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The Practice Of Contemplative Photography: Seeing The World With Fresh Eyes (2011)

by Andy Karr(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1590307798 (ISBN13: 9781590307793)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Shambhala

review 1: This book teaches you, (as the seer/photographer), to slow down, to be mindful of the moment of seeing something.Even seeing something that could be photographed is as good a moment as actually taking the photo. There is no need to rush, to go to faraway places to get good photos. Moments of beauty are everywhere around you wherever you are.It is the 'seeing' of that perception, that moment in time, and taking the photo of that thing with no extraneous cropping, composing or fiddling with camera controls that contemplative photography is about.The flash of perception that the eye sees before the brain thinks 'how can I, how do I' etc etc.A good read for the person with a camera who is feeling that everything has been photographed before and what is the need to photograph... more anything anymore.
review 2: This was my first book on contemplative photography. It gave me a real sense of how to engage what I'm seeing. Since I'm a nature photographer, this book has launched me into a much deeper worldview of engaging nature and to develop my own body of work. My only problem with their way of doing things is that they tend to be purists and reject the idea of post processing. In doing so, they seem to forget that the dynamic range of the human eye is greater than that of a camera. To me some post processing may be necessary to reflect the real perception one had when the image was captured. less

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