The World Of Photography Today

I am passionate about photography. I’m always carrying my Canon DSLR and always looking for an opportunity for a good photo. People, places, objects, everything can become a beautiful picture. Photography for me, first of all, is a challenge, I’m always trying to see the beauty in trivial situations and record these situations with competence.

I love this challenge because it seems never to have a limit. In addition to this challenge, I see photography as a very interesting union between technology and art, because you can register experienced emotions and are able to redeem them at any time. Our emotions are highly related to photography from the moment we perceive a situation for a good shot to the moment we see it to revive that emotion.

In photography we have the ability to capture emotions keep it in albums or digital files and experience those emotions whenever we want. The ability to “freeze” time and record the emotion of that moment. That’s what makes photography so interesting and of great sentimental value. I can cite as an example, pictures of my kids when they were born and many other situations such as when they started to crawl, had their first teeth, began to take their first steps or their first day of school.

The value of a photograph increases as time passes. Photos that were taken from a birthday party last week will not have much value today but they will certainly have a great value in 30 or 50 years from now. Imagine also pictures of people, friends, relatives who passed through our lives and don’t live with us anymore. Certainly these pictures may have great sentimental value which may extend to future generations!

Many people think that a good camera is the key for a good photograph. That is not true. A camera can make a photographer’s life easier, but the photographer needs to know how to identify those situations that will turn into good pictures. Also he/she needs to have some knowledge about the camera, know how to combine shapes and colors, think about the background and lighting, among other things… and, of course, use your emotions in order to produce nice and valuable photographs.