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
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Obscure
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Make formal order
5 basic photographic principles