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Ryan Muirhead Photography
my photo stream of consciousness
One day, after they stop making books, they’ll find my skeleton in a place like this, buried in a pile of Dostoevsky, Lewis, Tolkien and Kodak film negatives.
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Ryan Muirhead
"Oh I’m full of things that are considered blasphemy in today’s industry. I don’t like dslr’s. I don’t think digital is a good way for most people to learn photography. I don’t think there is any way to archive digital files, at least I’ve never found a single person who actually knows how or has any real plan for the future. I think a lot of photographers, after switching to digital, are not nearly as good as they were during their analog days. I think digital has killed the editing abilities of most photographers. I don’t think seeing an image right after you make it is a good thing. I don’t think having the ability to overshoot every scene actually helps make better images. I think digital has trivialized the idea of photography in the minds of everyday people.I think our industry is now almost entirely centered around technology as opposed to imagery. I’ve never seen an HDR image I like, and the fact I’m starting to see this technique creep into nearly every genre of photography makes me sick.
How is that for starters? I don’t get invited to many parties these days. At the core, digital is a great thing. What we do with it, how we use it…that is another matter."
How is that for starters? I don’t get invited to many parties these days. At the core, digital is a great thing. What we do with it, how we use it…that is another matter."
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"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case."
- Chuck Close (via hattiewatson)
Annie Montgomery by Brandon Witzel
The Beginning of a Photographer: Don't worry, your not missing anything.
christopherwilockiphotography:
There was a time that I (hope) we all experienced in this so called journey to become a photographer. I call it the internet journey.
Somehow, all of us have been brainwashed into thinking that without a following, without fans we are not really photographers. I will admit, that there was a…
mikelarremore asked: Your work is awesome. That is all.
Thank you so much sir. I have enjoyed shooting in your old studio. I hope we get to meet someday soon.