The beauty of objects

Holding a camera is more than just holding up a square object and pushing a button, but about how you want a picture of something you like or see is beautiful.

You can take anything, even if its something ugly, and make it look so beautiful. You can always aim the camera in different directions but adding color and effects to something can make a picture stand out better then a regular photo.

If you are using a black and white effect, you can always do something where you use shadows or the object in the picture moving. Take this picture for example, no colors but the shadow and the fog, makes it look like a story.

According to a famous photographer, Cartier feels that he doesn't need color or effects. He states that “For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously.”

Most people use photoshop or something like that to make a picture look better. That is anyone's first option. That to me would be the best option to use. It is better to take a picture and use it as it is because its original, its not cropped, it doesn't have effects, or anything.

Cartier also states that taking a photo gives something a meaning. The best way he describes how to use your imagination is when he says, “It is putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis.”


Photo credits: Man running, availabe at http://www.henricartierbresson.org/hcb/redimg/photo.jpg
people, availabe at http://www.lacasapark.com/la/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/6a00e5502b6df48834010536c42a8f970c-800wi.jpg