Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Photography
The curious nature of photography and the magic it brings. I have been taking pictures for years some good pictures some terrible pictures, but pictures are pictures they capture a moment in time you will never get back. From my travels around the world I have taken pictures of friends, animals, and landscape trying to share my experience in the world. I wonder why sometimes I take these pictures I look back at a few pictures I took in Taiwan and its only pictures of rocks and I wonder to myself why I took these pictures. The longer I stare at the pictures I started to remember the surroundings I was at it was the beach I was with my friends we played with those rocks stacking them as high as we could I lost by the way which made me laugh a little and wonder what my friends in Taiwan were doing. Pictures bring back memories of the past sometimes good memories sometime bad memories, but they are all precious memories. Sometimes I take pictures just to find good pictures to share a few pictures I took recently were pictures of my koi pond. It started out as something to kill time, but as I kept taking pictures the koi never did what I image them to do so I kept taking more and more pictures before I knew it I take taken over 100 pictures of my pond. Why does pushing this one little button on a camera capturing time seem so fun at times I wonder and why does it bring back memories when I look back on these pictures. I’ve always wanted to take great pictures that when you look at it you just lose yourself to those pictures. I’ve seen pictures like that before in a lot of different places be it landscape or people they just bring out feelings when you see them. I want to take those pictures, but every time I’ve tried I never seem to just get it right. Something seems to always be missing in my pictures that those other pictures have. I wonder when the photographer took those pictures did he think to himself that he had one of the greats in his hands or did some else came along and told him that. I’ll always take pictures in hopes that I can find a great one that will inspire feelings in people.
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I know exactly where you are coming from on different levels in this post. I, too, would love to be able to take evoking pictures. I have, after years of practice, captured not a moment but a mood which seems to transcend the boundaries between space and time, but they are few and far between. I am also, like you, struck with the paradox found between the method, reason for, and experience with a picture. As you point out, we take pictures to capture something, but even when we are taking it we know that there is no way to capture a moment in time. We can never experience a moment again, and yet that does not keep us from trying.
ReplyDeleteAshley mentioned to me that her sister keeps a blog about her photography. I wonder if you might ask her about it.
I personally love photography. I was the high school photographer for my school, I interned with a photographer and I have taken several classes and own a small business with it. The last statement that you said about if the photographer knows he has a good picture is a very good question. From studying photography, I think that when the photographer takes the picture and then looks back on it, he is looking at the elements that make it a good picture. Does it have good contrast, brightness, is it cliche, is the focal point off the center. I think that a photographers know they have good photos; however that doesn't make them sellable. I think they need critiques to tell them that.
ReplyDeleteI like to look at photos and try to imagine the reason that the photographer took the picture in the first place. Especially in old photos. I often enjoy the back story and the often strange circumstances.
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