My goal in this blog is to educate about photography. I’ve come to realize that learning photography is not just technical. Matter of fact, the technical side can be rather easily mastered in short amount of time.
The artistic aspect of photography such as composition, seeing light, and the ability to capture a certain mood of the scene is the part that makes photography a unique art on its own. To me, without the artistry, photography is just a scientific craft. It is only when the emotion of the photographer is present in the image, the photograph is given “life”.
The artistic aspect of photography such as composition, seeing light, and the ability to capture a certain mood of the scene is the part that makes photography a unique art on its own. To me, without the artistry, photography is just a scientific craft. It is only when the emotion of the photographer is present in the image, the photograph is given “life”.
I dedicate this blog to trying to help photographers understand how to inject the human emotions and our values into the photograph using various tools that is available to us as photographers.
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| Fuji x-100 Click to see it bigger |
Before the shutter is pressed, either instinctively or consciously, we must answer series of questions. These questions will always lead to serve the one main goal: How can you duplicate what you saw and felt onto a two dimensional rectangular frame?
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| Canon 5D MKII with 50mm 1.2L Lens Click to see it bigger |
When I was starting out, it used to always frustrate me when I would see something beautiful in front of me where I would take the photos, just to find out after processing (back in film days...) I would be disappointed that it wasn't what I really saw when I was there on location.
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| Gaorsi 617 medium format film camera. with 90mm f6.3 Schider lens Click to see it bigger |
Where did I go wrong? Was it because my camera was crap? Or I used the wrong film? The real answer was it was due to my lack of understanding what photography was about. I had good knowledge of all the technical things like aperture, shutter speed, exposure... But I didn't know how to merge this technical knowledge to go after what touched me as a person.
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| Fuji x-100 Click to see it bigger |
In this blog, I will use specific photo outings to illustrate the technique and equipment used to achieve the desired effect. Subscribe to my blog and share the wealth to your friends who want to get more out of photography. Also, ask me specific questions about photography in the comment below and I will try to answer them as best as I can.
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| Canon 5D MKII with 50mm 1.2L lens Click to see it bigger |
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