tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414252035088114871.post5099186698867657726..comments2023-10-18T20:19:55.301+07:00Comments on JAGAT FOTOGRAFI: Inhibition and Audience Effect: What Happens When A Photographer Loses Interests in His Photography?Ekihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17128624439430370669noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414252035088114871.post-21921750623215682162008-09-23T07:26:00.000+07:002008-09-23T07:26:00.000+07:00Interesting article. I for one know how it feels t...Interesting article. I for one know how it feels to not be able to meet our own expected standards, which I have to say, sometimes are placed way beyond what we're capable of at the moment. And I think the internet partly contributes to that... These days, it's extremely easy to access all sorts of information regarding photography, from your basic gear-know-how to some highly sophisticated philosophical view behind a photographer's body of works. There is no more barrier in learning, ordinary photo enthusiasts like us are now able to learn the very same materials directed at seasoned photographers. <BR/><BR/>As a result, the said photo enthusiasts are now suddenly being exposed to a whole different level of understanding photographs at a rapid pace... Now we know that the visual presentation of photographs is merely a surface, a gate, from which a deeper content could (and should) be found inside. And yet, despite all the information we can get in a relatively short span, experiences still don't come overnight. And I think that simple fact somehow frustrates some of us. We (kind of) get the idea of how our photographs *should* look like, yet we couldn't figure out how to achieve that cause... well, perhaps it's simply not our time yet. Well known photographers must have failed photos too over those years, a whole bunch of them, we just don't see them and thus it makes us think that we should constantly make good photos like what we see of them... we often forget that bad photos ARE important. <BR/><BR/>Add to that the passive audience factor you stated earlier --and not to mention the commentaries made by the majority of photography community who are mostly casual hobbyist with no further intention of understanding photography than making a better good looking photo, and it's pretty understandable how some of us could get the feeling of not moving anywhere. <BR/><BR/>I mean, it does make you smile bitterly sometimes when you show a photo with Winogrand in mind and got someone telling you that there's no "point of interest" in your photo. ;)Widhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07872788526785753528noreply@blogger.com