Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Think of each work of art as an attempt to export something wonderful
from our minds to a physical form which evokes emotions and thought.
Once out there, our darlings have to breathe and fend for themselves!
from our minds to a physical form which evokes emotions and thought.
Once out there, our darlings have to breathe and fend for themselves!
So how to we transform thoughts to something physical?
I find it useful to consider each art picture as "offspring". There's an act of intercourse and conception between the "parents". These are your mind and the camera. Raising and schooling the infant to shape it's future, all the "processing".
So the mind sets the time, position of camera, and the camera has it's inherent parameters as its DNA too. Now we have a picture! What will happen to it? Well it's like any of your children. You have hopes that he or she can command respect and love, but soon, they are on their own!
Few will climb Everest, get a knighthood or discover a cure for cancer! A few will turn up in sleazy places and several more might end up treasured as leaders for others to follow.
Do you have a metaphor that is more apt for photographic art?
Asher