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Do You Take A Photo or Make A Photo?

A rooster asserts himself.

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
- Ansel Adams

 

Just a quick note from Dan.
Ansel Adams was, no doubt, a great photographer.
What a lot of people don't know is he was also a wizard in the darkroom.
He sometimes took his work and manipulated it.

Using masks and varying exposures on images he accentuated features
seeking to evoke emotion in the viewer. He sometimes even combined
two or more negatives to create an entirely new photo.

So, he truly did make photographs in a very real way.

The Way I See It

A congregation of Grackles. No, really, that's what it's called.

To me, photography is an art of observation.
It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…
I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything
to do with the way you see them.
- Elliott Erwitt

Trust and Rapport

Just Grab and Go. A Kansas Blue Jay catching a snack.

All the planning, intuition, technical prowess, and knowledge,
as well as the trust and rapport you have (or haven’t) established,
will show up in the picture, frozen forever.
- Gregory Heisler

This is something that many photographers, including myself, sometimes forget. It can really hurt a potentially great photo shoot.

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