Digital BW, The Print

Truman Prevatt wrote:

>The photographer is not just one person. The photojournalist reports the 
>facts, but in the hands of Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith, Lange and 
>others the camera was used to convey the hopes, dreams and emotions of 
>their subjects better than any other media could have done.
>
>There are many good photographer technicians  but the true photographer, 
>the one whose photographs stand the test of time, are more than a 
>reporter of fact, they covey in every shot their message, their passion 
>and their emotion.
>
>  
>
Exactly...

When I've lectured to photo students, I've said, when you shoot, think 
first of the emotion you want to convey..  Given  that photography is 
inherently limiting just in going from 3 or 4 to solely two dimensions, 
 you need to not just replicate reality, but to convey the emotion  that 
is motivating you to choose that image as a subject in the first place..

That's part of what Adams did with filters etc..
 
Keith



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