Photography

I'm typing this on my blogspot only because i know less people read it. Oddly enough i want that.

Erica pointed out that my pictures have a personality a few weeks ago. I never really noticed, but its true. When you take a photo you have to put yourself into it, make sure the photo says your the owner.

As time goes by I'm starting to understand what being a photographer really is. Of course I take photos on the spot like anyone else but when I'm serious things fall into place. Oddly enough when people ask me to teach them photography, I can only teach them my tricks. There is no way I can teach them photography.

I dont want to be the photographer that takes pictures to make a nice photo. I think thats what makes the difference between a generic picture in a really nice frame and a picture in a museum.

Sometimes you look at a photo and you think, oh thats pretty or oh thats nice, and sometimes you look at a photo and your like I want that or I want to be in that. I want my photos to be the latter of the two. Which is why I'm so drawn to food. Food not only embodies the eyes it involves your stomach. Your brain sees food and goes I want that, making your body produce saliva, and making you hungry.

Art makes you feel emotions, and I want my photography to do that.Heck hunger can be an emotion right?

I once read somewhere that abstract is art that says "You could do this, but you didn't" I believe a good photo makes you believe this. I used to complicate photography and try to hard, it only complexes the photo making it lose its potential. God created life so beautiful don't complicate it just capture it. My style slowly changes to minimalism where shots should be as simple and elegant as possible. It gets to an extent where it makes the viewer go "I can do that...but I didn't" In a non-photographers head it makes sense, but a photographer understands that behind a good photo you have to worry about aperture,time of day, necessary light, lens type, and photo shopping style. Not believing in photo shop is basically saying I don't believe in vaccinations. It's a tool only to make you better.

I'm from a family of photographers so I learned photography the hard way. I learned about lenses, shutter speed, and aperture settings first. I was taught the technique not the art, and I know my way around the camera. So when people say that photoshop makes easy photographers it simply doesn't. Photoshop only enhances a photo it doesn't make it. If you are worried that your photos wont be able to compete then that means you still have more practice to do. Photoshop in itself is a art and it can enhance photos to extreme potentials.

Just like plastic surgery photoshop can help or hurt the person your working on. Making a pretty photo is much easier than making a photo have feeling. I still don't believe I have achieved status of a professional photographer. I'm just a amateur that tries to feel the scene and put his feelings in a photo. I now understand Dkwon, who said that he dances to feel the music to understand it.