dee
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It's a kind of follow on from the camera as 'therapy' thread , but it's also about distance creating a new dee stance [ groan ]
Perusing the post Ipoh / Malaysia photos , at 1st , I was disturbed to find a similar 75% out of focus , not straight , blurred by camera shake .
The usual stuff . Many I knew about , some a result of the glacial AF of the X-Pro and my lack of learning ...
As ever , beating myself up as behind real people once again .
i HAVE to have a camera with me , even if it's a Kontax , previously SRT without film .
I have no idea why , but knowing it is there calms me . That a digital can actually be used without cost [ film ] is a bonus .
...... But then I found the experience of snaking through a market in the dark , blurred shots from the car of roadside shops / buildings / mopeds / and a bus .... hasty shots without framing to be dee's crete in a market restaurant ... all brought home the atmosphere of having to keep up , of being dependant upon others to take us anywhere ...some of the discomfort among the three sisters ...and the determination to compile my own story .
It brought back vividly , like a continuation of our visit in 1974 , familiar but recognising changes which ASD is great at .
No perfect photos would capture my own dee ficulties with remembering settings , the problems with hand / eye co ordination and sheer sense of separation from guy/girl which stifles joining in .
Being a distance away from home , helped create an acceptance of the glitches I cope with in snap shooting and everything else . OK Interior Design was relatively ' real ' but little else qualifies .
Why should snap shooting be otherwise ?
Not becoming anxious about failing is as if a burden has been lifted . I revisited other stories amongst my photos and found a similar sense of atmosphere and being there once again .
My parents and grandparents black and white photos from pre 1960 are not very sharp or in focus . Of course ,we now have the cameras to fix this , but they are no less atmospheric .
I guess it took a strange new camera and a country right around the world to open another chapter in being some form of 'ME'.
This post is about the magic of cameras , so I hope that it is appropriate here .
Respect..
dee
Perusing the post Ipoh / Malaysia photos , at 1st , I was disturbed to find a similar 75% out of focus , not straight , blurred by camera shake .
The usual stuff . Many I knew about , some a result of the glacial AF of the X-Pro and my lack of learning ...
As ever , beating myself up as behind real people once again .
i HAVE to have a camera with me , even if it's a Kontax , previously SRT without film .
I have no idea why , but knowing it is there calms me . That a digital can actually be used without cost [ film ] is a bonus .
...... But then I found the experience of snaking through a market in the dark , blurred shots from the car of roadside shops / buildings / mopeds / and a bus .... hasty shots without framing to be dee's crete in a market restaurant ... all brought home the atmosphere of having to keep up , of being dependant upon others to take us anywhere ...some of the discomfort among the three sisters ...and the determination to compile my own story .
It brought back vividly , like a continuation of our visit in 1974 , familiar but recognising changes which ASD is great at .
No perfect photos would capture my own dee ficulties with remembering settings , the problems with hand / eye co ordination and sheer sense of separation from guy/girl which stifles joining in .
Being a distance away from home , helped create an acceptance of the glitches I cope with in snap shooting and everything else . OK Interior Design was relatively ' real ' but little else qualifies .
Why should snap shooting be otherwise ?
Not becoming anxious about failing is as if a burden has been lifted . I revisited other stories amongst my photos and found a similar sense of atmosphere and being there once again .
My parents and grandparents black and white photos from pre 1960 are not very sharp or in focus . Of course ,we now have the cameras to fix this , but they are no less atmospheric .
I guess it took a strange new camera and a country right around the world to open another chapter in being some form of 'ME'.
This post is about the magic of cameras , so I hope that it is appropriate here .
Respect..
dee