Monday, December 12, 2011
This is about photography (like I know anything). I've tried and tried to take pictures of things in the house, and they always look stupid, even when they don't in person.
However, I took this - and it looked stupid. So, I cropped it down and down and down - this about 1/8 the size of the original. This more or less represents the thing I was thinking about. However, I had in mind that I needed the whole image.
Our eyes only focus on one thing at a time, and we scan and scan. Our scanning includes LOTS of good pictures, and so we think the whole thing is good - but really, there is only a limited amount of good stuff. We just put it all together. So, I cropped and cropped, and this is the main thing I wanted. I've got other crops of other parts of the whole picture that I wanted, but if you have to choose JUST ONE, which is what you do with a photograph, you need to find the one to choose.
I think it's time for me to take a photography composition class.
