ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderI love taking good photographs. I don\u2019t so much like poor photography. To me there is a world of difference between taking pictures and true photography. Today we have a lot of ordinary folks \u201ctaking pictures\u201d using simple cameras such as the ubiquitous cell phone camera. There is some good photography done with cell phone cameras, so I hold no disrespect of the tool.<\/p>\n
Current cell phone cameras have very few controls and are extremely difficult to hold steady. So that makes them both simple and difficult at the same time. The result is a lot of mediocre quality pictures being taken by millions of unskilled people.<\/p>\n
Not a complaint, just an observation. Perhaps it is an obscure observation as per the blog sub title. Many people love their \u201cdigital snapshots\u201d so I have no desire to make everyone a professional photographer. It is just not a requirement. The same was probably said when the first Kodak camera made personal photography accessible.<\/p>\n
I love digital photography. I am old enough to have started with film cameras. I have no reason to go back to film. I know I have produced some very good photography with film, but the image control now available with digital beats anything in film except for very large format negatives or original positives.<\/p>\n
I have nearly 10,000 digital photos on my computer. Probably far less than half are unique. This simply indicates I can afford to take multiple digital shots and later choose which ones are my keepers. With film shooting I was far more miserly and selective of each exposure, not wanting to \u201cwaste\u201d film and development time and cost. Those days are gone.<\/p>\n
My interest is in the technical image quality as well as composition of the image. I separate photographic art from pure technical image capture but I don\u2019t declare one superior or exclusive to the other.<\/p>\n
Cropping and editing are an integral part of the final presented image.\u00a0 For me everything does not have to happen in the camera. Darkroom processing (manipulation) has long been a step in the process to finished image.<\/p>\n
There is also an art style I call \u201ctrick\u201d photography where images are modified (edited) from the real life captured state. Removing blemishes is called retouching. That is a very minor trick. I have removed fire alarms switches from walls in wedding photographs where they distracted from the image.<\/p>\n
Changing complete heads or adding\/deleting people is more tricky than retouching but some edits are not intended to be realistic. They are just part of the creative fun.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t have a personal rule that photography has to be WYSIWYG (Whizzy-wig \u2013 What you see (in life) is what you get). It\u2019s more like WYSIWISY. (whizzy-wisy\u2013 What you see is what I show you.) The art of good photography is in the presentation. It is what makes viewing an image a total new, fresh, engaging or exciting experience. There is an almost unlimited number of ways to achieve that goal. It doesn\u2019t always have to be a great subject. A bug on a flower can be as good a subject as a sunset in the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n
My photographic desire is perfect focal and light image control (camera and lens) combined with captivating subject composition and presentation. Oh, and having fun doing that over and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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