Photography portfolio of Ziemowit Maj.
Good light, bad photography.
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Light is all in photography, literally, it is what makes it physically possible and of course is the grammar of it’s language. Learning how to see the light, how to spot the best way to use the existing light, what is it’s inherent character and what subject will make most sense in that light, or what aspect of your subject will be underlined and which will lose it’s prominence, that is all quite an important chunk of what we are striving for.
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In my hands, light is a tool. I strive to use it, not to show it, if you know what I mean.
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You see a lot of boring work out there, that treats light as a ‘special effect’ kind of thing.
Silhouettes, flare, washed out images, overexposure etc all come to mind as ‘guilty’ of very often being cool visual gimmicks and nothing more. Good light and bad photography go hand in hand, it would seem.
I do admit, I was guilty of pure aesthetic in the past as well. Something you have to go through I guess.
