Hilarious “dos and don’ts of photography” list
Posted 12 April, 2006 in Op-Ed
Don’t: Cyanotypes and Cross-processing Both of these are Alternative Processes, which is a required course in most college photo programs. It’s like forcing a painting class to forage for their pigments amid nuts and flowers. “Alternative” means experimenting with the flexibility of the print-film process or something. Cyanotypes are all blue and splotchy. Cross-processing is where the colors are supersaturated, like that movie 21 Grams. Like using filters in Photoshop, it always looks bad.
Don’ts: Cell-phone Cameras, Cindy Sherman, Closeups, Crooked framing, saying “Cheese”
Dos: Color, Cinematographers, Collages, Cartes de visite (small portraits, about the size of a business card, popular during the 1860s)
If the author is serious, [s]he is a complete wanker, but ironic or not, the whole list is funny as hell. Read it at Viceland.com. ([S]/He is also wrong. Cross processing can yield muted pastel or black and white as well as saturated palettes, and cyanotypes are usually blue but can be toned to a variety of non-blue colors and are only splotchy if you make them that way.)
My dos and don’ts are: do shoot however you want to and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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April 12, 2006 at 5:21 pm -
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Grelf
April 12, 2006 at 5:39 pm -
Dos: Shoot, shoot, shoot…
Donts: Be lazy. -
Nicolai
April 12, 2006 at 5:50 pm -
OK, that works.
Do: take your imaging device with you everywhere.
Don’t: leave home without it. -
paul
April 12, 2006 at 6:38 pm -
My submission: Shoot early and shoot often.
Actually, this is part of my new approach, as a result of my pinhole experiments: Perfection is Overrated. Seriously, anyone can take a “perfect” picture (ie, perfectly exposed, with accurate color, what most people care about). But there’s more (and less) to it than that.
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