The horror, the humanity of it all.

The only thing in camera-dom that can exceed bag nirvana is pressing the shutter, taking a quick chimp and seeing at all is perfect and knowing that you took the perfect photo.

gjl711 wrote in post #3410916
The only thing in camera-dom that can exceed bag nirvana is pressing the shutter, taking a quick chimp and seeing at all is perfect and knowing that you took the perfect photo.

Ha, I wish! I've learnt not to trust my LCD screen. I look down, think I've got a great photo only to load it and be heart broken. I can only deal with so many heart breaks in one life so I don't look at the lcd for any reason to check my histogram and maybe to check the composition.

And I'm still trying for that elusive perfect photo, one day

Wow! I just happened upon this thread. Glad everything was OK.

I've had similar experiences, though now with a camera, and not with a dog. My two little girls (see avatar) just turned three, and they're the reason that I've started getting gray hair.

I love them dearly. We just have to remember to keep stuff out of their (ever growing) reach.

-Pleiades- wrote in post #3412827
Ha, I wish! I've learnt not to trust my LCD screen. I look down, think I've got a great photo only to load it and be heart broken. I can only deal with so many heart breaks in one life so I don't look at the lcd for any reason to check my histogram and maybe to check the composition.

And I'm still trying for that elusive perfect photo, one day

Yup, I did say that would be nirvana but I to am striving to reach it having never experienced photo-nirvana myself. But there is yet time and I’m sure one day it will come. Until then, I keep striving.

You see, I reckon photo-nirvana is a myth. Something we like to believe in to keep striving for the best. I know if I took what other might see as the perfect photo I would still be able to pick things wrong with it or think that there is a better way I could have done it or how external factors could have been better. But then again I'm picky and too hard on myself, so I feel I shall never reach the photo-nirvana state.

But, I still like to believe there is such things like photo-nirvana, santa and the tooth fairy, it helps me sleep well at night.

I know photo-nirvana exists for I have seen it many times. I see it here and wonder to myself, how the heck did they get something so perfect. Why If I only lived somewhere where perfection exists, and I had a MkIII with all the L glass anyone could ever dream of, I too could reach it. But then there is that one intangible, talent. You see it from time to time. The perfect photo and then see it was taken by a cheap P/S by some kid who probably doesn’t know what they have. So I reside in knowing that at best I will be a good technical photographer and maybe one day things will come together.

If only you could purchase talent. I'd mortage my house.

I think photo-nirvana is something only someone else can acheive and one can never acheive it themself.

I have seen many, many photos on here and else where that I see as perfect or close to it. But we don't know all the contributing factors to the photo that only the photog knows about.

For example it could be a sunset photo and it's amazing. But maybe the photog was a few minutes late at capturing it and he knows it. He knows that his photo could have been better, but the people viewing it don't know that. They only see what it presented to them. And little do thy know that that photo really isn't perfection, it's just what they're lead to believe.

Maybe photography is all about the art of deception? Although trying to trick yourself into believing your own photo is perfect would be much like trying to tickle yourself, rather futile.

Am I making sense, or just waffling?

Hmmm... Kind of makes sense.

lol, it's late and I'm sleep deprived. If you need any translation let me know.

-Pleiades- wrote in post #3414982
If only you could purchase talent. I'd mortage my house.

If people could purchase talent, there'd be anarchy in the streets. And those rich $90 million a year sports b*stards would be up in arms because "new talent" lowered the pay levels for everyone. The socio-economic strata would we skewed to almost communist levels and Ralph Nader would finally be president.

It's a true sign of an artist to never be 100% completly "done" with your work. Whether that's PPing a photo, brushing on more paint or putting down your pen and backing away from the table. Realize though, that perfection isn't the point in art. It's creating tangibly outside of yourself the vision you're also carrying inside of you that's the perfection of art. It's for your enjoyment, not for you to slave under. The nirvana of photography should be clicking the shutter. The rest is all butter.