photography

Nonverbal storytelling.

I Switched Lenses and It Changed Everything

Which lens should you get?

...To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures. Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters...

Harry Callahan

Honesty is a strange aesthetic criterion to prioritize. Great confessional art was never about accurately representing reality, but about giving voice to the process of experiencing it—how we feel, not what we’re feeling, making lucid that which usually eludes full expression.

Dirt • Dirt: The Decay of Lying...

the beauty of that is just capturing life as it unfolds capturing moments how people relate to each other that's my favorite kind of way to work is just walking around and photographing life as as it actually is

Photographer Steve McCurry looks back on a life spent capturing iconic moments

And to think that for 16 years of taking wedding photos on a Hasselblad 500CM film camera I used just one prime lens, an 80mm. The average wedding was 72 shots only, with some as low as even 24 for a budget wedding, but if we really pushed the boat out we'd shoot 144 pics, yet often thought that was a bit excessive. Unlike digital weddings today,... See more

Before Buying a Lens, WATCH THIS - Prime Vs Zoom changed forever

As someone who started with 2 medium format camera in 1959 and didn't have a zoom lens, which was crap by the way, until 1979, we learned to first determine the perspective we want by MOVING our feet...not zooming.... then we selected the lens that gave us the crop we wanted. What you see novice photographers doing today is hanging a zoom lens on... See more

Why Zooming With Your Feet = A LIE

the next step is to try to keep it as simple as possible as simple as your use case allows you to the camera does a pretty good job at adjusting some of the settings for you as long as you are in charge of the ones that really make a difference use manual mode if that's what you really have to do, what you need to do but please know that there's... See more

Master your tools

Der Punkt

Innerhalb einer Komposition bezieht sich die Bezeichnung “Punkt” auf ein Gestaltungsmittel, das im Verhältnis zur Bildfläche sehr klein oder relativ klein ist. Punkte können über helligkeiten, Dunkelheiten und/oder durch Farben gebildet werden. Der Punkt ist statisch und behauptet sich an seinem Standort, ohne die Tendenz einer Bewegung

Unabhängig vom Inhalt und von der Bedeutung bezieht jedes Bild seine optische Wirkung durch die Elemente der Gestaltung und der Farbgebung. Eine gute Bildkomposition unterstreicht den Bildinhalt ohne selbst aufdringlich zu sein.

(Harald Mante - Das Foto)