What Is Photography?
Written by: Guest Contributor; Ray Shipka
A captured moment in time, a memory, a smile, a tear, someone’s art, a school baseball game, etc - it is whatever you choose it to be.
It's is lost art and many cases, not seen for what it is really is.
It doesn’t need to be compared or judged because in the eye of the taker its just how they saw it and that moment is frozen in time.
There are many different aspects we can learn when taking up a more serious side of photography.
Lighting, shutter speed, motion. depth, manual, auto, preprogrammed cameras, mega pixels, camera quality and the list goes on.
There is no right or wrong, only endless possibilities.
With digital cameras, we are able to click and review our photos almost instantaneously, giving us even more possibilities for creation.
What is missing is the actual printed version verses the digital viewing such as on an iPhone, digital screen, PC etc.
25 year ago and further back, all pictures were developed and then we put the ones we liked in a photo album and put the others in a box for keeping.
The best part was looking at the photo albums and those boxes of pictures many years later, and remembering them. Or when looking at older pics from our parents days and wondering who is that, and envisioning what it was like back then.
That part of photography has almost passed us by - we have hundreds to thousands of pictures stored on a chip / iPhone / in the cloud that only the taker is able to see and never to be shared or viewed by others as years pass by.
Photography is a wonderful hobby and many experiences can be captured / remembered and stories can be told.
Don’t hesitate and just click.