Thanks for this post, Paul. I think you're spot on when you talk about interpretation. I tell my students that it's not about trying to convey what you saw, because really, who remembers exactly what it looked like anyway. But we do remember how it felt and trying to convey that feeling in the photo what it's all about. We experience situations usually with four of our five senses, then the trick is to distill all that into a two-dimensional frame. That's the challenge of good photography and we use what we have in order to do that.
Yes. This experience kind of hit home as we were oooohhhing and aaahhhhing about the pictures and then found they were filtered. I’ve always been critical of newbie digital photographers who posted wildly oversaturated images of a sunset that Mother Nature could not achieve in a million years. I don’t want to promote making the digital equivalent of black velvet paintings, but I do have to take a less critical view and consider that the image reflects what the photographer really felt and wanted to communicate.
Thanks for this post, Paul. I think you're spot on when you talk about interpretation. I tell my students that it's not about trying to convey what you saw, because really, who remembers exactly what it looked like anyway. But we do remember how it felt and trying to convey that feeling in the photo what it's all about. We experience situations usually with four of our five senses, then the trick is to distill all that into a two-dimensional frame. That's the challenge of good photography and we use what we have in order to do that.
Yes. This experience kind of hit home as we were oooohhhing and aaahhhhing about the pictures and then found they were filtered. I’ve always been critical of newbie digital photographers who posted wildly oversaturated images of a sunset that Mother Nature could not achieve in a million years. I don’t want to promote making the digital equivalent of black velvet paintings, but I do have to take a less critical view and consider that the image reflects what the photographer really felt and wanted to communicate.