Quoting Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > >>but when you've finished shooting you have to look at the picture > >>dispassionately, and not let the way you felt at the time cloud your > >>judgement about its value. Other viewers won't have experienced the > >>thing as you did, so they won't be bringing that to their reading of > >>the photograph - all they see is the finished goods. They don't care > >>how you felt while you were taking them, or how difficult it was for > >>you to get them. > > > Agreed. This applies to all art, really. > > It was Coleridge who first articulated this philosophy, wasn't it? > > Good question - I don't know. I learned it by listening to good > critics and evaluators at workshops, and have tried to apply it to my > own stuff ever since. It seems to help.
"Emotion recollected in tranquility" from the preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth & Coleridge? Oh wow, all the way back to my A-Levels ... ERNR
