ajay124
Well-Known Member
Cinema and Photography
After a lifetime of sitting in a darkened hall watching stories and landscapes from around the world unfold on a big screen, I have virtually stopped watching films now. Youth is a time of indulgence, but when memories of the past begin casting a longer shadow than the dreams of the future it is time to let go. Letting go bring its own charms and ineffable beauty. Now I find what I see and capture through my camera far more satisfying than what someone else sees and captures through a camera.
Cinema opens up infinite horizons of how we see and respond to the visual information continuously captured by the human eye. A camera has the power to be more selective and penetrating. It is like a third eye which can see and capture with lucid clarity. Cinema expands our visual landscape. Photography chisels and hones it to perfection. A photograph and a snapshot are distant and unrelated species. A snapshot is a mere pressing of a camera shutter. Sans technique, sans vision. A photograph is an accurate rendition of time and space requiring immense control over aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation, white balance and ISO. But above all an understanding of light and how to capture it on the sensor of a camera. The sensor is the soul of a camera. Bigger sensor, Bigger soul!
After a lifetime of sitting in a darkened hall watching stories and landscapes from around the world unfold on a big screen, I have virtually stopped watching films now. Youth is a time of indulgence, but when memories of the past begin casting a longer shadow than the dreams of the future it is time to let go. Letting go bring its own charms and ineffable beauty. Now I find what I see and capture through my camera far more satisfying than what someone else sees and captures through a camera.
Cinema opens up infinite horizons of how we see and respond to the visual information continuously captured by the human eye. A camera has the power to be more selective and penetrating. It is like a third eye which can see and capture with lucid clarity. Cinema expands our visual landscape. Photography chisels and hones it to perfection. A photograph and a snapshot are distant and unrelated species. A snapshot is a mere pressing of a camera shutter. Sans technique, sans vision. A photograph is an accurate rendition of time and space requiring immense control over aperture, shutter speed, exposure compensation, white balance and ISO. But above all an understanding of light and how to capture it on the sensor of a camera. The sensor is the soul of a camera. Bigger sensor, Bigger soul!
