This article I happened upon this morning is good – reminds me to keep my eyes open, and that great photography is up to the artist, not the location!
Great Photos in Crappy Locations
Enjoy Crappy Places!
This article I happened upon this morning is good – reminds me to keep my eyes open, and that great photography is up to the artist, not the location!
Great Photos in Crappy Locations
Enjoy Crappy Places!
Ken has a lot of good points. A photographer with an eye for art knows how the lighting, color, and composition are going to affect the outcome.
I’m sure that you have seen “The Making Of…” movie footage where the director is walking around with a hand-held lens up to his eye. He is forcing himself to see only what the camera will see rather than all the surrounding scenery.
As amateur photographers, we may climb a mountain to take a photograph, but we are often disappointed in how it turns out. “It was so much better in person!” The key is to start to “see” what is around us differently and capture those key elements.
…is up to the artist, not the location, (or the gadgets)!
Sol Lewitt made a powerful statement about creating things(art):
“Idea is the machine that drives the art.”