I just got done commenting on someone else’s photo, and the moment I got done I had visions of another viewer telling me I’d gotten the interpretation all wrong, said the wrong thing, etc. And in my mind, I replied that I don’t look at a photograph with a technical eye, but only concentrate on the way it makes me feel.
And that’s all well and good when one is just looking, but if one seeks to make the photo, that’s when it gets tricky. Photography, perhaps more than most other expression, is a combination of art and science; you have to know what you’re trying to convey, and you have to know the settings, lens, angles, etc. which will help you to do so.
It’s that last part I need to work on. I may have some small aspect of “a photographer’s eye”, but if I don’t know how to translate what I see into what you see, then I’ve failed.
Back to entire weekends spent practicing, I guess. Oh, darn.


