Photography hot takes!

[awty]

AA was a mediocre photographer. However, he was a master printer, he could pull a rabbit out of a hat.

AA had natural talent, what he did was to convince people who had no talent that they to could make pictures if they bought his book.

 

[Cholentpot]

So far most of these are wrong. I think I get it now.

Look up what a 'hot take' is.

It's OK for the process to be more important to you than the final picture, because it's OK for your photographs,(and yes even your *art*) to just be for you.

This is a zen level few get to in their heads.

No one aside from my family sees 95% of my work. If I share I get 'You should publish these on instafacetokmarketbooktube!' It's my personal stuff, when I'm dead you can do what you want with it. I enjoy taking photos and the process. It's fun, it's mentally stimulating and keeps my mind sharp.

 

[xkaes]

Do you print your own negatives? Otherwise everything is digital.

I don't print my own negatives. I make prints from my own negatives. I guess that makes them digital.

 

[Milpool]

No need. Since it’s almost all been nonsense so far I figure a “hot take” is one of those things that means the opposite of what you’d expect, like in the old days if you said something was bad it meant it was good.

A few of the hot tales are fairly accurate though so they should be moved.

Look up what a 'hot take' is.

 

[thinkbrown]

It's OK for the process to be more important to you than the final picture, because it's OK for your photographs,(and yes even your *art*) to just be for you.

Honestly this is (in my opinion) the whole reason to shoot film. If I wasn't driven by the process, I would shoot digital and get results of equal or better quality with less work.

 

[gbroadbridge]

It must be better, because it's difficult.

 

[cirwin2010]

Film looks better than digital - and digital looks the way it looks and shouldn't be made to look like film. Own your medium.

There are no rules in art. But, the purist in me agrees. Let the medium be what it is and embrace it. Shooting film only to scan it on a flatbed TO ME feels like a waste. Print it in the darkroom to really get the most out of it. Does it make the photo better to the average audience? No, probably not, but I will think its cooler

AA was a mediocre photographer. However, he was a master printer, he could pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Spicy! I'm going to say I mostly disagree on your take that he is a mediocre photographer. He was a master of the medium as far as knowing how to get the most workable negatives for print and in my opinion did take some really stunning photographs. The Tetons and the Snake River and Morning Sunrise come to mind. But where I can't really argue is that if Ansel Adams lived today and made the same images, they probably wouldn't stand out as much in the crowd. He was the first to photograph some of these locations (at least as well or as thoroughly) so you could argue that the aforementioned crowd was a product of his own work. Regardless I think much of his reputation is a product of his time, but I still love his work.

 

[Cholentpot]

No need. Since it’s almost all been nonsense so far I figure a “hot take” is one of those things that means the opposite of what you’d expect, like in the old days if you said something was bad it meant it was good.

A few of the hot tales are fairly accurate though so they should be moved.

'Hot take' is just slang for an opinion. Maybe a slightly out there opinion.

 

[thinkbrown]

'Hot take' is just slang for an opinion. Maybe a slightly out there opinion.

Yeah, it's specifically a controversial opinion in common use.

 

[Don_ih]

I thought "hot take" was what they used in porn when they managed to film an eruption....

 

[Dali]

The more time you spend on forums, the less you take pictures.