NOT POSSIBLE, even Zeiss lenses on Leicas have to follow the laws of physics.
I am what most of you would call "self taught", but I have been schooled by every photographer, amateur and professional, who allowed me to visit and watch them work, both in the studio, outdoors, and in the darkroom. Always black & white. Hard to see anything in a darkroom when color is being printed. I have also benefitted from the school of personal experience, learning, I hope, from my mistakes.. Always thought formal photographic training might have saved some time but I don't think it would have been as much fun. Do it over again? Hell yes..........Regards!Back in 1995 I was President of the College Photo Department Advisory Board. It was a school where I took a Zone System class in1982 that refined my skills and made me commercially more viable to professional photographers. I was off to the races.
In 2002 I was asked to teach. At the time I could not imagine teaching photography; you were either a photographer at heart or you weren't: I worked my way out of the darkroom and on to sets and lighting. I was chained to a 4x5 and stacks of Ektachrome 64, Plus X and boxes of polaroid 664 and 665. My place in the industry was a function of well developed work ethic and solid skills.
I teach now, as a part of my work. I have a long history of working with people and leading organizations. I work with administrative people and with a wide variety of students at different skill levels. In the past I also trained photo assistants who got to me from sheer hustle. (Former restaurant workers made the best assistants; constantly busy.) This site is full of shooters. So I ask:
Are you self-taught or did you go to school to learn photography?
Geez, Siruis, don't be so serious: its a joke.NOT POSSIBLE, even Zeiss lenses on Leicas have to follow the laws of physics.
Oh man, you guys are killing me. It's a joke.I think he's confusing "plasticity" with "depth of field" .. some lenses depict changes of depth with more subtlety/smoothness. I don't think Leica lenses are among those, but some older Zeiss lenses have that capability.
self-taught and a bunch of good workshops;I don't think a school exists where one can learn all these skills in one place.Back in 1995 I was President of the College Photo Department Advisory Board. It was a school where I took a Zone System class in1982 that refined my skills and made me commercially more viable to professional photographers. I was off to the races.
In 2002 I was asked to teach. At the time I could not imagine teaching photography; you were either a photographer at heart or you weren't: I worked my way out of the darkroom and on to sets and lighting. I was chained to a 4x5 and stacks of Ektachrome 64, Plus X and boxes of polaroid 664 and 665. My place in the industry was a function of well developed work ethic and solid skills.
I teach now, as a part of my work. I have a long history of working with people and leading organizations. I work with administrative people and with a wide variety of students at different skill levels. In the past I also trained photo assistants who got to me from sheer hustle. (Former restaurant workers made the best assistants; constantly busy.) This site is full of shooters. So I ask:
Are you self-taught or did you go to school to learn photography?
A curiosity: did moving to eh more vocational aspect of the craft help or hinder your creativity?
Does industrial Archeology go back to stone knives and arrow heads or Industrial revolution stuff?
exactly !At some point, whether academically or self-taught, you take over and work the materials in the light on your own.
No, actually, you needed a Leica lens which has much better depth of field built into it. They use special glass...
Geez, Siruis, don't be so serious: its a joke.
Oh man, you guys are killing me. It's a joke.
that only works when you use the rare leica maraca editionWhen I started I thought that if you bounced the camera, like dotting an "i", when firing the shutter it would pronounce the focus better....
self-taught and a bunch of good workshops;I don't think a school exists where one can learn all these skills in one place.
What made you acquire these skills in the early days?
that only works when you use the rare leica maraca edition
Isn’t it the Leica M-araca?
It depends upon which side fo the ocean you are on, i.e., colour/color.Isn’t it the Leica M-araca?
I rather expect that Andrew can add some quite useful nuance to his comment.
But I would say that "teaching" photography to inexperienced people, even in the informal circumstances that I have done so, has energized, inspired and definitely interested me.
It can also be really satisfying.
And sometimes really entertaining too.
No, really. Did you see something you had to have? Did you just like the gismos? Were you after glamour?Simply put I wanted to. No other reason than that.
My mom had a Brownie in the shipyard housing in Richmond just postwar. She clearly had vision. I picked it up just out of Berkeley in 1975; it was my way of making the world hold still, even for just a moment.I started dabbling in photography in the late 1940s with an ancient folding Kodak with one instant shutter speed and an adjustable meniscus f/14 lens. Film data sheets and an encyclopedia were the first teachers. The photographic book library now has maybe 200 books, ancient and recent. A few courses on photography in college added a different perspective than just reading. A summer of photographing for the Army Corps of Engineers also helped. I bought my first Leica in 1953, and have been helped with a variety of good cameras, large and small, since then. Considering what can be learned from one's mistakes, I should be a master photographer by now, but am still learning on this and other forums, a good camera club, and seeing fine photos.
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