Sunday, April 30, 2006
Thoughts on Photography
I really got to develop my photographic seeing. Some how, I'm just not observant enough to see the elements which make a powerful photo. I treat photography seriously because they hold my memories and memories are priceless. There is an interesting survey result in the movie One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams, the survey asks the question: what is the first thing that you will take when your house is on fire? And a quite surprising percentage (>80%) says that they will take the family album. And in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Peter Pevensie (performed by William Peter Moseley) ran from the bomb shelter under an air-raid back into his room to retrieve his father's portrait (Peter's father was at the war front). A photography is powerful, and important enough to make one risk ones life to rescue it from danger. I don't have to risk my life like in the movies but I hope I will capture the best image of my memories by photography.
I think most of you all like the landscape pictures I took on my Norway trip; I like them too. But on a closer look, what I have done is to copy a great work of nature art with detail. My landscape photographs are not really great work of art but simply copies of nature's portrayal of them. Perhaps, the reason why I like the Painting Easter Eggs series more is that I produce interesting works from plain subjects of children and parents. I think it is very important for photographers to bring "life" into a subject which another person haven't seen or thought of. I am working towards that.
I think most of you all like the landscape pictures I took on my Norway trip; I like them too. But on a closer look, what I have done is to copy a great work of nature art with detail. My landscape photographs are not really great work of art but simply copies of nature's portrayal of them. Perhaps, the reason why I like the Painting Easter Eggs series more is that I produce interesting works from plain subjects of children and parents. I think it is very important for photographers to bring "life" into a subject which another person haven't seen or thought of. I am working towards that.
# posted by William : 10:40 PM
