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 adding, but it becomes a creation of art when it speaks through such tools.
Learning to use those tools is interesting. After all photography is a wonderful combination of art and science.
It is on us to decide whether to
- copy a situation
or
- paint it some more (or less)
or
- choose what not to show
or
- show what you have felt seeing it
Photography is what you want to do with it.
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 adding, but it becomes a creation of art when it speaks through such tools.
Learning to use those tools is interesting. After all photography is a wonderful combination of art and science.
It is on us to decide whether to
- copy a situation
or
- paint it some more (or less)
or
- choose what not to show
or
- show what you have felt seeing it
Photography is what you want to do with it.
brilliant. and so is the explanation.
ReplyDeletein a normal world,
water can be 'life'
but here its contradicting.
here water is 'death'
however sky remains a 'silent watcher'