Monday, August 13, 2012

Week 06 EOC: How has art changed you

For me, Photography and Art have changed my life mainly in two aspects. First, it has taught me how to appreciate time. Second, it has taught me how to focus myself and to notice things. Coming from a family where I was the only child and often times mentally and physically abuse for just being alive. Photography helped me escape one reality and exchange it for a far better one.

First, time used to be a measurement of getting from one place to another. For most people, it’s about always being “on the move,” striving to get ahead of the pack, just trying to stay alive. For me, now, time is spent much differently. I spend my time trying to take in my surroundings with a more discerning consciousness, and attempting to look and see everything that I can at any given moment. Time is more than time passing me by, or a clock ticking from one hour to the next, time is a place and fact that I use to merge into my ability to see and look in advance, in why I would approach my subject matters, and how I would use that time to my advantage to capture the image that I’ve visualize.

For sure, every photographer worth his or her salt, needs to know about and how to use proper focus; but I’m also talking about focus in relationship to personal focus. Focus on your camera’s battery, focus on your camera settings, focus on your subject, focus on your environment, and even focus on your time management. It’s not always about taking the picture, but as importantly the process of how you’re going to do so–the post processing, marketing, mounting, and all else that keeps us photographers concerned about and why we are passionate about taking pictures. This list is interminable, and goes on and on.

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