A photographer in training made a comment to me a few days back about digital photography.
His suggestion was that since the digital photography was popular for the last fifteen years, the photographic skills do not matter a lot as the advanced camera properties and editing software can compensate for the photographer's lapses!
That made me think about tit! It is now thirty years since I started using camera. I have no mind for the physics of light, modifying camera settings according to the light conditions, or viewing the sight to be photographed with a technical mind. Mom too shooting is in the automatic mode. So I have had more out of focus pictures than usable ones on many occasions!
Th conversation went on to him share his self auditing process in photography! Do you dare shoot just one picture or resorting to take several to choose the best!
He told me me that his ambition was to take least number of shots, because options make him less intense on his pursuit to excel! What if there was only one shot possible, as in some cases the scene might suddenly change.
He is training to be a bird photographer. He told me that he might have only a few seconds to sight and shoot a bird before it flew away!
So he said, take photographs thinking that just one shot alone might be possible!
Only one chance!
It came home in a moving way... we have only one lifetime in this sojourn! How we live, relate and serve are seminal questions!
Does every encounter with others leave the best in us for others to treasure!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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