Comments on: The secret is…. Seeing http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:51:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Erdovegi http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-1475 John Erdovegi Mon, 29 Nov 2010 04:07:29 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-1475 Yes Analyzing, Critiquing, and Judging other published works by the best talent, is a way to see. To see from both the buyers and creators viewpoints. I always used to say look to best magazine layouts for creating web pages. I was a PC Programmer / Analyst for many years now desperately wanting to spend my last career choice doing what I like, Photography and Video. I wrote an analysis software tool called "ENVISION". I always used to say if I can envision it I can create it. The same goes for creating a photographic scene. After breaking down the magazine photo how it was done the next step is to think how you could have made it better or differently. I always see so many ways to crop a photo. Try to perceive how it would've looked at different angles, lenses, lighting positions, and light intensities. Take one scene and see how many different ways you can shoot it. "I shut my eyes in order to see" - Paul Gauguin Before electricity there were talented artists, adapt their insights. Yes Analyzing, Critiquing, and Judging other published works by the best talent, is a way to see. To see from both the buyers and creators viewpoints. I always used to say look to best magazine layouts for creating web pages. I was a PC Programmer / Analyst for many years now desperately wanting to spend my last career choice doing what I like, Photography and Video.

I wrote an analysis software tool called “ENVISION”. I always used to say if I can envision it I can create it. The same goes for creating a photographic scene.

After breaking down the magazine photo how it was done the next step is to think how you could have made it better or differently. I always see so many ways to crop a photo. Try to perceive how it would’ve looked at different angles, lenses, lighting positions, and light intensities. Take one scene and see how many different ways you can shoot it.

“I shut my eyes in order to see” – Paul Gauguin
Before electricity there were talented artists, adapt their insights.

]]> By: admin http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-977 admin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:13:37 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-977 @leon I think a big part of it is being self-aware and always stepping outside your creative realm to look at it from a buyer's perspective. Then evaluating your work against other published work that you see every day in magazines, which in fact is a good way to learning to see. Go through magazines and tear out the images that you are attracted to then break down the elements within the image. Lighting, styling, props, model, model direction etc. It takes time, so you can't let self doubt creep in. You need to keep shooting till you close that creative gap between what you see and what you produce. Don't get too wrapped up and attached to your work, because that's where self doubt sinks in. Always look at it from an outside perspective and how you can make it better the next time. Eventually once you've put in enough time and hard work things will come together and people will start hiring you for what you do. @leon I think a big part of it is being self-aware and always stepping outside your creative realm to look at it from a buyer’s perspective. Then evaluating your work against other published work that you see every day in magazines, which in fact is a good way to learning to see. Go through magazines and tear out the images that you are attracted to then break down the elements within the image. Lighting, styling, props, model, model direction etc. It takes time, so you can’t let self doubt creep in. You need to keep shooting till you close that creative gap between what you see and what you produce. Don’t get too wrapped up and attached to your work, because that’s where self doubt sinks in. Always look at it from an outside perspective and how you can make it better the next time. Eventually once you’ve put in enough time and hard work things will come together and people will start hiring you for what you do.

]]> By: Leonard Llewellyn Godwin http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-975 Leonard Llewellyn Godwin Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:17:13 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-975 I like what you have to say here, Nick, and looking at your work I can see you practice what you preach. But how does one get past the self-doubt that seems to go with branching out and trusting your own vision? Seems like they go hand-in-hand for me: the more I follow what I think is my own vision, the one least influenced by all the outer visual noise we see all day, the more self-doubt I experience. Assuming you have had this problem in your development as a artist, how did/do you get past it? I like what you have to say here, Nick, and looking at your work I can see you practice what you preach. But how does one get past the self-doubt that seems to go with branching out and trusting your own vision? Seems like they go hand-in-hand for me: the more I follow what I think is my own vision, the one least influenced by all the outer visual noise we see all day, the more self-doubt I experience. Assuming you have had this problem in your development as a artist, how did/do you get past it?

]]> By: Hannah Taylor http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-919 Hannah Taylor Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:34:11 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-919 Thank you for your advice Thank you for your advice

]]> By: jessi726@hotmail.com http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-55 jessi726@hotmail.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:48:40 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-55 great post! love your work:) great post! love your work:)

]]> By: Brandon http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-54 Brandon Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:00:58 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-54 Thank you for all of the work you put into this blog. It is one of the top blogs on photography, hands down. PS - I love your photographs!!! Thank you for all of the work you put into this blog. It is one of the top blogs on photography, hands down.
PS – I love your photographs!!!

]]> By: therese http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-53 therese Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:26:19 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-53 Thank you. Always love your posts. Thank you. Always love your posts.

]]> By: Candice http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-52 Candice Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:01:55 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-52 good stuff. good stuff.

]]> By: Jamie Wade http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-51 Jamie Wade Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:34:18 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-51 Thank you! Thank you!

]]> By: Michael http://nickonken.com/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html/comment-page-1#comment-50 Michael Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:32:46 +0000 http://205.186.128.244/blog/2009/11/the-secret-is-seeing.html#comment-50 Nice work Nick. I always appreciate your perspective. Nice work Nick. I always appreciate your perspective.

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