SwampGrizz
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- Dale Yawn
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Hello All
First thing I want to say is that I have spent a good amount of time looking at the photographs on this site. They are stunning. Being the newbie that I am, I feel like I’m swimming around in the very deep end of the pool. Way over my head. There is some first class stuff on here.
Now to my point. I have been reviewing some of my pictures, and with a few lucky exceptions, they all look like the opportunistic snapshots that they are. Most all of the shots on here appear to me to have some sort of intention behind them. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the spontaneous act of stumbling up on interesting stuff, but that takes you only so far. I have looked at a blue million videos and articles about how to put soul and emotion and feeling and blah blah blah into your photographs, but I can’t get the hang of it. I didn’t really understand this until I saw a photograph that ORSONNEKE recently posted of a woman’s hands peeling potatoes. I responded to the thread that it took me back to when I was a child in my Aunt Minnie’s kitchen and remember the smells of the biscuits baking and the coffee brewing. That’s what a photograph should do.
How do I find that intentionality? I understand that this is a very subjective, loose, and open-ended question with no clear answer, but I would greatly appreciate knowing how you take photographs instead of snapshots. All advice, tips, and opinions welcome.
Swampgrizz
First thing I want to say is that I have spent a good amount of time looking at the photographs on this site. They are stunning. Being the newbie that I am, I feel like I’m swimming around in the very deep end of the pool. Way over my head. There is some first class stuff on here.
Now to my point. I have been reviewing some of my pictures, and with a few lucky exceptions, they all look like the opportunistic snapshots that they are. Most all of the shots on here appear to me to have some sort of intention behind them. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the spontaneous act of stumbling up on interesting stuff, but that takes you only so far. I have looked at a blue million videos and articles about how to put soul and emotion and feeling and blah blah blah into your photographs, but I can’t get the hang of it. I didn’t really understand this until I saw a photograph that ORSONNEKE recently posted of a woman’s hands peeling potatoes. I responded to the thread that it took me back to when I was a child in my Aunt Minnie’s kitchen and remember the smells of the biscuits baking and the coffee brewing. That’s what a photograph should do.
How do I find that intentionality? I understand that this is a very subjective, loose, and open-ended question with no clear answer, but I would greatly appreciate knowing how you take photographs instead of snapshots. All advice, tips, and opinions welcome.
Swampgrizz
