Creative Photography Wrestling
Does the 21st technology help or hinder artistic, independent photography?
"The 21st Century Photographer remains open to the exploration and use of a variety of processes, techniques, and technologies so long as the chosen method(s) most concisely articulate their creative vision. A net result of this paradigm shift is not only complete artistic freedom but also a palpable sense of empowerment. Historically photography has marched down the long path of process obsolescence - one in which new techniques replace old in a continual cycle of progress. In a 21st Century approach, however, control is wrestled from profit driven agencies -corporations, advertisers, and the marketplace all promoting a consumptive photographic model- and given to the artist/photographer. By virtue of taking the responsibility of control, photographers allow themselves to use a pastiche of tools and materials to make pictures. It is this freedom -which is new for many- that empowers and fuels the 21st Century Photographer."
I do love experimenting in the darkroom more than digital but I believe you need talent to get anywhere in any medium, including film or digital. It takes a lot of work to try to make a bad photo acceptable on the computer and it's not worth the time wasted. Even Photoshop has limits.
You can polish a turd, but it's still a turd.
Heidi Arm Wrestling
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