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Thoughts that I often follow, phrases that I often use (often - comic):
- Favorite camera - the one in the hands.
- A favorite picture is a picture of a loved one.
- The photographer quickly and accurately determines the movement of the entire shooting.
- The photographer assumes all responsibility for his actions and decisions.
- Contrast kills color.
- Nikon or Canon? It doesn’t matter when there is money.
- Nikon or Canon? The correct answer is 'go to photography school'.
- Nikon or Canon? Photoshop always wins!
- The photographer is rated on the basis of the five worst shots (the Lynx taught me this).
- Cold? Learn to take off with gloves.
- Cold? Shoot in the studio.
- You take pictures of the bride in winter, in the cold, and everyone is frozen - you are a loser!
- You are filming a pregnant bride in the winter and only the registry office - congratulations, you're done!
- My best photo was taken with 'not what', but 'with whom!' (Look for someone to shoot!)
- My best photos were taken 'not by what', but 'where and when!'. (Look for the location and time of the shoot!)
- In most cases, you take pictures of what is inside of you and how is inside of you.
- Yes, I photograph flowers and birds - I have flowers and birds inside.
- The client is always right. It's a service industry baby! If the client says that he does not have a double chin - remove the double chin! In photos from DSC_1987.JРG to DSC_9000.JРG inclusive!
- Why take one photo if you can take two? (this is my favorite saying).
- Pleiner in summer, studio in winter.
- A wedding photography at the beginning of the journey is a beautiful illusion.
- Only an idiot can dream of becoming a wedding photographer in Ukraine. One needs to dream about becoming a very good wedding photographer. I dream most often about how to add another review.
- I am an applied mathematician by education and I know what percentage to give for a client.
- Sharp for the client! Sharp customer!
- Noises - to print!
- Photoshop to the priests, if you have the usual TN.
- It's disgusting to look at your pictures processed on a bad monitor. Bought a cool camera? Buy a cool monitor!
- 100 weddings - and you're a cynic!
- As a surgeon, I cut people in batches.
- It seems to me that an experienced surgeon is most like an experienced photographer. Both are aware of the insides of people.
- My operator Kolya always says - there is sun and no sun - diaphragm five and six!
- My cameraman knows photography better than all these photo gurus. He says - take pictures of people? Be a psychologist!
- For two years I could not see how the light falls on some photographs, I was always surprised that other pros immediately see and recognize complex or interesting light in the photo. Those who take up photography are blind, they have to learn to see.
- I can go to ordinary films and watch them in 3D. Damn brain guesses about light sources.
- Models look at facial expressions, members of the forum look at the background or sharpness, bombiles look at the budget, and pros know the behavior of the first three types.
- I do not like 'soap', 'hole', 'carcass'. I use other words.
- The first mistake many novice photographers in our countries make is the hellish lightroom presets.
- World! Work! Fix!
- I am ashamed of 99% of my shots.
- I delete more photos per day than some take in my whole life.
- The idea that many homebrew photographers can design a lens with crystal lenses with zero aberrations does not go out of my head, but ask them to show at least one picture - they dissolve like fog.
- One of my favorite photos - Pale Blue Dot and her description by Carl Sagan.
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I liked it, really liked it, however, paragraph 31 (an old rule, as far as I know) is distorted, because it is not rhyme. There is no sun or there is - aperture 5 and 6. It seems that it should be))
Thanks for the wise remarks!
half of the writing is just tinsel,
40. paragraph does not apply to the photographer,
and so generally there are interesting thoughts.
Normal thoughts!
About 41 did not understand.
39 - fully support
Are you ashamed of 99% of Arkady’s shots?
Ours, my friend, ours ... Self-criticism is a good thing. The main thing is not to overdo it))
Everything stated point by point can be called a “manifesto” of a photographer with a philosophical bias. :)
On many points, as if I read it to myself. On point 42 - a very strong commentary on the picture, but unfortunately, Sagan's thoughts are like our planet is a grain of sand ...
Lord Cynics! Here is the cynic's judgment: if your audience does not like your work (it does not understand it, does not perceive it correctly) then this is either not your audience, or you are a bad photographer. Dot. Now I will explain. Photography can have two main components: commercial and artistic. Everything is complicated with art photography. It has no rules. This is the way I see it. Sometimes (very rarely) the photographer's vision coincides with the viewer's vision. Then the works find an emotional response. Commercial photography is a tool for making money. Everything is very clear here. In it a man with a camera is an employee. The main task of any mercenary is to convince the customer that the presented result is exactly what he was expecting, and to get the maximum reward for his work. For these purposes, in commercial photography, “creative” approaches and artistic techniques are used with varying success (this is art, I see it that way!) However, if the customer is also not done with a finger, he knows what he wants and is able to answer: “but I don’t see ”, For example, this is a designer, then it remains either to just do the necessary work, or to argue further. It's like someone. The rest of philosophy is ordinary masturbation. Amen.
I agree on one thing. The main thing in “custom” photography is to convince the customer that what you got is exactly what he wanted.
unfortunately, it is not even necessary to be a photographer here - a well-hung tongue and basic knowledge of psychology are the most important factors.
42. whole entity
What contrast kills color?
this phrase usually means that thoughtless contrast enhancement is very bad for color.
Great notes. It's nice that I also reached the majority of points during my hobby. And even found himself in paragraph 41 :)
Arrogantly, but truthfully.
letters about nothing
So yes, Radozhiv is full of comments and commentators about nothing ...
Class, straight vital and almost to tears)))
Photoshop to priests, if you have a regular TN. - please explain to the newbie.
TN displays colors incorrectly. At what each in its own way. In contrast to this type, the IP-ES matrix has the ability to calibrate. Accordingly, with VT you can wind up so that on other monitors it will look awful.
Great notes! A small correction: if you shoot in Siberia, Yakutia or Chukotka, you need to learn how to remove fingerless gloves quickly, because at -45 hands with gloves are already freezing and you need to wear gloves on top. Well, take out the camera very quickly, otherwise the grease freezes, it's a pity the equipment. Carry a thermal bag with you to slowly warm the device after frost (this is for an amateur, I don’t know what the pros do). The main thing is to solve the condensate problem in the car.
And if you carry in the trunk? There is not such a temperature difference with the street. I do like this. True, we do not have -45)
In Patriot, the trunk is part of the cabin :) It is possible on the roof, but at these temperatures the grease can freeze. Its characteristics by SAE are not known to me. Honestly, the temperature for shooting with nikon is somewhere around -25, -30 is quite comfortable, I take it with me on skis, and my batteries are too late. But fingers freeze even at this temperature.
subjectively for fingers, temperature (up to -30 at least) is not so important, the main thing is that there should be no wind
And if objectively? Have you personally tried to take off without gloves at this temperature? Already at zero minutes after 10 fingers stop working normally.
Dmitry, then in the casing of the spare tire)))
From the Soul!
Arkady, thank you so much for your work! I wish you success and prosperity!
Photoshop to the priests, if you have the usual TN.
It's disgusting to look at your pictures processed on a bad monitor. Bought a cool camera? Buy a cool monitor!
I do not agree!
The sound is also reduced on cool monitors and checked in mono on the trash.
if it “sat down” (not a “village”, but sat down in its place)) this is it!
Why take one photo if you can take two? (this is my favorite saying)
and thus reduce the resource of technology by half !? it’s not professional. Each frame has a cost price.
IMHO)
... But don't explain to me that this is the Earth in a picture from distant space ...
I would have thought “some kind of daub, not a photo”
all you thought correctly, that is a daub! and everything else is pathos, I can also give a shit on Easter cake, and when the parishioners begin to eat it and begin to curl their face afterwards - say it is the taste of the Lord !!!
All this is subjective….
Like in a joke about filming a movie:
Sound engineer:
- I hear nothing!
Operator:
- I do not see anything!
Producer:
- I like this!
Arkady. There are many wise thoughts and even practical advice in your forty-two points. But I'm talking about something else. Has long been subscribed to your photoblog Radozhiv. And all the time I have a question: “Joyous” - what does this word mean? I may not be the first to ask this. Clarified, please.
so many show-offs .. that I, as a Buddhist, felt very uncomfortable and ashamed that I - used his publication to select the first shovel optics and, in principle, that I read it ...
after reading Mein Kampf, I have a feeling of “UNCOMPLAY” - IT WAS LESS !!!
Wow