Been thinking for a while now that - and as an indicatior - my gallery entries are getting fewer and fewer and I'm getting less and less satisfaction from my Poser work.

First, let me state it's not a fault of Poser, nor its limitations.  It's something in me.  Here's the what and why.

Technical shortcomings aside, I believe my earlier images were far better than most of the stuff I've uploaded for a couple of years.  The reasons for this are:

I lost sight of why I create images in the first place
I got seduced by production values
I concentrated too much on technique at the expense of content.

I am very much of the opinion that my work - although not as technically proficient as I would ultimately like it to be - has suffered because I spent too much time tweaking things rather than getting on with the business of saying what I meant to say.

I used to - and still want to - make images as a form of self expression.
I am a firm believer in Dali's approach to Surrealism.  That is, not making weird pictures for the sake of being weird, but using imagery and symbols personal to me, in order to express my emotional and mental state.  Sometimes this may be in the form of a "realistic" image, rather than a floating whale with a violin up its arse, or whatever.

BTW, I'm using the term "realism" here in a different sense from the CGI perfectionists (whom I admire greatly), but to describe something which could be an everyday scene.

I like the potential of producing realistic unreality, in the same way as some of the best SF art.  Not robots and spaceships necessarily, rather a relatively straightforward scene but skewed in some way to make the viewer go "WTF?"

So, it seems to me I have to re-evaluate my reasons for posting images - other than the ones I'll use to promote my products - and go back to my "roots".  Chances are, I'll start postworking and comping much more than in the past.  I have, pretty much, gone as far as I can go learning Poser, other than maybe getting to grips with the newer versions when I can afford to upgrade.  I've learned a lot from Ajax, BagginsBill, Doc Geep and hundreds of others about the ins and outs of Poser.  I am no expert but I have the necessary skillset to do what I want it to do.  

I am not - and never have been - a Poser purist.  I simply resisted postwork because *I wanted to learn Poser.  *I think I have enough to get by with for now.  It's my artistic expression I need to work on and try to remember what it means to be truly creative.

Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.

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