My teacher said don't shoot photo's

Chile ChefChile Chef Registered Users Posts: 473 Major grins
edited June 18, 2009 in Technique
But shoot light and dark instead,

She was saying to shoot light and dark instead of the normal "picture"


but wouldn't that mean the light & dark could mean anything?

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  • sweet carolinesweet caroline Registered Users Posts: 1,589 Major grins
    edited June 15, 2009
    Start seeing the world in terms of light and shadow.

    Caroline
  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2009
    sweet caroline wrote:
    Start seeing the world in terms of light and shadow.

    Caroline

    Exactly..........a lot of the old masters, saw and talked in shades of grey or blk/wht......not color.......however they could also tell you what color an object was by its grey shade........

    Also she doesn't want her students to become machine gunnists as a lot of digital photogs are......they don't pay close attention and will just shoot sh** loads of files cause it don't cost as much as it could with film, not taking into account the life span of the shutter and shutter box......so it can end up costing a photg a lot if he/she isn't careful.
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  • Chile ChefChile Chef Registered Users Posts: 473 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2009
    sweet caroline wrote:
    Start seeing the world in terms of light and shadow.

    Caroline
    Thank you very much Caroline, I've been doing that for a couple of weeks now, I look at a gum wrapper on laying on the grass and I was thinking what a cool shot because of the suns position on it.


    It's going to be weird to think of light and dark instead of "oh that's a sweet shot I need to get it"

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  • Chile ChefChile Chef Registered Users Posts: 473 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2009
    Art Scott wrote:
    Exactly..........a lot of the old masters, saw and talked in shades of grey or blk/wht......not color.......however they could also tell you what color an object was by its grey shade........

    Also she doesn't want her students to become machine gunnists as a lot of digital photogs are......they don't pay close attention and will just shoot sh** loads of files cause it don't cost as much as it could with film, not taking into account the life span of the shutter and shutter box......so it can end up costing a photg a lot if he/she isn't careful.
    Thanks again Art, She touched on the subject a little bit about what you said in a nutshell.


    And she said use the light to excite the Silver :)

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  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2009
    Chile Chef wrote:
    And she said use the light to excite the Silver :)

    BAAAAM!! must be a touch of Emril in her photography..........now as a cook io use chiles to
    excite:D:D:D:Dthumb.gifthumbthumb.gifthumbthumb.gif
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  • Chile ChefChile Chef Registered Users Posts: 473 Major grins
    edited June 16, 2009
    Art Scott wrote:
    BAAAAM!! must be a touch of Emril in her photography..........now as a cook io use chiles to
    excite:D:D:D:Dthumb.gifthumbthumb.gifthumbthumb.gif
    Why do you think I've chosen my nick name Art? Because I use the worlds hottest chilies in my cook, I try to sneak in some habeneros in my cooking for the folks but they catch on.

    Laughing.gif. Any ways She said she had about 26 years of photograph experience and taught school for about the same amount of time to anyone who wanted to learn photography.


    By the way I thought photography meant to "photograph something" But it doesn't.

    It means "Photography" Photo=light graph=picture.


    It was a really cool class today and I can't wait for Wednesday to get here.

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  • hiroProtagonisthiroProtagonist Registered Users Posts: 83 Big grins
    edited June 18, 2009
    To paraphrase something Vincent Versace once said about the subject of a photo; "...the thing that happened to be in the image of light and shadow I captured in my image".

    An image of an uninteresting subject that really captures light and shadow can result in a compelling image that captures the viewers attention.

    An image of the most interesting thing you ever saw is not likely to be successful (other then maybe shock value) if the lighting results in a flat image.

    This is often the reason we are disappointed by what we thought would be a fantastic shot when we clicked the shutter. There are differences in the way that our eyes capture and interpret light from what the digital sensor sees. It seems to me that your teacher is trying to help you find ways of overcoming limitations of the camera respecting dynamic range.

    Michael Freeman's "The Perfect Exposure", which I just started reading deals extensively with this subject.
    "But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate. - Dylan 1968"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited June 18, 2009
    "If it looks like we were scared to death
    like a couple of kids
    just trying to save each other
    you should've seen it in color"
    -- Jamey Johnson

    "Don't take my Kodachrome from me"
    -- S&G

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    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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