Comments on: Are You Using Emotional Lighting?

By: Cookie

Cookie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:09:59 +0000

I loved the shot of Johnny Dep at the piano. some nice work in those ,

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Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:10:36 +0000

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By: Nghia

Nghia — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:52:17 +0000

Great post! Like the term \"emotional light\" that you coined. Yeah, I guess that\’s what we all are trying for… The connection rather than the complexity of light

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:05:56 +0000

I am so glad you wrote this post. It seems that most photographers are employing the most current gizmo to improve their work and it usually takes away from the original photo. I agree that there is a need for minor post processing on most shots, but where is the skill to get your photo with the tools at hand.

Getting back to the basics has been my goal over the last few months and lighting has been a major area of improvement ( and still a work in progress). My mentor is 87 years old and she still uses her 35mm, uses the available light, and refuses to open photoshop. Her work is still amazing and we all could stand to learn a few things from the old guard.

By: Jurgen

Jurgen — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:49:12 +0000

Good post, as you focus on coming back to basics. Why do we take the picture in the first place? Is it to show off our talent, our gear the latest gadget? Or, do we try to capture something special, the essence of the person, we photograph, as feeling, an atmosphere?

You reminded me also, on how important it is to look at old masters of photography (Ansel Adams, Horst P. Horst, Alfred Eisenstaed, Henri Cartier Bresson, just to name a few). Often, their images were not technically perfect, but they wrote photo history. Their images touch and touched us in ways that leave an imprint in us.

It is a good note, to think about again, why we press the shutter in the first place and make us better photographers.