Scott Kelby

I watched a webcast with Scott Kelby today.

He was promoting his new book, LIGHT IT, SHOOT IT, RETOUCH IT.

I like Kelby and have learned a lot from his books.  He is a very talented retoucher, but as I was watching the event, I kept thinking, "Is he what is wrong with Photography?"

Most of the event was talking about technique... how to do this, how setting your lights like this will look this way, how to make this change in photoshop.

Very little was on interacting with the model, about the actual capturing of a compleing image.

I remember a debate on a fourm many years ago ( Garage Glamour?) about people and how they are becoming great at polishing turds.

Are spending too much time learning how to polish turds, and not enough time on creating great images to start with?