One event that changed my way of thinking about what and how I do my
photography was a deep review by Bob Rosen (I think, but not sure ) of a
street image I took in India.
Bob explained why the composition was good and why it works. Before
this review I was not aware of the composition of this photo.
Pini
Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
At 7:26 PM +0700 2/22/09, Trevor Cunningham wrote:
The composition is largely accidental, as I believe most street
photography is (and much the reason I do very little of it, if not
for any other reason than I simply try to compose most shots before
firing...can't get rid of my film tendencies).
Actually, I strongly disagree with this. "Street" properly done
should be compositionally no more accidental than any other kind. In
fact, to me composing the content inside the "frame" should be as
deliberate as making the technical choices, since a component of
composition is the technical part.
An emphasis on color here, there was a lot of saturation tweaking of
the RAW image in Lightroom to arrive at this conclusion.
And that, too, is part of the technical decision which might be made
before even releasing the shutter. Coming to your RAW converter with
the mental image already pretty well developed is an important part of
using the RAW converter honestly.
To put it another way, I believe that every part of getting the image
could (and largely should) be already in your mind whether it's done
before, during or after the moment of releasing the shutter.
Each image, when presented in its final state, is a reflection of the
parameters of your "vision".
That's one of the biggest reasons that I can't imagine filling up an 8
Gig card with abandon.
Pointing and shooting is not what we're working at on this list, at
least.
