So, I watched another episode on Martin Osner’s Youtube channel the other day. In this episode, he discusses the art of composition, and why it is important to break the rules of said composition. I both agree and disagree with much of what he says in the video. One of the things I both agree and disagree with, is his medical reasons for how we see the world. He states that the human eye is not made to take in every detail in our surroundings – and this, I do agree with. There’s a reason why there’s a thing called peripheral seeing, and why that which we do not focus…
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By now, if you’ve read the two previous posts on this delicate matter, you’ve hopefully come to realize that quality in photography is quite difficult. Today I’d like to discuss three things which exposes quality in quite different ways. Those three things are; commercial photography, non-commercial photography, and photography true to the photographer. When looking at photography in general, one could argue that quality is found when certain standards are met. Regardless of what kind of photography, there are always some sort of standard of what is to be considered “good” quality, “good” photography. In commercial photography, this is extremely important. Not only need the technical standards be perfect; onto…
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Photography vs reality One common misconception when discussing photography, is the idea that a photograph would somehow be equivalent of reality. It cannot be. Why, you might wonder. Clearly, photography represents reality in the most natural way out of all art forms!? Sure. In one sense, yes. A camera reflects what’s in front of it, according to whatever technical qualities it has. What needs to be remembered here is that different lenses gives different effects, and trust me when I tell you this; a photographer makes endless micro decisions and choices that effects how a photograph looks to a viewer. Therefore; a photograph can never reflect reality the way it…