do not delete your pictures ii
after a long period of silence, right time for another post. this time i want to return back to very popular theme which “i mentioned some time ago” – “don’t delete your pictures” became a “slogan” for me and i’m trying to preserve as much as I can, but from another point of view i slowed my clicks and achieved the golden mean – less snapped – less deleted. in additional to less clicks i find myself in love to imperfection. something that we forget about with the rapid evolution of technology, we got an ability to create crystal-clear images plus fast and spacious storages to save countless number of the crystal-clear images. sounds like closed circle.
when i started my way in photography – it was middle digital photography age (years 2007-2008) i madly wanted to get the bluest and purest sky, i tried to avoid any hint at presence of shadows in my images. unemotional faces, stilled posture, immaculate everything. it was strange time of the empty “perfection”. it took some time to understand what is important in photography for me, not to be scared because of high grain, low or hight contrasts, bleary objects, unfocused main subject, superfluous items inside the frame, unexpected emotions and other surprises. i don’t delete my UNFORTUNATE images anymore – i’m just waiting for the moment when my perception will forget about what i wanted to get and will accept what i finally get.
enjoy the moments…
thank you ! hope to see you again…
. . ★ . . :: “i find myself in love to imperfection” :: . . ★ . . good advice Vic ☀️ #photography @victorbezrukov
Happy-haopy Sharon !
Great photographs. I’m much too shy to do people pictures. Like yourself, I also think more carefully these days before taking photographs and I come home with far fewer pictures than I used to. Even with a digital camera. Then I delete mistakes or photos that are too boring even for me. And, possibly most importantly, I only show those photos that I still like several weeks after making them.
These photos are all very good! Why would you delete them anyway? 🙂
thank you Dev ! as i said part of them are unfortunate or not what i wanted to get as result. in our digital photography world people just take a few another shots and delete all blurred, not focused and mistaken. once i was doing well the same 🙂
great set from your archive. i very much appreciate your reflexions on the struggle with perfection/imperfection that not only leads your photography but your nature as well (and mine, too). i also very well remember that i always seeked for sharpness and color clarity in the first place when i started photography (with a slr first, dslr three years later) which i today find most uninspiring. i sometimes even decreased sharpness in lr of pictures taken by the bronica s2a. the lens is just “too good” 🙂 i find it amusing how i changed my view on photography over the last years not only concerning overall appearance but also on genres and subjects.
Your words is goid additional to my description for this post Trillian. Thank you very much and good day to you
Marvelous post Victor!! The images and your message are right on. Just like you, in the early days, I was always in search of perfection that doesn’t exist. When I decided to live in the real world, flaws and all, and decided to photograph that way, people were much more receptive to my work. Great post!!
Thank you Sam. I find some reflections here to our conversation from yesterday on your post 😉 and you’re so right – perfection is not exist – people and thinks are beautiful in their imperfection; -) happy that you loved the images.
What a wonderful post! You make so many important points. Indeed we tend to sometimes forget why we do this and for whom we are doing it. Well done.
Thank you very much !
interesting and nice 🙂
Thank you Joshi !
thanks for sharing Victor. I am going through the same stages in my photography. recently dug up some old photos that previously found them being not good enough. I am slowly getting past the need for crystal clear, over sharp images that technicaly might be good but soulless.
I see these stages as growing process steps. Really happy to read that many people feel the same
Wonderful series of photographs. Less is truly more and yes it is the little imperfections that bring a photograph to life.
Good said Nita ! Thank you for visiting!
you are so right, technical perfection does not make a photo great… it’s way more than that… great food for thought, thank you, Victor!!