What was, or what could be?
To finish the thought, it would be “What could be instead of what is”.
For those that have recently been reading my blog, I teach online classes with the BPSOP, and I conduct my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshops all over the place. Besides showing people how to incorporate the elements of Visual Design into their imagery, I stress upon my fellow photographers that we are all artists who have chosen the camera as the medium. A camera on a tripod is the same as a blank canvas on an easel.
There are photographers (artists) that shoot only what they see. In other words, they don’t change anything that they see, they take pictures of what they are looking at the moment in time that it’s happening.
They call themselves purists, but they don’t have a problem manipulating their image in Lightroom, Photoshop, or any one of a thousands plug-ins that are offered.
Some purists!!!!!!!! They photograph what is.
I, on the other hand, am a painter. Actually, I did study painting and design throughout my high school and college education, and wound up with a degree in journalism and starting out as a photo-journalist…but that’s another story.
I photograph what could be. In other words, if I want something added into my composition that will create more visual interest, I have no problem moving a chair, table, etc. into my frame. If a person will help, then I’ll ask someone to ‘sit it’, or move, or walk a little to the left or to the right.
I’m a storyteller and instead of words, I love to tell stories with my camera.
Visit my website at www.joebaraban.com, and follow me on Instagram. Check out my workshop schedule at the top of this blog. Come tell stories with me sometime.
JoeB
