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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I admit – I find quality incredibly difficult to write about. Why? Because quality is a very subjective thing. What I personally consider to be a high quality photograph, you may think is lousy. To a very high degree, quality is about personal taste and preferences. Not that alone, but largely so. I have already discussed the technical part of photography, and how/why we can ascern quality from that. But photography is so much more than technique. Let me put it this way; What I personally consider a high quality photograph is when the photographer has a trained eye that understands what works and what does not work within the…
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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…
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[Eye C] my universe This is a step in the right direction. My own, personal universe is enormous, yet it points in one general direction; the art of c-ing. If you haven’t figured it out yet, the name I use for this – Eye C, refers to the act of seeing, it plays with the pronounciation of Eye vs I, and also points to more abstract ways of c-ing, as through thought and mindset, philosophy, spiritual paths – in short; perception. Photography specifically, is the art of capturing a small part of reality, to be presented in the most nature-like way of all art forms (ok, I do admit, certain…