I'm not an artist.
Added 2017-02-13 03:24:20 +0000 UTCI think we're all complicated brains on ridiculous bodies, creatures of multiplicity and contradiction and uncertainty. At best.
When I see what some other photographers are doing, with their costumes and their sets and their locations and magic processing skills I can't help but think I am a completely different sort of photographer.
I tell people that I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a photographic technician. I know the details, the facts, the specific sequence of events and gear that will lead to a result that isn't awful.
I don't pre-plan a shoot and have a clear idea of what I want from it. I have instincts and ideas and half-known hunches and I just keep hoping that if I pull enough ideas together when it's shootin' time something great will come out the other end.
So, on some level, I must be some sort of functioning artist, but how much of an artist, how much a technician... I must leave that question to the philosophers.
What was my point... Oh yeah. I begrudgingly accept that I am some sort of artist, but I'm clearly not the same sort, and I wonder what that means, or if it means anything at all.
