To quote Henri Cartier-Bresson “For me photography has not changed except in its technical aspects”.
For me I take HCB to mean that there is a difference in thinking and operation between creating a photography and the techique of recording the idea with a camera. By may 2007 I had paraphrased HCB’s quote to “Photography has nothing to do with cameras and computers”.
This is a follow on post from the previous post of the same name made a month or two ago. I have typed out the points as noted in my Photography Journal from June 2006 for those interested in the why instead of the how.
Photography
Input
- Why?
- Who is the photo for?
- What is the attraction?
- What – the subject choice
- Where
- Recognition of relationships
- When
- Lighting
- What is being communicated?
- Feeling
- Sensitivity
- Observation
- Abstraction
- Expression
- Imagination
- Intuition
- Exploration of ideas
- Subjectivity
- Creativity
- Self-expression
- Becoming one’s self
- Journey of discovery
- Refinement of vision
- Understanding of one’s self
Technical
Output
- How
- Composition
- Decisive moment
- Balance
- Focus
- Exposure
- Multiple Exposure
- Depth of Field
- Lens choice
- Camera choice
- Film / Digital
- Colour / Monochrome
- Filters
- Printing effects
- Presentation
(c) Andy Beel FRPS 2011
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Just checked your website, amazing photos, really beautiful! Black and white photos always have a bit of mystery to them that color photos can really achieve.
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Hi – thanks for the encouraging words. Its said that a colour photograph describes the colour of a mans shirt, but a black and white photo describes his soul.
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Photography hasn’t changed, the technology just makes things more complicated. And profitable for the marketers.
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Hi Martina – well said. thanks for the comment. Andy
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