I just discovered that this was not on The Online Photographer, but elsewhere. So in order to put the world to rights:
http://blog.kasson.com/?page_id=1858
Thank you for the link: provided good reading between courses today at the diner! (What a wonderful difference that buying a new battery did for my cellphone 'experience', as these things are now described!)
But again, it underscores the gulf between am. and pro. thought: I can't remember being posessed of these 'previs' obsessions at any stage during the many years I had to earn my risky crust via a camera. Come to think of it, and thinking takes a lot out of me sometimes - the only period when such a thought has arisen, vis-á-vis photography, has been since my time here on LuLa. It used to be a simple, automatic process of just getting on with the job in hand. I fail to see why the am. finds that difficult to understand - unless it goes even deeper, and right down to the Terry Donovan quotation I promised not to quote again, and provides an excuse for not actually doing anything much, because there isn't really anything very much that one
needs to photograph. I find that every day now, and defeat it by changing technique/focal length periods; for example, I have recently moved from shooting through smears of Vaseline to doing much the same through a VND filter. Passes the time otherwise inevitably spent on the navel. That neither activity brings in a dime matter not a jot: I need far more than a dime to see much betterment in my daily grind.
But I guess this preoccupation is a product of far too many pundits 'proving' themselves at the cost of their respective audience.
One meets some interesting characters online.
Rob C
