Nothing But Ideas For Photographers

Everything comes from an idea. Everyone has his/her own unique idea. There will be no exactly similar idea between one another. If there are a hundred of people at the same place, then, there will be a hundred of ideas in that place. In photography, I think, idea is a starting point – the beginning of a photograph. Idea is the main thing photographers should obtain. What distinguishes those ideas, then, is its quality and quantity.

Quality of ideas means uniqueness, originality and capability of grabbing one’s interest. The last thing mentioned is very relative, depending on what purpose we shoot. Whereas, quantity is more about how much ideas we have; there are many lack-of-ideas photographers though there are also some brilliant ones. In fact, I do not go along with the saying that quality and quantity of ideas is born-gifted. I would rather say that why a manager, as an analogy, is capable of one-time-shot decision making is because he/she is capable of handling a situation (educated and well-informed about a particular field) and high-experienced. It is similar to a photographer who has many visual references and is high-experienced (i.e. photographing); he/she would easily decide how a photo subject must be executed – moment, composition, angle, lighting, color, even expression and gesture have all been imagined. I mentioned “visual reference” above. This term – I do not know why, appears in my mind like a light bulb – refers to how much our brain captures and perceives a visual phenomenon as a form of communication and expression. Perceiving paintings, photo exhibitions, qualified films (cinematographically), and other visual communication forms can enhance our visual references.

How lucky photographers live in the internet era are, because everything can be done on-line. Since photography is put to be the part of visual art, do not claim ourselves true photography artists if we often visit computer or photography equipment exhibitions only. Do the contrary; visit the art galleries or have a discussion with high-experienced painters, statuary artists or photographers.

An entity need to be said further here – if photography is put to be the part of visual art – is about how to make up an idea. I think, a visual idea must be soul-clothed. If not, a photo would be tasteless (like soup without spices), no matter how it is packaged or how we set the lighting, tones, brightness-contrast, composition, etc. All kinds of photography – journalistic, landscape, even fashion – would think the same thing: idea is everything. How if we could make an interesting photo but is not constituted from an original idea? It is fine; depends on how much we “plagiarize”. If it is nearly up to 100%, we will always be in the “last coach”. If we want to move on to the “front coach”, we need to develop ourselves some of those ideas. However, hopefully, we will always be inside the coach with many unique, original and brilliant ideas.

About The Author Ari has been writing articles for nearly 4 years. Come visit his latest website over at http://www.duvetcoverqueendeals.com which helps people find the best duvet cover queen deals and information they are looking for when doing home renovation.