yep, so today is the halfway point of the 365 project. it's been a good ride so far. i hope it only gets better as i coast through the rest of the project.
more after the break.
i've been thinking a lot lately about how, if you wanted to create a recipe for making a great photographer, what would go into it? like a road map to go from can barely use a camera to phenomenal, joe-mcnally level proficiency. it's an interesting question. i mean, should i spend more time taking pictures, or more time reading books about photography? focus on lighting or focus on composition? should i work to create one amazing image every day, or try and experiment as much as possible and figure out what works and what doesn't?
i think for me the solution is a little bit of all of the above, coupled with a lot of failure. i'm aggressively pursuing failure with this project. and i think i'm (contradictorily) succeeding in that much of the time.
i want to swing big, take big risks and see what happens. i think of every failure as a success in a way, and the bigger the failure, the bigger the success. everytime i try something new i think it's a success, whether the picture comes out well or not. i really don't want to get seduced by some particular technique or style and then only do that style from then on, because people like it, or because it's trendy, or whatever.
anyways. i think failure is the key. and failing a lot is a key. and thinking about failing, and what's going on there is key.
so, yeah. bold experimentation into ideas of photography. it's so serious, for something so non-essential.
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