Merry Xmas

[Compaq]

I may have mentioned that I really liked that book, but to be honest.... it's a book.. it explains exposure.. it has photos to demonstrate. My brother is reading it now, and he has problem understanding what f-numbers are when starting at the beginning. I sent him to the "aperture chapter" and he starts to get the idea. Mind you, I have the 1990 version or something for film cameras, but everything still applies, of course. I find his book "Learning to See Creatively" as a much better read. Understanding exposure doesn't require a book. It requires a camera, spare time (and perhaps an online community, LOL). Learning to use the camera isn't the hard part, understanding how to take visually interesting pictures, being able to translate your emotions and thoughts into photographs, that's the hard part. And there is where I agree with Derrel that having gone to art school or similar, and being learned in visual arts, must be a huge +++. Just being aware of that since most western people read from left to right, and thus having a point of interesting in the lower right corner is something I wouldn't have known if I didn't read Derrel's posts. Different directions of lines imply different emotions. Something important to remember when shooting. If you want to show pride, tallness, sturdyness etc etc (it's hard writing this in English), you might want to shoot in vertical orientation. When you take a photo, something must have triggered that "need", in lack of a better word. Being able to translate that need, or wish;emotion, onto the photograph, and make the viewer feel the same, that's the hard part, and something that having studied visual arts, or visual communication, would make easier.

I'm not sure how I started this post... anyway, it's late.