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mike yeats Contact
- Country
- Royaume-Uni
- Intro
- All I would like to say with regard to my pictures is that other than a little cropping and sharpening I am not a believer in much use of photo editing programs. I would like viewers to accept that sometimes the exposure or whatever is not quite perfect, what is important is the subject. The subject is number one. It never was true but I like the idea that the camera never lies, sadly these days you can't tell.
We have to be careful that we don't make a photo into what we want it to be rather than what it was.
The most important thing photography has taught me is that we should not just look but that we should also see.
I get very frustrated about some of the restrictions on taking photos and the suspicion that is directed at photographers taking pictures.
Without pictures we would be very ignorant of what is going on in the world.
Favorite photographers; Eugene Atget, Brassai, Horst,Larry Burrows, O Winston Link and I have just discovered the German photographer who photographed England, John Gay, and a thousand others.
With respect to TE, I do not go for daily targets, if I don't care for the days photos or they are not my style, no points, If I like a photo then they get points.
I also like to make an effort to grade notes, sometimes the notes are worthy of being tagged useful but the photo not.
I have found the points system corrosive, I did turn mine off but then realised that I could not award points to others so I turned them back on.
I have recently dusted off an old Mamiya 220 and I am going to start using film again, we will see how it goes.
Mike - Member Since
- 2008-11-18
- Equipment
- Canon Ixus 750, D80 NIKON, Panasonic LUMIX LX3, Pentax 1000
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| Cuba | 8 | view photos | view map |
| Egypte | 2 | view photos | view map |
| Népal | 1 | view photos | view map |
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| Tunisie | 4 | view photos | view map |
| Ouganda | 25 | view photos | view map |
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