The
United States has so many places that when you are there it seems like
another place at another time Savannah Ga. is one of those places. Of
the many things that make Savannah special for me, two stand out, the
architecture and the people. Ok, three, the food!
Having great subjects when making images helps to make great photos. But as photographers we eventually come to realize, regardless of what's in the frame of the camera, there's a subject outside the frame, included in every photo, and that would be a photographer.
I believe the photographer puts the heart in the image. It's a difficult idea to explain, and more easily experienced. The photographer can only see what they can see, feel what they can feel, at the moment of capture.
I've spent a lot of time attempting to break down the blindness and develop my vision and the ability to capture feeling in the frame. It's a continuous process, like peeling an onion; you remove something just to understand there is something else to remove again and again. And each time you see things you couldn't see before.
This learning process of seeing has been my personal shrink. I have learned so much about what blinds me it would be embarrassing to list here. Dealing with the attitudes and emotions that block your vision as a photographer will improve your images.
If you want to improve the ability to recognize a great image or picture opportunity beyond what your ability is now, learn to see, better yet learn to understand what is keeping you from seeing and "Open The Blinds"
Having great subjects when making images helps to make great photos. But as photographers we eventually come to realize, regardless of what's in the frame of the camera, there's a subject outside the frame, included in every photo, and that would be a photographer.
I believe the photographer puts the heart in the image. It's a difficult idea to explain, and more easily experienced. The photographer can only see what they can see, feel what they can feel, at the moment of capture.
I've spent a lot of time attempting to break down the blindness and develop my vision and the ability to capture feeling in the frame. It's a continuous process, like peeling an onion; you remove something just to understand there is something else to remove again and again. And each time you see things you couldn't see before.
This learning process of seeing has been my personal shrink. I have learned so much about what blinds me it would be embarrassing to list here. Dealing with the attitudes and emotions that block your vision as a photographer will improve your images.
If you want to improve the ability to recognize a great image or picture opportunity beyond what your ability is now, learn to see, better yet learn to understand what is keeping you from seeing and "Open The Blinds"
David is a NC based photographer. View website here.
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