Hi, >>One of the problems we photographers have is that of separating ourselves - >>our emotional attachment and involvement with a scene - from what makes a >>good photograph. We must train ourselves to see with unemotional eyes, >>thinking of composition and lighting, not so much about how we like the >>subject, or how the music makes us feel, etc.
> Personally I find the two aspects (emotional involvement vs what makes a > good photograph) are not mutually exclusive? FWIW, I find that the more > emotionally involved I am with the subject (be it a person, music, event, > whatever) the better my pictures IMO. But then again, I only make pics > for myself ;-) > The closer I am to something, the more I get lost in it when filming/shooting. but when you've finished shooting you have to look at the picture dispassionately, and not let the way you felt at the time cloud your judgement about its value. Other viewers won't have experienced the thing as you did, so they won't be bringing that to their reading of the photograph - all they see is the finished goods. They don't care how you felt while you were taking them, or how difficult it was for you to get them. -- Cheers, Bob
