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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
Red - I can only speak for myself here but I don't mind helping someone out with some very generic type photography questions. However, some questions about a certain technique that I may have used to get this look or that look...I may not be as comfortable discussing. I have techniques that I've developed and fine tuned over the last few years that I'm not willing to discuss with other shooters. Who wants to spend years fine tuning techniques and learning new skills just to hand it all over to the first guy who asks..."how did you do that"? I know that we are all out there trying to make a living but the bottom line is that you and the person that your asking advice from might be competing for the same dollar. You really shouldn't take it so personal  |
Designers are stuck with the same thing. There are tricks and techniques.
I have always given them up freely, and there are alot of coveted design tricks by many designers.
In fact Tylo recently put up some really good information and a long held secret amoung "Good" designers that demonstrates how to get hair to look very natural in a photo crop in design.
Personally I have never had a reservation about providing information to other's. I know for a fact there is somthing no other designer can do and that is capture the spirit in how I do things. Techniques and tricks are really minutia in the grand scheme things and there is somthing inherent in every person that is creative. It is ZEN in it's best sense, the spirit of "just doing can not be immitated" no matter how hard others may try.
So in that fiath I discuss what and how I do things rather openly and give my peer's the best of luck in helping them with things they may want to know.
Experience yield's the artists value and again that can not ever be immitated..