Photography Thailand Forum

[Marc Schultz]

Some other very good words of wisdom from another photographer whose name alludes me at the moment unfortunately:

amateurs worry about equipment,
professionals worry about money,
technical shooters worry about pixels,
journos worry about frame rates,
masters worry about light,
I just make pictures…

[Marc Schultz]

Marc--Liked the quotes. These are from the brilliant Jay Maisel.

"Garbage in, garbage out. If it doesn’t look good in the view finder, it ain’t gonna get better by passing through the camera."

"If it doesn’t excite you The thing that you see Why in the world Would it excite me?"

Good ones too David. As for the first one though, I am not sure it always holds true all of the time anymore. And then there was Photoshop :)

[David Salmanowitz]

Marc--I think Photoshop or whatever post processing program one uses can make a good photo even better, if not great sometimes--but a lousy photo is a lousy photo and probably should have been deleted in the first place. Especially in this digital age with so many more photos coming out of our cameras one needs to be ruthless in their editing, otherwise the hard drives will fill faster with images that are not portfolio quality. Granted, there are instances where one might want to keep a not great shot for assorted reasons (sentimental, only known species pic, ...) but if done regularly one will have many images that should have been gotten rid of. Another Jay Maisel nugget. "If you’re not your own severest critic, you’re your own worst enemy."  I could go on but I need to get back to editing.