn't have to have shows but I really did want to photograph. Just go have fun. I've missed your pictures and I've missed your blog. Hope this doesn't sound too preachy but after all, I'm older than you. LOL Tommy, Although we have never met face-to-face, I bet you are an over-achiever. I think I recognize some of the symptoms.

A few quotes from the book Art and Fear, “to require perfection is to invite paralysis.” “You find reasons to procrastinate, since to not work is to not make mistakes.”

Tom….just shoot. Stop thinking. Just go make some pictures…some will be good and some will be terrible but a few with be great. The more you just shoot, then evaluate later, the more automatic all of those things you mention become in the background. Just like you don’t think about breathing, but you are doing it.

I’ve been where you are. It isn’t fun. I finally decided that I didn’t have to have a career in photography, I didn’t have to have shows but I really did want to photograph. Just go have fun. I’ve missed your pictures and I’ve missed your blog.

Hope this doesn’t sound too preachy but after all, I’m older than you. LOL

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