Sunday’s Self-Serving Post: What Do We See?
This post will be a big departure from the usual and will begin a Sunday habit – I hope – my Sunday Self-Serving Post. No politics or economics, although this first posting – How do you see this world through your camera’s lens? – rings with meaning there as well. But that’s not my purpose here.
I woke this morning, a bit groggy, wanting to just give in and fall back asleep. Nothing wrong with that, of course. It’s Sunday and what’s better than lolling? For me, though, this morning was more about whether to surrender to a bit of depression, or to stir myself to the fight. I won.
Whether you won with this posting, I’m not so sure. . . It’s about photography, more correctly it’s inspired by photography; the world we see through the lens, and how we choose to capture it. For the record, I’m strictly a amateur but have pretensions of reaching a point where I’m still not confused to distraction by whether my chosen camera settings are making the lens bigger or smaller, or extending or shortening exposure time. Most everything in the science of photography, as you may know, is expressed in “inverse functions,” for example, a larger number on the camera’s aperture setting indicates a smaller lens opening. This kind of math always infuriated me as a kid; still does. Even though I managed to slog my way through a couple semesters of calculus, I still keep going the wrong way whenever inverse relationships appear on the scene, kind of like a mathematical wrong way Corrigan.
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