Capturing the Moment
PHOTOGRAPHS CAN BE REDUCED TO LIGHT, LINES, AND MOMENTS. Everything else is derivative, a subcategory or effect of those three fundamentals. The more I study photographs from the last two centuries—the incredibly short lifespan of our art so far—the more convinced I am that everything’s been photographed; that our challenge now is to manipulate light, lines, and moments in the frame in a way that expresses our unique view of those so-often-photographed subjects.
In my book Within the Frame, I wrote that our craft consists of “painting with light, in slivers of time, within the frame of our image.” Those slivers of time come and go; some of them last longer than others, some are so brief that even our cameras, at 1/8000 of ...
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