8/01/2016

Photography

I always wonder what the main stream style of photographs in America.
When I input Modern Photography in Google, the page turns into...

(I even thought that the color system of my computer broke out.)

With the development of filters and retouching softwares, more and more photographers choose filters or adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and so many other even more advanced settings to decorate their photos in order to make them more vivid.

As is known to us, colorful may not equates meaningful. We can evaluate a photo just from the level of aesthetic and come up with the conclusion that it's good, about the color coordination, about the composition, about the depth of the focus...But maybe there is not any stories in it.

Yes, that requires high skill of the photographers but aesthetic value can be created after the process of capturing the moment.

It seems that the tendency may turn into Minimalism reflected from the result of research. Actually, the tendency of Minimalism requires photographers to focus on the theme expressed by the photography.

That's hard to judge which one is better. You can't deny the pleasant feelings you feel in the bottom of your heart when you watch a photography in high aesthetic level. 

But I still remember one sentence I had read

"Steichen introduces Lisette Model, who was too nervous to read her own introductory speech: a moment is captured that never was and never will be captured again. " (cited from http://www.wnyc.org/story/what-is-modern-photography/)

I think the thing, the feeling, the reality situation contained in the moment you press your shutter can not be replaced and created by any retouch software or any excellent photo editors. So the story hidden in the photography ranks before the asthetic value, in my opinion.

Anyway, make use of this blog to send a photo just taken by mobilephone. The pixel is not very good. It happened when I visited St.Mary Church last Sunday with my friends and this couple sit with their children. Their young boy and the girl played with each other and made noise during the whole process of praying for the god. Although the father felt a little ashamed, blamed the children in a little strict attitude and said sorry to us but during the whole process, he hold his wife's hand with a shining ring gently. And they seldom looked at each other in loving eyes as there was no crying children and other prayers. It moved us, and fed us single dogs with a bag of dog food, too:)




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