tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554007940979088731.post4376106425712179773..comments2023-05-13T10:51:11.506-04:00Comments on Donna Rosser: Just Say No to RedundancyDonna Rosserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17397276919878496360noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554007940979088731.post-35024716542655542332009-07-24T12:58:00.786-04:002009-07-24T12:58:00.786-04:00Hi Andy!
Thanks for the comment. In just a second...Hi Andy!<br />Thanks for the comment. In just a second I am heading over to see the new comment on your blog that you mentioned.<br /><br />I completely agree that in a slot canyon you will take the 'usual' shot -- but do we have to keep seeing the same old, same old in magazines?<br /><br />My husband has hung around enough photo events with me that even he will look at some pieces and then say, "How many times have you seen that?" Speaking with my show director hat on now -- when we were putting our nature show together we did not want a room full of calendar shots -- we wanted fresh and different -- and we got it! It made for an excellent show.Donna Rosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17397276919878496360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554007940979088731.post-81560314340667109372009-07-24T11:49:35.671-04:002009-07-24T11:49:35.671-04:00Donna: Thanks for the link back to my blog. I wa...Donna: Thanks for the link back to my blog. I want to comment on one aspect of this -- my comment was really looking at a more subtle unique view. What I was asking might have been, can you step into those footprints, and STILL create a "unique" photograph?<br /><br />Lets face it. For most of us, getting an opportunity to photograph slot canyons may only come around once or twice in a lifetime. So if I am there, I am going to shoot them. Sure, I will look for a unique perspective (and from a marketing standpoint, you almost have to, since the markets are so saturated with the "record" shots). But I am unapologetically going to take the record shot too. And I think that at least on some level, my "seeing" of the scene may be unique, even in those footsteps.<br /><br />I agree 100% that if you are there, you should look at the subject from your own unique perspective and not be looking for the "footsteps" or "tripod holes." Seems a bit hard to be "seeing" as a photographer if you are looking down anyway :-).<br /><br />Yesterday I posted some comments one of our mutual "old friends" sent me -- but he wanted anonymity, so I posted them. He brings an example and a new spin to "unique" that didn't ever occur to me when writing the blog entry. Worth a read and thinking about.Andy Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10706162093911160794noreply@blogger.com