Château Azay-le-Rideau… take 1, 3, 20 shots
The 20 is with a catch, though!
This is not just for ‘old school’ film photographers — although it was made on ‘old school’ film in pre-digital days — it is to describe other ways of seeing things, because there’s always more than one way to photograph a subject… and here, for example, I illustrate three ways.
It doesn’t matter what it is… animal, vegetable, or mineral… big, middling, or small. A photographer’s mind should be as fertile with ideas as the possibilities the equipment and accessories are capable of in skilled hands. And whilst digital has made it easier with instant visual feedback, creative opportunities are not taken as often as could or should be.
For example, why have marked shutter speeds on the camera and calibrated apertures on lenses if they’re not changed from their normal settings and used with a bit of curious imagination from time to time.
Too often, accessories are bought with lots of ideas in mind but then only used to do the very basic jobs they were purchased for, and as a result, are used far less frequently with any imaginative intent.
Automated cameras and computers share the same specifications problem… roughly 80% of owners use only 20% of the features, if that.
