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Originally Posted by StephenBatey
Pretty much the same for me, although I also like to try to produce something that will have the same effect on the viewer as the original had on me. Sometimes, a phrase in a book may make an impression on us, and we want to pass that on to someone else. Sometimes just quoting is enough; but mostly the only way to show why it impressed us is to add a little more in the way of explanation. I see photography the same way - a straight "quote" of nature (which I think is impossible anyway) usually fails to convey exactly what it meant to us. Hence, I usually arrange things to explain rather than to simply state.
That means that although I want my images to look natural, at the same time I don't feel in any way bound to be literal. Poetry often isn't literal either  |
I think it was Ansel Adams who said: "You don't
take a photograph, you
make a photograph.