Monday, March 19, 2012 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
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Find the light first
I stumbled on Scott Bourne's article at PhotoFocus.com, Seven Things I Wish I'd Have Known When I First Became a Photographer, and his 4th point, find the light first, hit home. That may not be my first failing as I go about snapping bad pictures but if not it's a close second to my annoying tendency to focus on the subject and ignore the composition.
4. Find the light first, the background second and the subject third. This statement will be controversial to many of you – some of you will yell at me because I said it. That’s because you haven’t made the 10,000 mistakes I had to make to understand it so go ahead and yell, but once you stop yelling pay attention and you’ll save yourself some pain. EVERYTHING starts with light. I can have the prettiest subject in ugly light and get no shot. And if the background is distracting, nobody notices the subject. So start with great light. Seek it out. Know it. Search for and yearn for it. Love it. Bathe in it. Dream about it. Then go find it in front of a nice clean background and THEN put your subject right there. You’ll win every time you do that.
Scott Bourne / PhotoFocus.com http://photofocus.com/2012/03/19/seven-things-i-wish-id-have-known-when-i-first-became-a-photographer/
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Boondocked - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
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Was Love Then
Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought calm and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx paperback pg 315