Hey Jim Feilen here, and I have a quick question for you. When you capture a picture what do you do with it?
What is your purpose for spending the time and money in capturing this priceless moment. Is it for someone special, your kids or just to have something to remind you of the moment? Technology has changed so much that I believe we have lost the art of photography.
It’s so easy to just go out and snap a few hundred photos and see what turns out. Hope I get a good one! Then most of us never do anything with them. We never show them to people, get prints or hang them on the wall.
I remember when my son was born and I carried a whole new stack of pictures every week to show every one at work. I also got doubles in case those were ruined or fingerprinted. Yes, you could say I was a little crazy. So, I wont even tell you I also got them on CD’s.
Sometime I look at my kids and wonder why are they like that. A few days ago I leaned over and pulled an album out and remember they were just like that when they were babies. My 9 yr old even has the exact same expression.
Photography to me is about telling a story. The story of life. People used to write in journals about their day to day experiences both good and bad. We had to visualize the story as we read it. Now we use photos to tell that story.
A photo freezes the moment and you still have to visualize what was happening. The rest of the story!
So when grabbing your camera really think about what you want to capture and who you are capturing it for.