Chapter Three. The Artist and the Geek
I’m tempted to say that this is the chapter about the meeting of craft and vision, technique and artistry. But the whole book is about that—at no point does one get the spotlight to the exclusion of the other. It’s that very imbalance in photography that needs to be corrected, not encouraged.
Kairouan, Tunisia. To the end of my days I’ll wish a man in a red fez had poked his head out the bottom-right window.
Canon 5D, 28mm, 1/6400 @ f/2.8, ISO 400
The technique stuff here is critical. All the vision in the world fails for lack of means to express it. There’s technique-related material all the way through ...
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