I remember thinking about photography as a non-art during my early school days, you just need to point your camera at whatever it is and click the button and there - you have done your photography.How does that compare to painting a scene / singing a song. Trivial - I used to think.
Right now, right outside our home , there is beautiful red of fall in a tree. A beautiful tree with only red leaves. I have taken fifty or more pictures and none look good. It is a beautiful sight but then I point the camera at it and click and I don't get the same beauty in the picture.
Eyes can search around for the beauty when you see it straight but when you look at a photo, you see very very little.Photo is just one moment - just one! When you are looking at the tree, you wow at various perspectives of it. The tree has the time to communicate with you and tell you just how beautiful it is.
Let me take a look at the photos I have
1 - has bright distracting sky at the right. A little overexposed
2 - Color looks good in this one but the leaves are not focussed. This particular moment is not accurate.
3 - This one had some red in the foreground and some orange in the background. Neither the orange nor the red is in focus.
4 - This one - I had tried to compose multiple colors in. It is so mundane that it does not even need to be analyzed for technical errors.
5 - Had tried to compose this with majorly red and a little orange as a section at the bottom. The contrast has not come out well. The exposure is not right either.
6 - This one is pretty but I had not thought so when I looked through earlier.
… the list goes on to around fifty or so snaps!
It is tough to even judge which one has come out well.
Photography even with all the jazzy equipment we have is still a challenge that I have been failing to meet. But then I love trying :).
Right now, right outside our home , there is beautiful red of fall in a tree. A beautiful tree with only red leaves. I have taken fifty or more pictures and none look good. It is a beautiful sight but then I point the camera at it and click and I don't get the same beauty in the picture.
Eyes can search around for the beauty when you see it straight but when you look at a photo, you see very very little.Photo is just one moment - just one! When you are looking at the tree, you wow at various perspectives of it. The tree has the time to communicate with you and tell you just how beautiful it is.
Let me take a look at the photos I have
1 - has bright distracting sky at the right. A little overexposed
2 - Color looks good in this one but the leaves are not focussed. This particular moment is not accurate.
3 - This one had some red in the foreground and some orange in the background. Neither the orange nor the red is in focus.
4 - This one - I had tried to compose multiple colors in. It is so mundane that it does not even need to be analyzed for technical errors.
5 - Had tried to compose this with majorly red and a little orange as a section at the bottom. The contrast has not come out well. The exposure is not right either.
6 - This one is pretty but I had not thought so when I looked through earlier.
… the list goes on to around fifty or so snaps!
It is tough to even judge which one has come out well.
Photography even with all the jazzy equipment we have is still a challenge that I have been failing to meet. But then I love trying :).
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