tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post577549731823463991..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: Here's some ideasamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-51726404338980242582015-12-11T10:53:42.121-08:002015-12-11T10:53:42.121-08:00If you're gonna call BS on anything here it sh...If you're gonna call BS on anything here it should be the dubious appropriation of 'curation' to describe self editing and selection of images for a project. But somehow I think that horse bolted long, long ago (in Internet years at least).<br /><br />I've attended workshops and seminars with far more serious photographers than MT and not one has ever destined thier process as curation. Probably because they have been curated and accessions into major galleries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-63788856791345750422015-12-11T06:54:30.440-08:002015-12-11T06:54:30.440-08:00Actually, the mantra I was taught for interviewing...Actually, the mantra I was taught for interviewing might work for sequencing, too: Can they do the job? Will they do the job? Will they fit in?<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-71214915630266431752015-12-11T06:50:35.613-08:002015-12-11T06:50:35.613-08:00Photos don't have feelings ... ? What??Photos don't have feelings ... ? What??Mike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-2388294411673895242015-12-11T06:01:57.425-08:002015-12-11T06:01:57.425-08:00Technical workshops are quite a different beast an...Technical workshops are quite a different beast and can of course be wonderful.<br /><br />Do you think of them as improving your photography, or simply teaching you a useful skill which you may be able to use in the work your already feeling pretty good about?<br />amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-30145621965550258592015-12-11T06:00:11.355-08:002015-12-11T06:00:11.355-08:00I have done a bit of hiring, actually. Well, inter...I have done a bit of hiring, actually. Well, interviewing anyways. Gonna have to think about similarities to picking photos, but I do see your point.<br /><br />In both cases I find that there's usually a clear winner, albeit usually by a nose or less if the candidate pool had any depth.<br /><br />The differences are that photos don't have feelings, and our impressions of people can be much more thoroughly wrong. Interviewing is not the same as working with, but looking at a picture remains much the same.<br /><br />Can a job description be more usefully disassembled into facets, each judged one by one, than a picture's spot in a book? That's a really good question. Ultimately both are very holistic.amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-12371572969579432182015-12-11T04:31:36.330-08:002015-12-11T04:31:36.330-08:00Are not workshops a continuation of higher educati...Are not workshops a continuation of higher education? And how does one see with the inner & outer eye? Sounds like a mystification of the process of visualization.<br />I've only taken two workshops and both were helpful. One was technical: platinum/palladium printing with Tilman Crane. The other was on visualization and presentation by Smith & Chamlee. The visualization was really just Ed Weston's dictum of being open to where you are at for subject matter [look down at your feet]. <br />I agree that most workshops I've seen advertized are BS with only benefit to the instructor, but some are by photographers that I respect. A Sexton workshop, for example, would be valuable to me.DougHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-13434223544129477242015-12-11T00:59:51.661-08:002015-12-11T00:59:51.661-08:00"I don't care if you have 2 candidate fra..."I don't care if you have 2 candidate frames or 1000, if you have a clear idea of what the frame is supposed to do, there's 1 and only 1 from the candidates that will do it best. If you can't choose it, it's because you don't have an adequately clear idea of what it's supposed to do."<br /><br />Hmm, I suspect you've never done much interviewing for jobs... It can be a heartbreaking (and, in the end, irrational) process, winnowing 500+ candidates down into a shortlist, then picking The One, no matter how clear you are. Sequencing photos is quite similar, I find. But a bit of heartbreak and irrationality is good for anyone...<br /><br />OTOH, I *love* the idea of Bullshit Workshops -- forget the cameras and the paints, just assemble sparky gatherings of like-minded strangers, add intoxicants, and talk all night! Going to have to steal that one...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-57312090892711750472015-12-10T15:40:06.816-08:002015-12-10T15:40:06.816-08:00Technical perfection is a tyranny of first class B...Technical perfection is a tyranny of first class BS, good work can be blurry or out of focus and still be really powerful a prime example of great work that is not perfect; Daido Morriyama. People would be better served if they spent the money they would on these "workshops" buying monograms by various great photographers and visiting galleries of both photography and other arts, though they will have to look not glance at the works spending time on each one. AlexGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18145006441964616851noreply@blogger.com