Recently, I have found the following words in the New York Times review of the book about Helen Levitt:
"a feeling that the camera is less an expertly operated tool than the seamless extension of a mind and body that are preternaturally alert to the world."
The above optimally defines my approach to (or, rather, aspirations about) photography in general.
The good old film, with color gamut, texture grain and noise giving it the charm. Forced to extinction by the mass production of digital nothing. Every shot hurts, makes you think about parameters. Never really mastered it, spent hundreds of rolls and relied on the eye for good composition. (These photos have been degraded in quality by the scanning process and digital post-processing - what they do with digital photos when they want them to look better than they actually are. Obviously, they are incomparable in quality with the paper prints.)
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A totally different approach. The technique is not important, since you can try as many times as you like (i.e. convenience ultimately leading to trash). It's in the moment, in what intrigues the eye. So no tripod, filters, advanced parameter settings, etc. Only inspiration (and thus, any camera will do).
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