Luminous Landscape Forum
Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: nutcracker on November 27, 2013, 07:35:22 am
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Very stimulating and well expressed, and encouraging for photographic enthusiasts, who have made their living ardently pursuing other professions, and who apply their dedication to an interest such as photography. And as usual, great interview and presentation by Kevin Raber. Antarctica 2014 should be fun with the pair of them.
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Well I must admit that I'm a bit envious of the freedom that Miles has being able to follow his passion the way he does. The time he has devoted has paid off with some remarkable images that obviously can be printed large, large, large. I like what he said about the historical relevance of his early images that he took in China.
Now for us mere mortals who may never afford a trip on the Kimberly, can we have a Ruinous Landscape. Kevin and Michael can interview some young hipsters who still live with their parents. When asked to look at their gear, they would pull out 5 year old DSLR's and everyone would gasp. Their prints will be simply gorgeous but on the edgy side. Of course they still are printing on Epson 2200's. While photographing on location, Michael is mugged and his Sony NEX 7 is taken by a gang of analog photographers. This results in a high speed chase - Shewe is driving. Finally the gear is returned and everyone comes home with beautiful images.
In all seriousness, I did seeing the work that Miles produced. Hopefully down the road I'll be traveling the world again. Oh and count me in for Namibia! That sounds simply outrageous!
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No need to get envious.
You can get a cheap 4x5" camera, an Epson V 750 scanner (or let scan) and have an
awesome set to make great images you can print large for a totally affordable price.
You might need to sell your DSLR kit for that. ;)
For an amateur a totally viable way.
One way to define freedom is, that it is what you are able to do despite of difficult circumstances.
It all starts in the head.
Cheers
~Chris
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Well I must admit that I'm a bit envious of the freedom ... Now for us mere mortals who may never afford a trip on the Kimberly...
HSakols who lives on the doorstep to Yosemite?
I guess the grass is always greener… :-)
otoh Unfamiliar scenes do seem to provoke a response in a way that the familiar does not.
otoh There's satisfaction in finding a fresh way to see what had seemed all too familiar.
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I think that what seemed quite interesting to me about Miles was the fact that photography has been a hobby.
There have been times when folks post, looking for advice about how to become pro photographers. It isn't always the reply they wish, but I have sometimes suggested that they forget the professional side of it, make their living elsewhere, and do the snapping for themselves, free from external pressure. That's been taken as a wish to annihilate competition: not so - I'm long out of it; my only competition is with staying alive.
I think that I offer that advice from experience: the parts of the career that gave the most pleasure were, essentially, those commissions where I was given a budget and told to come back with photographs. Period. It would seem that those days are long gone; today, the work would entail a troupe of hangers-on of various types, and 'advice' from each and every one. You really, really equate that with doing your thing? And, of course, seems the money mostly sucks, and you have to give them a movie, too. For the same price. Which is less than it used to be.
Nobody snows an amateur like that - unless he wants to be snowed, of course, as many agencies have found.
Stay the hobbyist! If you want to be the pro, you will be, despite yourself.
Rob C
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Enjoyed the video/article very much. interesting topics and a great chat in many respect.
That spark in the eye when taking the lens out of the case.., we all know this don’t we :)