Why must we?
By Caleb Wise
28 Mar 2008
The more I live in my life the more I've come to understand. I have seen enough activity to know the human mind and have read enough cognitive theory documents to get the picture. The picture of how people think. I would Like to capture different moods of humans in my photos, but in a different way. Ya know when you can look at something and get a certain feeling? Or look at something and get a certain smell? Maybe sometimes you relate those feelings to what you see or maybe you don't. Then when you look at a photograph you feel that, but sometimes(at least for me) I focus on the composition more than the actual feeling being felt by the scene. Try and conect with what you see, conect on a human mind level. I think achieving this type of photo would be stunning to the eye, nose, maybe even the body. Try to imagine (say in a woodland scene) what the terrain would have been like 10 years ago and what species of wildlife inhabit the area. And then what color trees/flora. Make a graph in your head of what your photo will be containing. The elements of the photo should make a feeling erupt in a brain or burst in a nose.
When I see folks talking I relate them to people I know and the feeling the people I know gave me then comes out in the strangers I see talking, in turn giving me a feeling and perhaps laying a false cloud of personality over these people talking. When I take a photo I try to abandon my attatchments to the outside world and forget about composition and instead live the moment and capture the feeling I get when I see a warm landscape or a detailed face. SO why must we humans take everything we see and gather a feeling from it based on previous experiences? Because our minds need to recognize a paticular situation or a familiar face and tell you what to do with it and how to manipulate it. Just think if you resisted that cognative notion, and what it would do for your photography. I myself am on the brink of achieving that ability, the ability to think and have a fresh look on everything the world tosses my way.
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