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[dropcap style=”font-size: 60px; color: #93454a;”] I [/dropcap] keep getting asked this – just how do I go making the photographs that I do, while so many others don’t? They might as well ask “Photography – what is it really?”
The answer is simple – it’s not about the gear. Never has been, never will be. What it is is about Vision. What it is about looking at the world around you through the eyes of a child, ever delighting in discoveries. What it is about is seeing the world through the eyes of a sage, with the wisdom to realize that everything is connected. And it’s a lot more, but it’d help if we first stated what photography is not!
Photography – what is it really? It isn’t about tripping the shutter, because that just requires an index finger (or, a thumb, if it’s a cellphone camera you’re shooting on). If it were, monkeys could do that. And I’m not a monkey, and I presume you aren’t either.
What is Photography? Photography isn’t the camera either, despite what the camera manufacturers would want you to (and often succeed in making you) believe. A DSLR does not a photograph make. Nor do megapixels. Heck, I make better photographs with my humble MotoG cellphone camera than the majority of DSLR owners, so it can’t be about the camera either.
Photography – what is it really? It isn’t about technique either, given that the net is awash with articles relating to technique, and schools claiming to teach photography are a dime-a-dozen. And at best, they churn out people who may be able to make a technically correct photograph. A photograph that nevertheless lacks any real feeling, meaning and originality.
What is Photography? Is it about Composition? Well, yes. But don’t get all excited yet, because the number of articles dealing with that subject on the net run into a couple of hundreds of thousands. And the number of schools that claim to teach that are in no small number too. But let’s face it, the unfortunate fact is that at best they teach you methods and techniques again. Stuff that enslaves you. Stuff that at best makes you mimic the compositions of others, not compose for yourself.
The problem lies with the fact that very, very few can encapsulate what Composition is all about in a single sentence. And if they can’t, you can’t really blame them for failing to clarify what the game is really all about to others, can you?
Photography – what is it really? Watch the video below, that may help.
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Plain and simple: Photography is nothing but The Art of Seeing
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