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I got dust on the sensor of my Canon 1Ds Mark III and couldn’t get it off. The vibration on startup and shutdown didn’t dislodge it. I tried cleaning it witn a sensor brush and that didn’t work. So I took it into the local Canon Express Service Center to have them do it. I was expecting to pay about 50 bucks for it but was delighted to find out they did it for free. That put a smile on my face. Another satisfied Canon customer.
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…all photographers of stature whom I admire seem to share this fundamental characteristic: a deep and long-lasting respect and love for the subject matter.
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We’re exploring art from the perspective of other artistic disciplines to shed light on what it means to be a photographer and an artist. (You can read The Photographer as Artist – Introduction.) We’re doing this because photographers often seem to be expected to meet a “reality standard” that has not been imposed on other artists since the classic period of Greece two thousand years ago – “Did you use a filter?” “Are these colors real?” “Did you manipulate this photograph?”
There are three areas to explore – what I call the Tripod of Artistry – the three legs upon which all arts and artists stand. This article looks at the first of the three – Expressive Spectrum.
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… photography is only a tool, a vehicle, for expressing or transmitting a passion in something else.
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As I read more and more about photography in particular and art in general, I come across quotations that resonate. This series of posts will be used to pass these along.
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