Step back and walk away
May 19, 2019 01:22:41 #
Sometimes i would see something to which i say to myself "wow that's really beautiful". I would then take pictures and for reasons i could not fathom, it would not look anything like what i see.
After several takes where all the images would be crap I just end up frustrated and bewildered.
On such moments I ask myself what is there that i could not capture? What beauty is there that only the mind can see?
...With one last look, i'd then step back and walk away.
After several takes where all the images would be crap I just end up frustrated and bewildered.
On such moments I ask myself what is there that i could not capture? What beauty is there that only the mind can see?
...With one last look, i'd then step back and walk away.
May 19, 2019 02:36:54 #
Perception. You see something in a real world setting then look at it again in a photo you just shot and you don't see exactly the same thing. In the real world setting, things are multi dimensional but in the photo they are flat. Plus, photos don't always capture exactly what the mind sees. The camera is incapable of making interpretations that the mind makes. But then there are the photos that deliver, and it makes you feel good.
May 19, 2019 02:40:31 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
Maybe what you should have done is stepped closer. By stepping closer you focus on one thing by cropping out everything around it. Fill your viewfinder with just one flower, or even just one pedal. Maybe that's what your brain was actually seeing. The mind has the remarkable ability to remove all the surrounding chaff. Your challenge becomes, to learn to see just what the mind is actually concentrating on.
I am doing the same thing.
Hope this helps.
I am doing the same thing.
Hope this helps.
May 19, 2019 03:09:57 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
A fleeting glimpse from a passing car, will often not look as good, if one has the chance to walk back and have a good long look. Been there, and wondered why I thought it was worth a second look, and worth taking a photograph. The brain can play tricks. Of course, the best 'Shots' are the ones where you cannot stop to look and take a photograph. I've seen plenty of those.
May 19, 2019 03:16:58 #
lmTrying wrote:
Maybe what you should have done is stepped closer. By stepping closer you focus on one thing by cropping out everything around it. Fill your viewfinder with just one flower, or even just one pedal. Maybe that's what your brain was actually seeing. The mind has the remarkable ability to remove all the surrounding chaff. Your challenge becomes, to learn to see just what the mind is actually concentrating on.
I am doing the same thing.
Hope this helps.
I am doing the same thing.
Hope this helps.
That is correct and i often do that in making compositions as once in a while, I get the weird result specially from landscapes.
But there was this person who looked pleasant but when i took pictures of, the image was just plain horrible.
Absolutely confounded with that one.
May 19, 2019 03:18:29 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Perception. You see something in a real world setting then look at it again in a photo you just shot and you don't see exactly the same thing. In the real world setting, things are multi dimensional but in the photo they are flat. Plus, photos don't always capture exactly what the mind sees. The camera is incapable of making interpretations that the mind makes. But then there are the photos that deliver, and it makes you feel good.
May 19, 2019 03:19:38 #
Pablo8 wrote:
A fleeting glimpse from a passing car, will often not look as good, if one has the chance to walk back and have a good long look. Been there, and wondered why I thought it was worth a second look, and worth taking a photograph. The brain can play tricks. Of course, the best 'Shots' are the ones where you cannot stop to look and take a photograph. I've seen plenty of those.
May 19, 2019 04:39:09 #
This is my downfall and my photo style. I tend to see something and the image doesn't turn out as plan. But a good image none the less. The objective is to translate what one sees into a digital image. Often the digital format loses that orientation which a film camera is able to capture. In other words.. take a film camera along with you and take the same picture from the same location. Also, it would help to have another family member photography beside you as there is a view point perspective. In other words. that other person with the same or like camera may not see what you see, but takes the same picture based on your location and ends up with the resulted you're wanting to see. This is hoe I've bene teaching my wife to take shots. because at some point I may not be able to pick up a camera ever again. I'll be her eyes at that point.
May 19, 2019 05:47:51 #
catchlight..
Loc: Wisconsin USA- Halden Norway
Wallen wrote:
Sometimes i would see something to which i say to myself "wow that's really beautiful". I would then take pictures and for reasons i could not fathom, it would not look anything like what i see.
After several takes where all the images would be crap I just end up frustrated and bewildered.
On such moments I ask myself what is there that i could not capture? What beauty is there that only the mind can see?
...With one last look, i'd then step back and walk away.
After several takes where all the images would be crap I just end up frustrated and bewildered.
On such moments I ask myself what is there that i could not capture? What beauty is there that only the mind can see?
...With one last look, i'd then step back and walk away.
Your eyes see with perception, so you need to capture the image through the lens with perception.
A lens is like a bat in base ball. If you want great pictures you have to discover angles and view points and how to use the lens... not necessarily the camera. Any good photo has either a subject or symmetry.
Wide angle is perfect to do that in many cases... or in all cases if you travel about with a simple camera.
(Fuji x100F, 23mm fixed lens with leaf shutter)
May 19, 2019 06:25:15 #
Wallen wrote:
Sometimes i would see something to which i say to myself "wow that's really beautiful". I would then take pictures and for reasons i could not fathom, it would not look anything like what i see.
After several takes where all the images would be crap I just end up frustrated and bewildered.
On such moments I ask myself what is there that i could not capture? What beauty is there that only the mind can see?
...With one last look, i'd then step back and walk away.
After several takes where all the images would be crap I just end up frustrated and bewildered.
On such moments I ask myself what is there that i could not capture? What beauty is there that only the mind can see?
...With one last look, i'd then step back and walk away.
"Don't do something. Just sit there."
Visual reality changes continuously and relentlessly. So does the mind's view.
Three words that may help as to photography. "Preparation", "anticipation", and "patience".
May 19, 2019 06:29:27 #
Learn how to work a subject.
Try different viewpoints and camera settings.
Think about post processing and how it may enhance a subject.
Try different viewpoints and camera settings.
Think about post processing and how it may enhance a subject.
May 19, 2019 09:05:29 #
rmorrison1116 wrote:
Perception. You see something in a real world setting then look at it again in a photo you just shot and you don't see exactly the same thing. In the real world setting, things are multi dimensional but in the photo they are flat. Plus, photos don't always capture exactly what the mind sees. The camera is incapable of making interpretations that the mind makes. But then there are the photos that deliver, and it makes you feel good.
The mind fills in the blanks and adjusts things for you. The camera cannot.
May 19, 2019 09:10:56 #
I would simply not taking pictures. I've been in many beautiful places that I knew I can't capture that beauty with the camera. I just knew, I didn't have to take a shot. In such case I would simply enjoying the view and not taking any pictures.
May 19, 2019 09:26:35 #
I think artists cultivate a certain way of seeing, you are noticing perhaps unconsciously light, shadow, lines, curves, shapes, forms, contrasts, colors, patterns and all the rest that has been noticed by artists for thousands of years.
May 19, 2019 09:32:44 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
Here is something to try. I've done this in my yard. Pick a point to stand. Pick one or several stationary subjects. Start early in the morning, then return at least four more times (early morning, mid morning, high noon, mid afternoon, and late evening) throughout the day and take the same shots. The changes in the lighting can be amazing.
Also, one of the very good photographers in our club said that he looks for three things before he pulls the trigger; color, light, and gesture. The last one is wide open for interpretation.
Don't let this get the best of you. I have fought this same battle, especially at a car show in the mid afternoon. I have been known to stand, kneel, sit, lay in the same spot, taking the same shot over and over, shoot- chimp- adjust- re-shoot- repeat, repeat, repeat. Sometimes I get there, sometimes........
Also, one of the very good photographers in our club said that he looks for three things before he pulls the trigger; color, light, and gesture. The last one is wide open for interpretation.
Don't let this get the best of you. I have fought this same battle, especially at a car show in the mid afternoon. I have been known to stand, kneel, sit, lay in the same spot, taking the same shot over and over, shoot- chimp- adjust- re-shoot- repeat, repeat, repeat. Sometimes I get there, sometimes........
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