This question reminds me of something someone famous said: "I spend so much time looking at what I don't want in my photos to the degree that I have to remind myself to look at what I do want."
It's not a matter of "showing" or "hiding". It's a matter of understanding what is in a particular scene and making decisions about it... "is it worth capturing? what about it interests me? what about it distracts me? what might others see in it?" ... and then answering those questions with the right position, the right framing, the right exposure, and the right rendering. To quote some other famous person, "The camera reveals more than it explains. On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been thinking about how I compose shots, and I've realized that I often > go to more effort to hide things that I think will detract from the shot, > than I do trying to make everything that I might want is visible. I'd often > rather do two "detail" photos, each with a clean background, rather than one > photo with everything in it, if the background has something I don't like. > > However, I often spend a lot of time trying to compose my photos with two > thematically contrasting objects, so I don't only think about hiding things, > but what I'm showing as well. > > When you compose shots, do you think that your style is more about showing > things, or hiding things? > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
