Originally posted by Wasp Seen on Petapixel.
What a profound notion. It makes one think, too.
My experience as a photography teacher is that this is true and we all tend to either do one well or the other. But that's where education and training (formal or informal) helps.
In my intro photo courses, it's mostly technical because that IMO is easier to teach and also what the students want to know; how-to. The paradox, however, is that although the technical has the most benefit for those who are more interested in the aesthetic and feeling of the moment or light or composition, they (naturally) hate it and it's the technophiles that embrace it. Easier to improve what we're already good at.
This sort of then backfires in the advanced photo course where I teach more of the art and less of the craft of photography, and the technical ones really struggle to see light and color and compositional elements.
Although the goal is to be good at both function and form, I'd say I might have a 30% success rate with teenaged students who still have soft spongy gray matter that can absorb new ideas for both the head and the heart. I should also add, that some blossom early and others blossom late.