He's gone off on his annual month long mental break, and left this note on his site, excerpted...
Photography is art. There's no rules in art. Do whatever you want and have fun while you're at it. If somebody tells you that you're 'wrong' for doing something a certain way, just have a good chuckle to yourself and keep on shootin'. Feel free to break with the norm, go in your own direction, and blaze your own trail.
Right on!
:smile:Thom said:Everyone seems to want the paint-by-numbers, step-by-step approach to image conversion and processing. Funny thing is, of the images that I do show on this site, the ones that have provoked the most positive response have always been the ones in which I didn't use normal methods of processing. And for those, there's no "just do this" method that can be documented.
So do yourself a favor and act like a kid once in awhile. You don't have to have a reason to do something. You don't have to do what everyone else is doing. You can ignore the rules and instruction books and yes, even your teacher. That's how children learn who they are and what they can do. Don't shut off the child in you (or the child in your children, for that matter). Free your inner child and you never know what you might find.
Photography is art. There's no rules in art. Do whatever you want and have fun while you're at it. If somebody tells you that you're 'wrong' for doing something a certain way, just have a good chuckle to yourself and keep on shootin'. Feel free to break with the norm, go in your own direction, and blaze your own trail.
Right on!