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>>102305 Knowing pskaught's preferences, I imagine he's comparing it to a digital Hasselblad.
But on that note, pskaught, if you're so heavily set on having the best quality, why not go for a view camera? Use the 5D like a Polaroid back, and just expose the final one on the sheet film?
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Osmosis isn't "oh hey gaiz this is how I do this."
You can't teach talent, or at least the type that distinguishes a pskaught from others.
The way I see it, there's three types of talent:
1. Technical ability to make it not shit. Some arts (e.g. painting) require some innate ability; others, like writing (grammar) and photography (focus, exposure, etc.) can be learned by anyone.
2. A strong aesthetic sense. This is innate, but many people have it. Stock photographers even have it, for fuck's sake. A sense for what looks good and what doesn't. Great critics of an art usually have this to the exclusion of the other types... Harold Bloom, for instance, is a titan of literary criticism, but the one novel he wrote himself was an absolute catastrophe, by his own admission.
3. Genuine talent. A perceptiveness into things, a genuine sympathy and understanding for the human condition, a sharp but not cruel sense of irony, and an ability to use the first two to draw these feelings into form.
The first can be taught and developed, the second can be cultivated, the third comes from some place even the Shakespeares and Rembrandts can only speak on indirectly.
Some more talk on /p/ about aesthetics and theories of them would be nice, but no matter how much you immersed yourself in that, lacking the third, you'd be at best a Harold Bloom and not an inch closer to being a Shakespeare.
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