This is a photo of our friends and family from our recent trip to New York City. As soon as we arrived we started snapping away. The day was hot, so we didn’t have time to wait around for our picture to dry before we were off to catch the subway to get to work.
A lot of our friends are photographers. Even though we dont live near all of them, our friends and family are a big part of our lives. The best thing about being a photographer is the people you meet and the connections you make. A photographer is someone that takes shots that have a purpose and are meaningful.
Being a photographer is very different from being a writer or a graphic artist, or even a designer. With a graphic designer you can tell what a design looks like, you can tell a story with a graphic, you can tell a story with a web page, you can tell a story with a movie or a TV show, and so on.
The art of a photographer is all about how they use light. A photographer can be described as someone that is able to capture light and its effects when it is bouncing through an object or in a space. A painter, for example, can paint light when it is bouncing off an object or in a space. A photographer can capture light, and thus create light, when light is bouncing through a lens or when light is bouncing through a space.
So, what do you do when you are tasked with capturing light and its effects on an object or in a space? You light it. Light is in the air, right? So when you are in the midst of capturing light, you need to be able to light the object, and to do this you need to be able to control the direction the light is shooting. This is where the camera lens comes into play.
You can think of light as the air you breathe, or the water you drink, or fire you have built a fire with. Light is also a form of energy, and energy is what fuels the various systems of our bodies, so light in the most literal sense is what all of us use to fuel our lives. It is what makes our skin glow, what our bodies respond to, and what we eat. And that energy is created and captured by the camera.
The camera lens is a piece of glass that is able to focus light on the sensor or film. It is essentially a point of light. It is also able to capture the direction and quality of the light it receives. You can think of the camera as a light meter. You can turn up your camera’s shutter speed, aperture, and contrast to compensate for the light you have in your scene. It is like a point of light meter.
The camera’s power to capture what we see is the most obvious of the camera’s capabilities. Cameras are the most obvious power source for the camera lens. The lens itself is almost like a lens of sorts, allowing you to focus on a specific point of light like a camera. This is the camera’s power to capture what we see. The same can be said for the camera’s sensor. A camera’s sensor is a piece of film or film equivalent.
If you have a camera that has a sensor and are using it to take photos, you are using it’s power to capture what you see. This is why there are three cameras in a camera system. You have a film or film equivalent (or digital camera, camcorder, DSLR,…), you have a digital camera, or camcorder, and you have a smartphone camera.
Photography is a power to capture what you see. Most times this happens in a digital picture, and in the case of a smartphone camera it’s probably a photo taken from your phone. But photos taken with a digital camera, camcorder, DSLR, and phone have their own power to capture what you see. Like the cameras, the sensors on smartphones are also a power to capture what you feel.