My intention was to photograph the bridge, but this homeless man passed, sat on the bridge and smiled for a photo. I photographed
I really think it's beautiful, wonderful and fantastic to enjoy a photo full of futuristic effects, having been edited with special filters that give a different air to the image giving us the feeling of being part of the digital world that the new era of photography and technology provides us. That's great!
But ... after the excitement, the explosion of happiness, comes the sadness. I as a photographer know that photo is no longer a photo, but an illustration. I also know that the more a photo is manipulated and edited, the more it loses the "right" to be classified as a photo, the photo loses its character.
The movement of the city
I am a lover of the technology and of the innovations that has provided in photography. The technology has helped a lot like the manufacture of increasingly intelligent cameras and smarter lenses yet, each with its function for each type of photography (landscape, Portrait, sports and street) and I take advantage of these technological innovations. I am an adept. But when it comes to portraying the image using such equipment, I'd rather be in the "old fashion".
I am too a great adept at the thought that photography works with truth and for truth the photography must provide his greatest loyalty. People want to see the truth and the photographer has the right to show this truth, regardless of how or what truth it is. And the photographs with their advanced editions and manipulations will mask and omit this truth.
At the bus station several people wait for the bus that will take them to their destination
Many people ask me if I'm thinking so, I'm not being intransigent, "conservative", too boring and that because of this position I may lose prestige in the participation of competitions or photography challenges and I say that I don't care!
Look at the great photographers of history like Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier Bresson. In their time there were no such resources and their photos to this day are remembered and admired as true works of art, fruit of a vision and creativity that no publisher or photo manipulator at present can provide.
With a bible in hand a man shouts in the middle of the bridge asking people to convert to Jesus
In this I think: Instead of investing in using in your photos manipulation and image editing programs, why not invest in knowing more about our cameras, improve our vision, creativity, daring, go to the people and with these elements to produce clean, true images and with a high load of emotion, feeling and reality?
Once again it was a pleasure to expose to you my thoughts and reflections 🙏
I decided to start to qualify my posts where I put photos and thoughts or reflections like "Photos & Thoughts on the Streets". I believe that so I can quietly follow my post line on my blog that are not only photos plus my thoughts and reflections about it. I hope you enjoy it and your comments and votes are very important to me. Thank you very much for all the support received. 😉👍📷
If you missed the previous posts in this series, follow the previous posts below:
- Despair Never
- The Road is Long and I Can Not Stop Learning
- Despite the Differences, We Have Common Goals
- For Shooting I Don't Need Any Camera
- Time is the Best Medicine
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All photos are signed in ©, are my own and taken with my camera Sony Alpha ILCE 3500📷
