{"id":162600,"date":"2019-08-09T00:23:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T07:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=162600"},"modified":"2019-08-09T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T20:01:33","slug":"dont-photograph-what-it-looks-like-photograph-what-it-feels-like-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/dont-photograph-what-it-looks-like-photograph-what-it-feels-like-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t photograph what it looks like, photograph what it FEELS like"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In praise of blurry photos, out-of-focus photos, and photos which are ‘imperfect’. Perhaps they better document our memories, emotions, and feelings of a scene — imperfect, gritty, full of movement, and emotional?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In praise of monochrome <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Perhaps this is why I also like monochrome<\/a>. Our memories aren’t picture-perfect. Nor do I think I ‘remember’ my memories in color. Our memories aren’t like photographs or pictures — they are something else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we are trying to achieve through our photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To embed our soul into our photos. Also integrating the emotions and feelings we had while shooting the photo into the image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Therefore the photograph is an experience immortalized. An experience of a moment, but also the experience of how you felt it and experienced it yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thus, a photo as both an ‘objective’ documenter of reality, but also subjective<\/em> in capturing how you felt about a certain moment or scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you want your photos to do [like a good movie]:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transport your viewer into your own world!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n