Comments on: Photo Of The Day – Reflection Of A Heron http://thecareyadventures.com/blog/2009/photo-of-the-day-reflection-of-a-heron/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=photo-of-the-day-reflection-of-a-heron EXPLORE - INSPIRE - EDUCATE Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: D. Travis North http://thecareyadventures.com/blog/2009/photo-of-the-day-reflection-of-a-heron/comment-page-1/#comment-2146 D. Travis North Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:21:05 +0000 http://thecareyadventures.com/blog/2009/photo-of-the-day-reflection-of-a-heron/#comment-2146 See...this is why I love photography. Every ounce of my brain is trying to tell me that you 'shopped out the bird with ripples in the water. But some part of me is trying to figure out how you did it 'in camera'. It's a juxtaposition of knowing what kind of photographer you are (the 'in-camera' type) and what is physically possible. It's knowing that cameras are based in the world of physics, and that physics can be bent and reshaped to fit the desires of the photographer. That is amazing to me, and if there's one thing the 'net has brought to us all...it's the inspiration of people like you and photographs like this. Whether or not we know much about the photo (and you are sharing your info so we know about this photo) - it's shots like this that drive myself (and presumably others) to try to duplicate and mimic the photo. It's not that we can think we can do it better...but that the discovery is going to blend into our own style somehow and that we will eventually learn from it. Even if we don't fully achieve the goal (to duplicate the shot), we will somehow learn something along the way. We're not photographers. We're optical scientists. See…this is why I love photography. Every ounce of my brain is trying to tell me that you ‘shopped out the bird with ripples in the water. But some part of me is trying to figure out how you did it ‘in camera’. It’s a juxtaposition of knowing what kind of photographer you are (the ‘in-camera’ type) and what is physically possible. It’s knowing that cameras are based in the world of physics, and that physics can be bent and reshaped to fit the desires of the photographer.

That is amazing to me, and if there’s one thing the ‘net has brought to us all…it’s the inspiration of people like you and photographs like this. Whether or not we know much about the photo (and you are sharing your info so we know about this photo) – it’s shots like this that drive myself (and presumably others) to try to duplicate and mimic the photo. It’s not that we can think we can do it better…but that the discovery is going to blend into our own style somehow and that we will eventually learn from it. Even if we don’t fully achieve the goal (to duplicate the shot), we will somehow learn something along the way.

We’re not photographers. We’re optical scientists.

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