“…and in reading many of your posts, it would seem techniques like exposing to the right, resolutions charts, concerns over noise and chromatic aberrations, even composition don’t even enter your photographic process. It didn’t take me long to see you’re concerned with only one thing, passion, anything else?” The emailer in my opinion had done a great job distilling all my thousands of pages on the website down to the one thing I think is the most important aspect in photography, whatever the genre … passion. I firmly feel and have felt for more than thirty years, what the world needs are not more technically correct photographs but one filled with passion. Is it just that easy?
Photography must remain fun or we’ll leave it in the closet. This means that if it’s the technical side of photography that brings you happiness, then that’s what you need to focus on. And if you want just passion to rule your photography, there are some very important technical aspects of photography you have to master so you can forget them in your pursuit of your passion. But if you want to last for the long run, improving your photography for decades (because there is no ending point) and share photographs that can change our world, it’s my sincere belief that this can only be accomplished with an overwhelming passion for the memories photography captures and communicates! Passion is what pushes your photography forward through all the rough times, makes it excel in the good times and brings to our lives a fun that is hard to find in any other adventure. So in answer to the emailers question, I think it’s just takes passion and nothing else.