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"Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed." - Garry Winogrand

Other quotes by Garry Winogrand:

http://www.photoquotes.com/showquotes.aspx?id=22

Folks, he's using his personal experience as an example of looking, returning, looking again, trying different things, all from the same spot. It's really not about how beautiful or accessible that...

@Marike6 -
You might find Dan Juraks's blog interesting for inspiration on shooting locally with "non-dramatic" scenes. He gets down in the roadside ditches, uses whatever foreground elements he...

Can you say, "Marine paint?"
Actually, the shape of it looks good for well-held candid in-the-palm street shooting, working the shutter button with the thumb, the rounded end toward the wrist. And...

If you go to the Goodwill or Salvation Army, etc. thrift stores, you can usually find a messenger bag, and a neoprene computer sleeve or two. For under $10 you will have a nicely padded bag that...

re: viewfinders, I most enjoy the act of looking "through" a TTL viewfinder, with camera up to my face, rather than "at" a screen on the back, at a bit of a distance.
BUT having BOTH is the best!...

i don't do hdr, but since film and sensors cannot "see" as much range of light as the human eye, it is quite possible (if not too common) to use hdr to more closely show what the eye sees. it...

@Wye Photography
ahem, that was a classic popular adaptation of a classic movie line which was in turn adapted from the original book.

to subject it to any formality is as dull as this note...

What is boring or exciting certainly varies between viewers. And many postcard views probably got their status from the originals of Ansel Adams and other photographers. But beyond his photos and...