“Ungearing” Creativity
By: Andi Sucirta
Based on my experience, photography is not only about gears. Photography is closely related to how you wisely and correctly use your gears, resulting in good photographs. The secret does not lie behind the technology utilized. Technology changes, but good photography is eternal.
On my journey in photography, I always hold one value dearly: shoot it right from the start. This is true since the analog era to the digital era, in which we are presently in.
Digital photography does not magically transform a bad picture into a good photograph. Digital photography is used to get the best out of an already good photograph. If we are able to do just that, we already have all the correct basis. Whether the picture will be further post processed digitally is a different story altogether.
Easy & Simple
Photography as a hobby, certainly not my main job, forces me to invent strategies in order to pursue photography further. One such strategy is to make this hobby easy and simple.
Currently I have one camera and one lens. The reason is very simple: I can only afford to buy one camera and one lens. This condition has its own benefits: I can simply concentrate more on the subject at hand than on my gears, and obviously the weight of my gears is substantially less than the others’. Other accessories include a tripod, a hot-shoe flash, memory cards, spare batteries, and a few filters.
Before taking a photo, I always make sure that the batteries, including the spares, are charged and full, the memory cards are empty or already transferred onto the computer, and always carry spare memory cards.
Developing Ideas
I always try to gather as much information as possible about a photo object. The goal is to get answers for: who, what, where, when, why and how. I imagine all angles, compositions, shutter speeds and others. It does not matter whether the imagination will apply in the field. It is the preparation and the planning that is important. In the field I just improvise depending on the condition.
I also try to think about concepts and creative ideas, by learning what others have done, and probably have not done. I say “probably” because I have no ability of knowing whether an idea has been implemented into a photograph or not. Almost all ideas and techniques has been applied onto photographs. What is possible now is to develop those same ideas creatively. Digital photography enables people to learn photography in easier manner. Only creative process now distinguish one photographer from another. On this, do not confuse creativity and digital postprocessing.
About the writer
Andi Sucirta (www.andisucirta.com)
A photography lover, he is also a medical doctor serving remote island in Nusa Tenggara Timur a few years back. Armed with an analog Nikon F100, he captured the natural beauty and the activity on the island. The slide film used were sent from Bali and then sent back to Bali for processing and printing. With the income he had at that time, he confesed, he almost went bankrupt because of this hobby of his.
This article was taken from www.exposure-magz.com, and you can download the magz for free!
Based on my experience, photography is not only about gears. Photography is closely related to how you wisely and correctly use your gears, resulting in good photographs. The secret does not lie behind the technology utilized. Technology changes, but good photography is eternal.
On my journey in photography, I always hold one value dearly: shoot it right from the start. This is true since the analog era to the digital era, in which we are presently in.
Digital photography does not magically transform a bad picture into a good photograph. Digital photography is used to get the best out of an already good photograph. If we are able to do just that, we already have all the correct basis. Whether the picture will be further post processed digitally is a different story altogether.
Easy & Simple
Photography as a hobby, certainly not my main job, forces me to invent strategies in order to pursue photography further. One such strategy is to make this hobby easy and simple.
Currently I have one camera and one lens. The reason is very simple: I can only afford to buy one camera and one lens. This condition has its own benefits: I can simply concentrate more on the subject at hand than on my gears, and obviously the weight of my gears is substantially less than the others’. Other accessories include a tripod, a hot-shoe flash, memory cards, spare batteries, and a few filters.
Before taking a photo, I always make sure that the batteries, including the spares, are charged and full, the memory cards are empty or already transferred onto the computer, and always carry spare memory cards.
Developing Ideas
I always try to gather as much information as possible about a photo object. The goal is to get answers for: who, what, where, when, why and how. I imagine all angles, compositions, shutter speeds and others. It does not matter whether the imagination will apply in the field. It is the preparation and the planning that is important. In the field I just improvise depending on the condition.
I also try to think about concepts and creative ideas, by learning what others have done, and probably have not done. I say “probably” because I have no ability of knowing whether an idea has been implemented into a photograph or not. Almost all ideas and techniques has been applied onto photographs. What is possible now is to develop those same ideas creatively. Digital photography enables people to learn photography in easier manner. Only creative process now distinguish one photographer from another. On this, do not confuse creativity and digital postprocessing.
About the writer
Andi Sucirta (www.andisucirta.com)
A photography lover, he is also a medical doctor serving remote island in Nusa Tenggara Timur a few years back. Armed with an analog Nikon F100, he captured the natural beauty and the activity on the island. The slide film used were sent from Bali and then sent back to Bali for processing and printing. With the income he had at that time, he confesed, he almost went bankrupt because of this hobby of his.
This article was taken from www.exposure-magz.com, and you can download the magz for free!
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