Seeing In Zones For Preciseness In Your Photos
Back in 2011 I got my first DSLR camera because in a 6-month period I’d be traveling to 3 countries. I wanted to be able to capture the sights I’d see on my travels. I liked so much being able to witness the world through the frame of my camera, that I made sure I wove photography into my doctoral research, which I started writing the next year.
I found myself getting lost in seminal works such as On Photography by Susan Sontag. And I created my own research structure, which I called a critical visual ethnography. I remember explaining that for my data collection, I would make photos in manual mode so that I wouldn’t distort too much what the scene looked like in reality.
I think back to my reasoning and realize now how little I knew.
What I know now is that every photo is a representation of what’s going on in reality. Because of the capabilities that a photographer has to author an image, all photos manipulate reality in some what. In this blog post I’ll explain how you can interpret the light in a scene in order to communicate what you want in your photo.
