by nirlep » Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:29 pm
Commenting as learning
many people think that commenting is an activity totally severed from that of making images. It is not so. Every time we make a comment we subconsciously visit and critique our own creative process. Initially we will comment about colour, contrast, composition etc. And then we reach a point where we don't know what to point out, what to say, and that's almost our creative threshold. Slowly by reading comments we imbibe, as also by seeing others pictures. Sometimes the picture has something of which we come to know through others comments. And this happens with me very often. Very often a picture opens me up to a different dimension through comments of other photographers.
Writing on others pictures is an act of editing our own thoughts about how to approach a visual; be it reading or creating one. The process is beautiful as one discovers new aspects like mood, color temperatures and their emotional appeal, cultural contexts of images, how images link us to dreams, myths, history, how they evoke and ignite. The more one comments the more one interacts the more he or she would grow. This is true in majority of cases.
So guys comment comment and comment, for as much as we our self wait for one we must remember that the other too does. The picture is not completed after clicking and posting. It gets completed when the photographer knows it has or it hasn't made an impact that it was intended to. Let's complete each others pictures by engaging. Engaging deeply, passionately, compassionately, objectively.
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