While Professionalism might begin where money comes into the play,
Art might begin where money does not determine the creative process.
This does neither mean that money will create professionalism,
nor does it mean that the absence of money will automatically create art.
1503
In Dreams
2017
1504
Pros at Work
2017
In most cases, both, in professional work and when creating art, tools are overrated.
Tools - and the craft to apply them properly - are just a fundament.
And yes, sometimes a steadicam is a more appropriate tool than a gimbal. It's driven by inertia, it makes gravity perceptible.
Gimbals work by electronic correction pulses, most of the time they do not create the feeling of grounding.
Thank you, Garret Brown!
1505
A Walk in the Park
2017
1506
Moving quickliy
2017
1507
Selfie Time
2017
Craft is the result of theoretical knowledge and practical experience, constant learning. Craft emerges from numerous repetitions.
The more different principles you know - how to approach a specific question - the more versatile the creative kit of your mind.
You only get there by investing a lot of time, thirst for knowledge, openness and the will to learn every day.
1508
The Sound of the city
2017
Besides continuos repetitions, building a solid craft takes a lot of patience.
This includes many setbacks.
1509
Snack bar wisdom
2017
1510
Doubtful
2017
The more versatile the toolkit of your mind, the more creative and the more surprising the outcome.
What we describe as creativity is identifying patterns of events, images, shapes, definitions, conceptions and so on... Then finding the intersections and re-combining.
Strongly creative people combine this ability with a comprehensive toolkit.
Ingenuity is a myth of man.
In the end it comes down to pattern recognition and pattern application.
1511
Good Basics
2017
Most stable flow processes - in storytelling, in working, in creating and in life in general follow the golden number.
The "golden number" is a philosophical-mathematical description of a constant geometric natural flow pattern based on thermodynamics.
Our minds follow the very same geometry.
1512
Fooling with the DP
2017
1513
Transportation Captain
2017
1514
Moving on
2017
1515
Chasing Waterfalls
2017
Only dedication can possibly create excellence.
If you are familiar with the Pareto principle you know that you always have to go the extra-mile to achieve something
that has the potential to stand out from the rest.
Take all your skills, your craft, your dedication and go to places you have never been before.
1516
No sleep tonight
2017
1517
The toughest Crew
2017
There is no guarantee that your work is considered to be well-made or even a piece of art.
But both, professionalism and creation (of art) have some intersections...
If dedication means giving in to something - your story, your subject, your object - for a timespan long enough to create or to capture something truthful, than you might get close.
Dedication in filmmaking and in photography means understanding and, of course, creating and / or capturing the essence of a moment.
A very wise teacher at film school once told us:
Listen to the material.
Once you found it, let go and listen to the material.
The material is always wiser than you are.
1518
Climate change
2017
1519
Laura and the Team
2017
1520
Into the ice
2017
1521
Entropy
2017
1522
Back To Civilization
2017
1523
Asleep, finally.
2017
Feeling exhausted and satisfied the same time is a good indicator that you might have gotten away with something interesting.
1524
Charging the batteries
2017
Photography helps me to understand the essence of the moment, to sharpen my senses and to evolve my visual and my geometrical understanding.
1525
Stormy Dusk
2017
You might be a pro but not an artist. You might be an artist but not a pro.
There are artists who are pros. There are pros who are artists.
Whether or not you're an artist is determined by people who pay for your work, by theaters, museums, and by publishers and art galleries displaying your work.
As soon as people pay for your work, your work quickly becomes determined by money.