RE: Re: Blind photographer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joao Ribeiro [mailto:jribeiro@greco.com.br]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:27 PM
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Re: Blind photographer
>
>
> Hi Guy,
>
>
> > ... not just in the field of
> > commercial/advertising where the photographer's role has
> essentially been
> > reduced to shooting "exactly" the mental image of the art director.
> >
> > Think of the word "Pre-visualization" that pervades all the
> Photo-101 or Zone
> > System textbooks. Pre-visualization implies that you have
> a mental image of
> > what it is that you'd like to see on your negative/positive.
>
> You see, pre-visualization is something a professional
> photographer has to use in
> order to get what is wanted from the picture he is selling.
> In my professional work,
> I am selling something that does not exist yet, someone is
> trusting in my ability in
> produce it.
> When I shoot for fun, either pinhole, zone plate or whatever
> I am doing (I'm getting
> pretty found of old cameras w.o. a light meter), I am trying
> more and more to be
> like a random shooter. I really want the images I get to
> surprise me. I have a
> primary intention when pointing the camera to something, but
> leave a very broad
> possibilities for what might come from that.
> Maybe I'm just tired of the commercial work :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Joao
>

I like this latter approach also, Joao. Placing a camera in places otherwise inaccessible to the photographer or attached to things in motion, is a way to create an image without much of a preconceived idea of what the resulting image will be - seeing the negative and print can be a pleasant surprise.

- Gregg
Received on Tue Oct 23 13:29:58 2001