EXPOSURE INFO: Canon 30D, 100mm 2.8 macro, 1/200th sec @ f11, ISO 200
San Francisco, CA – The task of “culling” patently bad shots out of the mass of images you’ve made usually is a pretty cut-and-dry procedure: totally black or white images, shots of your feet, up your nose, extremely blurry or unflattering shots are easily dispensed with and you then move on to the business of finding wheat amonst the chaff in the resulting collection.
There are times when an image that, under the parameters of your assignment, is certainly not fit for delivery to your client but nevertheless has some sort of visual appeal of its own. This is one of those images.
Ian Aleksander Adams has a post today worth reading titled, On Ambition and the Photographic Lifestyle where he ruminates on the state of the fine art photography world today:
“The art world is dominated, for the most part, by a fanatical adoration of subject (so work can be easily promoted and blurbed about) and object (as in the actual salable print or sculpture, etc.)”
It may just be the nascent curmudgeon in me, but I really can’t bear this trend where many photographers feel compelled to greet you with music when you arrive on their website. If that’s not bad enough, the music is almost always either some kind of schmaltzy guitar/piano rambling (mostly the women photogs) OR endlessly looped techno/electronica/industrial glop (the men).
Whatever happened to just letting a photograph “speak” for itself? I understand that websites are an integral part of of a marketing program but is music really necessary?
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