Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs: Seeing
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Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs - Henry Carrol: Seeing
If you really want to take great pictures, ones that really stand out from the crowd, you need to stop looking and start seeing. Capturing the decisive moment, whether its a sudden change in the light, a telling gesture, or a street scene like this is all about anticipation and instinct. Sometimes you can't have it all and its far better to capture the right moment with the wrong settings, rather than the wrong moment with the right settings. Average photographers imitate beauty. Great photographers create their own. Sometimes, leave the camera in the bag and just spend the day seeing. Good photographers are contortionists. Great photographs don't usually offer themselves up on a plate. You have to go the extra mile to capture them. When shooting, give yourself time and keep probing. Often the act of taking pictures leads you to what you're looking for. Focusing your attention on a particular subject matter gives you more purpose and better results when shooting. Don't feel like your photographs have to explain themselves. Hold a little back. Give our imagination somewhere to go. If you go about capturing individual, unrelated pictures, you'll end up with a nice enough set of photos, but you won't come close to exploring photography's full potential. Don't overthink things. Photograph what you feel.
Examples:
- Spring corner, new York by Melanie Einzig
- Landing of the American troops on Omaha beach by Robert Capa
- Where my grandfather drank #1 by Stephen J Morgan
- Pepper #30 by Edward Weston
- Felix by Elliot Erwitt
- NASA picture of the earth by Apollo 17
- Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
- Cardiff after Dark by Maciej Dakowicz
- Sugar's by Alec Soth
- The Americans by Robert Frank
- Female Boxer #3 by Inzajeano Latif
I really enjoyed incorporating him into the mix this year, be sure to keep an eye out for him next year. Meanwhile, let's jump ship to Twitter! See you next week!
Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs - Henry Carrol: Seeing
If you really want to take great pictures, ones that really stand out from the crowd, you need to stop looking and start seeing. Capturing the decisive moment, whether its a sudden change in the light, a telling gesture, or a street scene like this is all about anticipation and instinct. Sometimes you can't have it all and its far better to capture the right moment with the wrong settings, rather than the wrong moment with the right settings. Average photographers imitate beauty. Great photographers create their own. Sometimes, leave the camera in the bag and just spend the day seeing. Good photographers are contortionists. Great photographs don't usually offer themselves up on a plate. You have to go the extra mile to capture them. When shooting, give yourself time and keep probing. Often the act of taking pictures leads you to what you're looking for. Focusing your attention on a particular subject matter gives you more purpose and better results when shooting. Don't feel like your photographs have to explain themselves. Hold a little back. Give our imagination somewhere to go. If you go about capturing individual, unrelated pictures, you'll end up with a nice enough set of photos, but you won't come close to exploring photography's full potential. Don't overthink things. Photograph what you feel.
Examples:
- Spring corner, new York by Melanie Einzig
- Landing of the American troops on Omaha beach by Robert Capa
- Where my grandfather drank #1 by Stephen J Morgan
- Pepper #30 by Edward Weston
- Felix by Elliot Erwitt
- NASA picture of the earth by Apollo 17
- Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange
- Cardiff after Dark by Maciej Dakowicz
- Sugar's by Alec Soth
- The Americans by Robert Frank
- Female Boxer #3 by Inzajeano Latif
I really enjoyed incorporating him into the mix this year, be sure to keep an eye out for him next year. Meanwhile, let's jump ship to Twitter! See you next week!
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