Digital BW, The Print

Tom,

Please feel free.  Thank you for asking.

Kevin

On 6/11/02 11:44 AM, "tom%fors.net@..." <tom@...> wrote:

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> Kevin, 
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> This is excellent advice!  I too suffer from a very dominant left brain.
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> I'd like to forward your message to our photo department mailing list at
> school with your permission.
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> Thanks
> --Tom
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> Original Message:
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> From: Kevin Gulstene kevin@...
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:30:22 -0700
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Right brain rehabilitation
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> I hope this personal missive is not OT for everyone -- bear with me if it is
> an obvious thing.  It has certainly helped me create much more satisfying
> images by subduing my dominant rational, analytical (and often frustrated)
> left brain.
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> For some time I had thought I had reached the limit of my equipment's
> ability to produce the best images I could.  I struggled with minute details
> and received increasingly small benefits.  The prints were getting
> technically better and better but _meant_ no more to me.
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> This led me to ask in a previous post what other people felt contributed
> most to the 'quality' of their images.  Among the good advice there was some
> great advice: that I may be focusing too much on equipment.  Instead of
> buying a LF camera I bought a Holga and relaxed.
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> There was something about holding that simple plastic camera with one
> shutter speed and one aperture that let me relax and focus on _seeing_
> things.  It is a much more holistic process than the formulae I used before
> and the images have much more meaning for me.  Some days I now go out to try
> and capture a feeling instead of a preconceived arrangement of things. It is
> almost like a state of mind - a kind of relaxed attentiveness, if that makes
> any sense.
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> Perhaps these are natural steps in an evolving skill.  Perhaps craft
> improves incrementally until a quantum change in seeing/interpreting is
> needed, then incremental changes is craft can resume.  Perhaps my head has
> softened irreparably <g>
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> Kevin Gulstene
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