KrisCarnmarker
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I don't think the subject title is accurate, but I would like to discuss a problem I have when viewing my own photographs. I'm hoping others have or have had similar problems and can help me with them.
Let me try to explain. When I view another person's photography, I am usually completely unfamiliar with the subject or at the very least I was not there at the time, viewing the subject in real life. The fact that I am "removed" from the subject lets me view/analyze/appreciate the image for what it is, not really in comparison to the three dimensional real life view I get with my own eyes.
Contrary to that, when I am the photographer, I am so familiar with "reality" that the image rarely does it justice, and thus I am rarely satisfied with the image. This mostly applies to landscape photography (which is why you will not see many of those from me ). I think this is also (partly) why macro photography fascinates me so much. That is a whole different world where "reality" masks that world from me. Every image is a surprise and delight.
Now, when I come back to an image much later, months or years later, I can remove myself from the location and view the image with a fresh pair of eyes. The question becomes: how do I remove myself from reality just hours or days after the image is taken, giving me those same fresh pair of eyes?
I don't know if I made the issue clear. If not, just ask away and let me elaborate.
/Kris
Let me try to explain. When I view another person's photography, I am usually completely unfamiliar with the subject or at the very least I was not there at the time, viewing the subject in real life. The fact that I am "removed" from the subject lets me view/analyze/appreciate the image for what it is, not really in comparison to the three dimensional real life view I get with my own eyes.
Contrary to that, when I am the photographer, I am so familiar with "reality" that the image rarely does it justice, and thus I am rarely satisfied with the image. This mostly applies to landscape photography (which is why you will not see many of those from me ). I think this is also (partly) why macro photography fascinates me so much. That is a whole different world where "reality" masks that world from me. Every image is a surprise and delight.
Now, when I come back to an image much later, months or years later, I can remove myself from the location and view the image with a fresh pair of eyes. The question becomes: how do I remove myself from reality just hours or days after the image is taken, giving me those same fresh pair of eyes?
I don't know if I made the issue clear. If not, just ask away and let me elaborate.
/Kris