Do you agree that when you show the world your photograph, you actually show what a lens and the sensor in that moment captured? I guess YES, you know that.
At the same time art is about expression. You express your feelings or whatever you want to say through your photograph, means through your lens and film/sensor. At a particular moment, a slice of a continuous movement may means something which exactly you want to say. May be that is not the actual movement was propagating, so what, that is your creativity, that is your art.
To tell what you want to tell, you must know how your lenses see and represent what it see on the sensor/film.
Here below are two sample photographs which shows, correct timing, correct lens, correct composition can say a fantastic story.
These two shots are taken in a house where the participants were doing "puja" - a ritual in Hindu religion before they start staying in a new house. The priest is in the front and the family (which is we by the way) were following him while cleansing the house.
There were laminates, nails, saw dust all over the floors and there was a plywood part standing tall on the floor, forced to level and glue some laminate to plywoods.
See carefully, that perpendicular plywood pieace give an impression as if the priest is coming out of another room, and the family was entering that same one. Even being this photograph a straightforward two dimensional document, it shows a quirky 3 dimensional feel. Plus, the girl on the first shot crossing the laminate creates a widened feel of the room that they were crossing.
This 3D feel belies you till you see lowest part of the plank that is grounded.
As I said before, photograph lies, photographer must use that benifit to say what they want to say.
Credit to these two photograph goes to Sumana Mukherjee, friend of us in Baroda.
I wish I had eyes like her to take such photographs.
Below is another shot of our "Grihoprobesh".
At the same time art is about expression. You express your feelings or whatever you want to say through your photograph, means through your lens and film/sensor. At a particular moment, a slice of a continuous movement may means something which exactly you want to say. May be that is not the actual movement was propagating, so what, that is your creativity, that is your art.
To tell what you want to tell, you must know how your lenses see and represent what it see on the sensor/film.
Here below are two sample photographs which shows, correct timing, correct lens, correct composition can say a fantastic story.
These two shots are taken in a house where the participants were doing "puja" - a ritual in Hindu religion before they start staying in a new house. The priest is in the front and the family (which is we by the way) were following him while cleansing the house.
There were laminates, nails, saw dust all over the floors and there was a plywood part standing tall on the floor, forced to level and glue some laminate to plywoods.
See carefully, that perpendicular plywood pieace give an impression as if the priest is coming out of another room, and the family was entering that same one. Even being this photograph a straightforward two dimensional document, it shows a quirky 3 dimensional feel. Plus, the girl on the first shot crossing the laminate creates a widened feel of the room that they were crossing.
This 3D feel belies you till you see lowest part of the plank that is grounded.
As I said before, photograph lies, photographer must use that benifit to say what they want to say.
I wish I had eyes like her to take such photographs.
Below is another shot of our "Grihoprobesh".
Heartiest Congratulations. May this house become the home of your dreams!
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Wowww..nice pic big b..and congratulations for your new home..
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