Looping open
As you know, I like to talk about pictures and picture-making. In class I probably get sidetracked, actually, and spend too much time on tangents. But the fact is that learning the tools and technology just isn't enough. Pictures matter to us as a culture and as individuals. And learning how to talk about pictures, how to share our ideas and intentions, is crucial to becoming more complete photographers and artists. This week I asked you to mark the moment that something we've done in class makes a difference in the way you make pictures. It's an essential part of the learning process because it begins to close the feedback loop. For example, in class we talk about something—exposure, saturation, cropping, whatever—and tomorrow you bring that idea into your body by adjusting your f-stop or shifting your frame. Recognizing that you've done so solidifies the learning and integrates idea with practice, or, closes the loop, so to speak. Late in the evening on Thursday, as I