Allen Herbert Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Hello, i'm a Magnum photographer and i use a PS...<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Gabriel M. A. , jun 08, 2005; 05:24 p.m. The diagnosis is...? Lamp post mate rate stuff....i'm sure you understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 All a bit of fun folks, no need for anyone to get their knickers in a twist. So sensitive on the The Leica site of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith turrill Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Absolutely fascinating question and I would have to say yes at least in an annectdotal sense. However, having shared a college dormatory with many photography and art students in the late 1970's; one must also consider chronic substance abuse and age of exposure. There may be some studies concerning substance abuse and OCD in later life. In the absence of OCD, domanant hemisphere brain injuries may change the expression of visual and creative skills but I would not recommend experimenting at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 domanant hemisphere brain injuries may change the expression of visual and creative skills See, i told you,Trevor. Not that you would listen to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 telling the lemmings they believe anything with some hype Apart from using their own eyes....somene has to tell them. Cool photo or what! Come on down H eat your heart out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank granovski Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 I took up photography long before the brain damage, due to heavy cell phone use, and I only began posting when I became bored due to laziness. However, with the new drugs on the market, I feel fine, thank you, except for the blindness; and that doesn't help my photography skills. It's always a Catch 22 situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappoldt Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Actually, studies have shown that there is a high percentage of poets that are depressed, showing a correlation there. Ergo, wouldn't surprise me if there were evidence out there that could be cross-referenced to illustrate that most artists have some sort of nut loose. Of course I'm certifiably insane, so don't listen to me;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholasprice Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Obsessive and Compulsive personality traits in general, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in particular are usually a significant hinderance to creativity. Disorders resulting in some degree of disinhibition, or increased productivity (such as Manic or Hypomanic states) can be beneficial to an artist,( at least when the degree of arrousal is minimal), however these are gross generalisations, and it all comes down to the result of many interacting enviromental and genetic factors. Regards, Nick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeos_386sx Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 was howard hughes a leica user? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted June 8, 2005 Author Share Posted June 8, 2005 I think a little OCD helps with composition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith turrill Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 The statistical proof of OCD in photagraphy will when the Google Adsense robots start putting advertistments for Prozac, etc., on photography websites like this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kathywilson Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 nah, not OCD - definitely anal-retentiveness :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank granovski Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 I was referring to Viagra, hence blindness. ;*) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Sigmund Freud said that the difference between creativity and madness is that the creative person dips into the subconscious and returns with something useful in the real world. The psychotic dips into the unconscious, gets lost, and returns with nothing useful. There was a conference--I think of the American Psychotherapy Association--in Santa Fe, two or three years ago, on creativity and madness. I didn't attend, but I wonder if there's anything on the web about what was said. Creativity involves thinking outside the box. Thus the products of creativity may appear bizzare or nuts to those more conventional in their thinking. It can be difficult to tell the difference between this and the ones who really are nuts. If someone in 1955 had claimed that a computer the size of today's laptop could be more powerful than a Remington Rand Univac, which took up several large rooms, they would have been branded a crackpot. Everyone "knew" that was ridiculous. An auto focus, auto-exposure camera? Same idea. How about CT scans, MRI's ultrasound? People are crazy when they don't think like you and I. And I'm not so sure about you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabrielma Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 <i>"Lamp post mate rate stuff....i'm sure you understand."</i><BR><BR> Allen: I sure don't. Please enlighten me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabrielma Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 <i>The psychotic dips into the unconscious, gets lost, and returns with nothing useful.</i><BR><BR> So my computer is psychotic; I'm beginning to understand it all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert goldstein Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Serious photographers have a very strong tendency towards obsessiveness, but that it not the same as OCD. Now pardon me while I remove the dust from my viewfinder for the tenth time today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Pete wrote: <<< Any hobby/interest/passion requires a level of obsession and compulsion as entry fee to be paid. >>> I think that's right, and would modify only slightly to say that a hobby or interest, once it rises to the level where one describes it as a passion, absolutely requires it. May I quote you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl photography Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Ya gotta be obsessive. The Devil is in the details.... Brandon's Dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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