{"id":844,"date":"2009-03-11T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2009-03-11T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T15:56:07","slug":"im-starting-to-get-the-vision-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/03\/im-starting-to-get-the-vision-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m starting to get the vision thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, David posted on pixelatedimage.com<\/a> another post on vision, and how hard it can be to take pictures. I get it this time. The last time he really went off about this: A Long Way to Go: A Rant<\/a>, I kind of went off on him<\/a>. (I even managed to pull Matt Brandon<\/a> in on my rant-back) I was off the mark then. Way off.<\/p>\n

At that time my picture taking was improving quite a bit. By improving, I mean that I was getting more shots in focus, with the DoF I wanted, with reasonable composition. I understood my camera, and could usually get it to technically do what I wanted. I was frustrated by a few things about my D40, and wanting a D90 pretty badly.<\/p>\n

I went off on David that taking photographs really wasn’t that hard, especially if you had all the gear like he and Matt did. After all, I had only had my camera for a year, and my pictures were getting technically better quite quickly.<\/p>\n

What I completely missed, was that David was talking about how hard it was to take a picture that represented the vision you had for the picture. I was just talking about getting the thing in focus. I wasn’t trying to get a representation of my vision out of my photography. I just walked around and took pictures of things that caught my eye.<\/p>\n

Recently though, I have been trying to capture something more particular from my pictures. A particular mood or feeling that I saw or felt when I took the picture that I wanted to share. That is much harder. That, I am finding frustrating. Whether it is at point of click, or later in photo shop, I am finding that I just don’t have the chops yet to get what I want, when I want it. Sometimes it comes out, but it seems more like luck.<\/p>\n

Now I get it. I have a bit more gear now than I had then. That, combined with practice is producing technically better shots more often. But now I move into the more difficult phase. How do I get an expressive photo, not just a sharp one?<\/p>\n

PS. Thanks to David and Matt for giving me time to come around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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