ONE
I talked with a woman working in a photography school.
“The first year, all our students work on analog photography only!”
Waow, in the the digital era, it’s a big deal, right?
Every cam today can keep hundreds or thousands of pictures on a little cheap SD Card. It’s so easy to try, trigger, take bunches of photos until you have a great one, that some photographers buy vintage cams to get :
- the splendid grain or texture of real film rolls
- but also the necessary meticulousness of the whole process
Choosing a brand for films, choosing settings for the cam, choosing how and when you take a picture, developing : all this becomes important, much more important : rolls are expensive!
This makes you focus.
Therefore it makes perfect sense to begin photography with analog cams.
TWO
Picasso or Klimt and many other painters began with the big knowledge of being great “classical” artists. Manet began to make what ignorants called “mistakes” (showing paintbrush strokes, flattening perspectives). Picasso told that he needed years to un-learn it :
THREE
Martin L. Gore, composer/singer of Depeche Mode, explains that a song, before going to production with synths and beat-boxes, has to “sound” great with a single voice/acoustic guitar. Before. If it’s good, you can alter textures : the harmonic structure stays good.
TOOL
Where else do we find and use this pattern?
“Know the difficult core of your Art before exploring it, breaking rules or pushing it: you’ll be better”.
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