We often talk about someone being left brined or right brained in a way that one side is the man/thinker brain and the other the women/emotion brain. No I am not say that the ladies don't think or that men have no emotions here. But there is a truth that our brains are divided up into different regions for different purposes such as for analytical thinking vs creative thinking.
So how does this apply to photography. Simply put while our analytical brain applies the rules of photography and the mechanical application and manipulation of the camera equipment, our eye in the viewfinder must translate what it sees into appreciable art. We must combine those two parts of our brain to generate a beautiful image. This just doesn't happen, there is a process to that creativity. How we see or imagine an image, and how it makes us feel emotionally is every part as important as to how we obey (or break as our creativity leads) the rules and work the camera.
I could go on an on about this but last Saturday John Paul Caponigro had a video of Gordon Hutchings on just this subject and the artist in you will enjoy the perspective he gives on "Looking Through the Photographic Eye". Enjoy!
Have a great start of the week.
Cya... Doug
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