If someone were to ask you what photography is, it might seem like a basic question, but it is one having a lot of answers. Perhaps the most basic answer is – the individual interpretation of a visual world. The important words here are ‘visual’ and ‘individual’. Naturally, photography is dependent on light and without having light. photography basically does not exist. Light allows us to see, producing colors and shapes, tones as well as textures. With seeing, the interpretation of the visual world starts. Many of us see colors and tones a bit differently. Your pink might not be quite exactly like my pink but, except in cases where your vision is hampered by color blindness, we observe colors distinctly enough to have the ability to identify one from another, then tag and identify them.
Photography may be used to document a picture of someone or something. It could generate an exact manifestation in two dimensions. More excitingly, photography may be used far more creatively to interpret the visual world and transform it either discreetly or dramatically. The way we each opt to interpret is the individuality which makes photography so creative and intriguing.
It’s tempting to lift the camera to your eye and after that start searching for an image in the viewfinder, but this overlooks the most crucial step in the making of any image.
Photography as an imaginative process starts in your mind not inside your camera. It’s tempting to lift the camera to your eye and after that start searching for an image in the viewfinder, but this overlooks the most crucial step in the making of any image. Understanding how to see images is where creative imagination begins, then learning how to visualize and interpret is where photography gets to be most fulfilling and your uniqueness begins to shine through.
Many who attempt digital visual art have trouble seeing an image and then capturing it for the simple reason that, unlike traditional fine arts where you start with nothing and create something, photography is a subtraction art: you start with everything and remove the unwanted to make the final image.
Unlike traditional fine arts where you start with nothing and create something, photography is a subtraction art: you start with everything and remove the unwanted to make the final image.
It is the bane of many a photographer: returning from a photo shoot only to be greeted with the disappointment of the captured photograph, either on the screen of the computer or in the physical print, looking nothing like they saw it at the time they captured it.