Yasse:
What advice, if any, would you give a person
just starting out in photography?
Emese: Don't worry so much about technicalities at first. Learn to see the world through your lens by shooting and shooting a lot.
Yasse: If your camera were a musical instrument, what one would it be? What style of music would you play?
Emese: I don't think I can
come up with a good musical instrument analogy, but I'm intrigued by the idea of comparing
musical styles to photography. It seems so easy to think of a photograph — its 1/100th of a second of reality — as a symphony enclosed in a single note.
I divide my photos into three main categories: landscape, street, and abstract.
Emese: Don't worry so much about technicalities at first. Learn to see the world through your lens by shooting and shooting a lot.
Yasse: If your camera were a musical instrument, what one would it be? What style of music would you play?
Emese: I don't think I can
come up with a good musical instrument analogy, but I'm intrigued by the idea of comparing
musical styles to photography. It seems so easy to think of a photograph — its 1/100th of a second of reality — as a symphony enclosed in a single note.
I divide my photos into three main categories: landscape, street, and abstract.
When
I first thought about this question, my initial inclination was to say that
landscape photography is most like pop, easy to consume and beautiful. But
pop conjures up images of Celine Dion and Britney Spears kissing Madonna,
so I'm going to say landscapes are more like Beethoven sonatas, elegant and
classic.
Who can resist the love songs of orange sunsets, the gentle lullabies of rolling hills, the colorful symphonies of endless flower fields, and the deep bass of the ocean pounding the shore? If landscape photography is like classical music, street photography is like jazz.
There's no score, no composer, no conductor, just a strange marriage of unpredictability, freedom, and discipline. continue reading >
Who can resist the love songs of orange sunsets, the gentle lullabies of rolling hills, the colorful symphonies of endless flower fields, and the deep bass of the ocean pounding the shore? If landscape photography is like classical music, street photography is like jazz.
There's no score, no composer, no conductor, just a strange marriage of unpredictability, freedom, and discipline. continue reading >
