The Photographer’s Eye GOAL: identify 5 basic principles of photography
The Photographer’s Eye
GOAL: identify 5 basic principles of photography
The Thing
The Detail
The Frame/ cropping
Time / movement
Vantage Point
The Thing/ subject • Evokes presence of reality • Substitute for subject
The Detail • Photographs can not tell the whole story
Frame/ cropping • Edge defines content
Time • Photography has special relation to time
Time & Memory and the Past
• …that what has been… • …the melancholic element
The Decisive Moment
• …when to click?
Vantage Point • Clarify
• Obscure
• Make formal order
5 basic photographic principles