Zero to Pro - Photo Blog 8
My main interest at the moment is in making beautiful images. The subject matter doesn’t matter too much to me at this stage. I’m sure an interest in specific genres will develop through study of and experience in different fields. For now, I feel it’s important to take the time to find out where my skills lie (if indeed I have any), where they would be best placed and where I would enjoy using them most.
The
photographs I most like to look at perhaps reflect the photographs I’d most
like to take. People and emotion seem to
be the central themes.
I first thought about studying photography a few years ago and started to compile a reading list from which to learn the basics. I stumbled across a book at that time which didn’t seem at all relevant to my requirements but it stopped me in my tracks and insisted I bought it. That book was ‘Street Photography Now’ by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren. As soon as I got my hands on it, I walked slowly through the pages and was amazed to see a running commentary on life in almost every image. That’s when I really fell in love with photography, when I realised that it has the potential to tell the story of life in a single shot.
I first thought about studying photography a few years ago and started to compile a reading list from which to learn the basics. I stumbled across a book at that time which didn’t seem at all relevant to my requirements but it stopped me in my tracks and insisted I bought it. That book was ‘Street Photography Now’ by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren. As soon as I got my hands on it, I walked slowly through the pages and was amazed to see a running commentary on life in almost every image. That’s when I really fell in love with photography, when I realised that it has the potential to tell the story of life in a single shot.
So, as a
starting point, I decided to hit the streets, aiming to capture images that
speak of the human experience or better still the human spirit.
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