tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27557058.post3761331590320118762..comments2024-01-18T05:34:40.549-07:00Comments on Behind The Lens: Photography as Puzzle SolvingGeorge Barrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06745541057122821349noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27557058.post-60624494908553040762012-07-09T07:16:32.400-06:002012-07-09T07:16:32.400-06:00Funnily enough, I tend to think of the landscape &...Funnily enough, I tend to think of the landscape "chase" as more of a contrivance than a puzzle - at least at the macroscopic level of choosing what end of what day to go where because the OS map says it'll look good. To a large degree, it detracts from the element of luck - "yes I *can* do this", rather like shooting fish in a barrel.<br /><br />Then you arrive somewhere, the light's got potential... so the scene's sorted and it's up to you where to park the tripod based on minute adjustments to the contents of the viewfinder/LCD.<br /><br />And so it becomes a game of two halves, regardless of genre: the subject on one side of the lens and the box that frames what it sees on the other.Timhttp://www.shinyphoto.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27557058.post-79826134121072911662012-07-07T04:10:04.151-06:002012-07-07T04:10:04.151-06:00Great article. Yes. In fact I see a lot of puzzle ...Great article. Yes. In fact I see a lot of puzzle solving aspects when I try to go out or plan to take a certain shot... like HDR panoramas at night and the challenge of cleaning the noise later, or like the time when I decided and planned to take a low-level panorama in a narrow space like my bathroom which took hours of work (and guys kept asking me what the hell your point is from all this fuss?). Just lately, I've taken a panorama in another narrow place: my work's bathroom (and the images are posted in my latest blog post).<br /><br />Before coming here and reading this article, I was out in this dusty weather we have here and I took my camera and tripod... why? I don't know. I said to myself "you have to find something". Went out there, found something that I thought it's useful and now I'm working on it. Now the challenge is to force this ordinary abstract shot into something interesting a bit, either by composition or colors - or both if I was lucky enough.<br />Ironically though, despite all the challenges I could think of and try to do, I've never had the appetite nor thought of working with models and portrait photography. Just thinking about it makes me feel dull and as something that is just completely NOT interesting at all and I can't force myself to work with it. I think this is one feeling I can't challenge.<br /><br />By the way, since you work with ADHD patients; how would you recognize someone having ADHD (or Adult ADHD)? Must it be done with medical examination? Also, what's the difference between ADHD and Adult ADHD? ... you know for my lack of focus specially on reading or watching stuff for a long time, sometimes I do doubt myself being affected by a spectrum of such things, but I've never done a check on that!TJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08018919311091160354noreply@blogger.com