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rehess wrote:
After many years of trying to take photos omitting
people, I finally saw the light, and today many of
my photo efforts are like 'street photography',
where the people are what make them 'special'.
Long ago I had a similar epiphany ... that the
ONLY truly unique, unrepeatable, never to be
imitated, images one can make MUST involve
unique instances of humans and their "goings
on". You seen one BIF, one rare critter, one
sunset, one red-rocks-in-the-southwest ....
you pretty much seen them all. But humans
tend to create unique moments/situations.
You may have a classic "capture" of a very
rare endangered species ... but that fact is
simply the back story. The image itself, the
actual visual content aside from back story,
is "just another critter shot". The visuals do
not convey the back story.
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Cool thing about people pix is the way we
automatically relate to subjects. Often the
story that we think we see is in "the eye of
the beholder". Human visual content tends
to push our "story button" the way no other
visual content can.
Yes, some images are more beautifully done
than other more-or-less similar images, but
the "pretty picture" thing sooner or later gets
old, wears thin. But with humans, there is
forever the possibility of the new and really
unique capture. Acoarst no denying that is a
POSSIBILITY. Certainly, there are plenty of
people pix that just endless grind the same
old cliches simply inserting new faces :-(
Anywho, relish your new sense of adventure !
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