Technique is the approach used to create the image. Printing, lighting, posing, capture, presentation media, and more are part of the technique applied to an image.
2 more of this nonsense to go.
I am not sure if technique is an approach. I am starting to think that it is the choice of words that I have problems with. Just not thoughtful enough, the selection is. After all, it may not well be all that surprising, as these people are photographers, meaning that they cannot either 1) draw or 2) describe well with words 3) or both. Anyhow, I suppose you can call it an approach. But to me, an approach to something other than literal final destination is that this is more or less a general attitude sort of things. To me technique is a set of skills that have been established by those who have been designated as authority (yes and often times self-appointed, I know) in the genre of interest. They are lucky bastards who get to set the rules.
Techniques do involve small details and things tangible as well as intangible, that can and cannot be taught. Whatever the hell it is, yes it can be evaluated objectively because often times there are "guidelines" that streamlines the process. But, then again (my favorite saying), these so-called guidelines are very sketchy. If everybody followed a guideline, then would all pictures look the same?
Again, I am not sure if it is important. Especially in photography, accidents are just waiting to happen. All you have to do sometimes is just to push that button. Any dumb ass can accidentally take a picture that is technically perfect these days with AF and SR and APS-C and FF and SDM and all that.
Maybe that is why this is at the end of the list . . . . .
Here, I have a picture that strive for technical excellence and failed miserably.
Pentax K-7
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm/f1.4
1/250 @ f/2.2
-0.7 ev
ISO 400
Raw
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