A piece in improv

Mainecoonmaniac · Feb 7, 2019

This might be useful for photographers. How many times you were so inhibited with the possibility of taking a bad photo that you just don't take the shot? With the improv spirit, you just get into the Zone a tap into the creative void.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...nd-improv-performance/?utm_term=.bc339d396089

Bruce Walker · Feb 7, 2019

Any potential secrets of that article will remain forever locked up for me. I cannot stand that style of "infinite vertical scrolling with sliding under crap" that has become popular in some circles. Ack!!

I believe that the secret to improv is: the more you practice, the better you get. Interviews of jazz musicians I've read revealed that those free-wheeling, off-the-cuff sounding solos are the result of hours and hours of practice, daily. They effectively string together dozens of well rehearsed segments, snippets, what have you.

jvo · Feb 8, 2019

i make too many bad photographs, i should pay more attention to my inner critic!

slackercrurster · Feb 8, 2019

With street work, just press the button. If you don't shoot, you are guaranteed you get nothing. If you shoot, then you have a small chance at getting something.

Down Under · Feb 10, 2019

slackercrurster said:
With street work, just press the button. If you don't shoot, you are guaranteed you get nothing. If you shoot, then you have a small chance at getting something.

+1000. The perfect antidote - the machine gun technique.

Monkeys and typewriters. You may never write the Bible that way, but does the world really need another Bible?

In this sense, digital has been a godsend to us. Talent, creativity, application, you name it - going back to the 1960s, every successful photographer I've spoken to who has been honest about his success, has told me the same thing. Safety in numbers. Shoot, shoot, shoot. One in a hundred will be your best shot. Quietly hide away or dispose of the rest and feast off the adulation your cronies on photo sites such as this one will invariably feed you.

As proof, let me sum up what I have just written in two words. National Geographic.

Thank you. I rest my case.

jtk · Feb 11, 2019

ozmoose said:
+1000. The perfect antidote - the machine gun technique.

Monkeys and typewriters. You may never write the Bible that way, but does the world really need another Bible?

In this sense, digital has been a godsend to us. Talent, creativity, application, you name it - going back to the 1960s, every successful photographer I've spoken to who has been honest about his success, has told me the same thing. Safety in numbers. Shoot, shoot, shoot. One in a hundred will be your best shot. Quietly hide away or dispose of the rest and feast off the adulation your cronies on photo sites such as this one will invariably feed you.

As proof, let me sum up what I have just written in two words. National Geographic.

Thank you. I rest my case.

Slacker's Media images and regular posts tell me that there's a lot more to his "godsend" than machine-gunning.

A piece in improv

Mainecoonmaniac

Bruce Walker

jvo

slackercrurster

Down Under

jtk

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