Come and Explore Photography In Different Eyes
If you walked around all day, viewing the world with one eye shut, you would see the world as a digital camera sees it, flat and two-dimensional. Every pixel collected by its sensors has an x and a y coordinate, but there is no z coordinate to a camera pixel. The camera can capture shape, but not volume. The camera can only “see’ shades of gray, from black to white. Color has to be manufactured through an algorithm of filters. The camera-s sensors do not know which things are alive and which things have no life of their own.
There are other things that the camera is unaware of, things such as joy, sorrow, pain, euphoria, depression, beauty, ugliness, hate, and love. The camera has no way of knowing the value of these things which are indispensable to the human experience. Regardless of the quality of the camera, the value of the photographic image always comes from the mind and heart of the photographer. The photographer, knowing the limitations of the camera, and the capabilities of the camera, can add emotions to the image by using perspective, composition, light, and focus.
The lens controls the perspective of the image. From the same vantage point, two different lens will push together or pull apart objects in the image. All skilled photographers are keen composers and storytellers. It is not enough to squeeze all of an image-s objects into the frame. They have to be placed in the frame in such a way that they unfold into a great story. All great photographers have learned that the quality and type of light captured will add what the camera can never see or feel, emotion. Focus, the last adjustment made before taking a picture, will literally align the audience-s viewpoint with the photographer-s viewpoint.