Comments on: Ping

By: Toni Tiller

Toni Tiller — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:27:49 +0000

thats a pretty accurate summation of the personality at hand, so i am happy to hear i captured that. it was fun looking back at everything in a group, i rarely do that, and it was satisfying to see that from beginning to end i had an underlying approach to this that i wasn’t really aware of when i started, but am by now. it makes it easier when you know what you’re trying to get out of the activity, especially during those times when you have no idea why you are doing it.

By: Toni Tiller

Toni Tiller — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:23:58 +0000

some of the cheapest cameras in the world are the most fun, polaroid and lomo spring to mind, so i agree that so much is what you choose to do with the tool, as much as the tool itself. i remember the first camera i got the one that i took that last photos with, had 4 megapixels and i was super jazzed about that. haha, how quickly we can become spoiled. ha!

By: ssstephg

ssstephg — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:50:05 +0000

I like that that top portrait alot, Toni. It’s intense and playful at the same time. And it’s nice to see a bunch of your work all together.

I tend to think most artwork is as much a reflection of the artist as it is a mirror of it’s subject so yeah, that quote and Bennett take on it make perfect sense to me.

great post!

By: jasongrayfineartist

jasongrayfineartist — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:06:00 +0000

These are great, Toni, and I can totally identify with all of what you are saying in the commentary. I think that photography, especially portraiture, is about exchange. This (seeing your work together from different years/cameras) actually brings up another conversation that I had recently. Someone had stated that the idea that a camera does not limit a person’s potential as a photographer was a myth. I wrote them back saying, “Looking strictly at the vernacular of any given set of cameras shows differences between them. However, if we use the basis of vernacular to define what a picture is capable of, then we omit the photographer. For instance, given the RIGHT set of circumstances, any automatic camera can produce the same level of “success” (in terms of sharpness, IQ, exposure, etc.) as any camera operator, professional or otherwise, of that same camera. Thus, the difference between a successful photograph and art are two separate things. Art requires a photographer to bring direction and touch to the technology, and I don’t believe that technology places any advantage or limitation upon that.”