Photo-Camera-Life

Light defines photo. Period. Use its potential, completely. It is directional, simple. So keep your photography simple to get the maximum advantage. Following example is to show how it can be little less than simple and fail getting due interest. Like too many good looking books in one shelf, you waste time in selecting than get max out of reading. Notice the arm of the spectacle is taking so much interest out of the actual point of interest, the face. KEEP IT SIMPLE!

What we see is not what a lens portrays on a sensor (or film). our eyes are more multi tasking. A lens at one focal length give one perspective only and can not like eyes and brain combined image, correct anything. We tend to see the world the way it is comfortable to us. We thus do not see a coconut tree through grasses on the ground. these two (perspective and angle) hence can be tools for a photographer to bring somethings new to our eye and brain's perception. They are tools for a photographer then. In the photograph below, low angle and a wide angle lens's non-human perceived image gives dead fish and boat nearby with clear sky and green grasses a look that we do not see. This angle and perspective alone brings a message of contrasting cruel world, nature's laugh and humane torture to it's own mother. In-fact still water gives a cold feel which a death can only bring out in us. Photograph is a document unless it is contorted in photo editing and photo