[My apologies! I thought I had posted this yesterday around mid-day, and was mystified this morning to find no comments on it. But it was my fault—I got it all ready and then neglected to hit the "Publish" button. Give me a little more practice, I will learn how to do this yet. —Mike]
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A reader named Hugh wrote a perspicacious remark to the "Coda" publish. He says,
"'Spray and Pray' is a cliché. Limiting the number of exposures you take is laziness, either at the taking stage, or at the modifying stage. I've achieved the '12 sheets of colossal layout movie to final a weekend' issue, and i've shot 19 rolls of B&W 35mm film in a day, processed it tomorrow, and printed right here day. there is a spot for both methods, but I feel you growth sooner with the aid of being productive, now not by using imposing synthetic limits."
a legitimate opinion, one I greatly believe. but I couldn't aid mirror that it's phrased only a tad...aggressively, shall we say? or not it's undeniable as a statement of Hugh's own values, but the judgments of others it implies are a mite amazing for my style. despite the fact that, looking back, I've determined that in my opinion I must cop to his accusation of laziness!
To name only one illustration, or not it's tough to analyze Jamie Livingston's monumental legacy and affiliate his restrict of 1 Polaroid per day with laziness in any method.
by using nature i am relentlessly a middlebrow autodidact, so I vicinity a excessive cost on experimenting with distinct methods of working and giving consideration to the information of others. I at all times need to learn. And as a terminally pissed off trainer I commonly make tips myself, youngsters it truly is all they are.
however the highest precept, in my view, is that once it comes to approaches and strategies in images, everyone receives to make a decision for him- or herself. If one adult decides to spray-and-pray, okay. If one more decides to limit exposures severely, in the end it's as much as them.
The same even goes for productivity. consider just a few writers. The Welsh poet Dylan Thomas posted 90 poems in his lifetime; however they have been of sufficient have an effect on on earth that Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minnesota, chose the stage identify Bob Dylan in homage. Emily Dickinson posted none of hers. on the different extreme we've Alexandre Dumas, who wrote The Three Musketeers and some 250(!) different novels, and romance novelist Barbara Cartland, who reportedly wrote seven-hundred(!!) books. (that is about ten years of reading on the rate I read.)
there is productive, after which there's productive. i am pretty certain i would not exchange all of Emily Dickinson for all of Barbara Cartland. No offense intended*. i ponder what number of people sooner or later will read the least famous of Cartland's books? Drew Nellins Smith wrote, "i have been struck via the notion that there should be would becould very well be no books more lost than these buried within the overwhelming bibliographies of authors who've without problems published too damn a good deal."
Stephen King wrote about that identical area in 2015. He comes down on the other side of Smith, as we may predict.
but lower back to images. provided that you might be now not taking funds to do what a person else tells you to, then your choices are up to you. And provided that you might be now not hurting or endangering anybody or anything (or your self...or, mainly, children(!!!)), most of those selections are ok, too.
Mike
*within the automobile this afternoon I heard a comic who talked about if his spouse and sweetheart's mother are any indication, which you can say any unkind issue you desire about any individual as long as you set a bless their heart at the end. He then went on to riff on some humorous examples. So probably I should say "i wouldn't exchange all of Emily Dickinson for all of Barbara Cartland, bless her coronary heart."
[New Amazon link to come, but I need breakfast first.]
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