Dear All,



This is my first post on this group. I would love to hear about your
personal views about the principles of good photography.



Here is my humble view:



Of the many confirming marks of growing up is the unraveling of enigmas
that were a great source of desire as a child, if not complete
shattering of the myth. One such object of great desire for me was a
multiple feature, professional SLR camera. The moment I became a rich
graduate student at UCLA , I had access to buying a good camera. Though
every time I came close to buying one, something else more important
came up. So I spent quite a few years with a very simple camera. That
was the beginning of a new truth.



Some of the best pictures that I have taken are not from a
professional camera. I started exploring new ways to see things to get
pictures from simple mechanical eyes. The use of perspective, catching a
genuine moment, inspiring my friends into a mood to capture a moment of
spontaneity. So perhaps, a good camera is not a necessary precursor to
good photography. It is a tool for a certain fraction of the art, which
plays on enhanced capability for optical distortion of visual reality.
However good photographs, can build on many more simple things. Good
photography most importantly needs a good pair of eyes that can see
beauty as it exists and the simpler and more trained the sense of vision
the less is the reliance of used complicated technology or hi-end
cameras.



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Best Regards,

Ritu Bharadwaj

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Researcher and Consulatant, Immersive Technologies

Former Research Fellow, UC Los Angeles.





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