The Photographer’s Eye

GOAL: identify 5 basic principles of photography

The Thing

The Detail

The Frame/ cropping

Time / movement

Vantage Point

The Thing/ subject •  Evokes presence of reality •  Substitute for subject

The Detail •  Photographs can not tell the whole story

Frame/ cropping •  Edge defines content

Time •  Photography has special relation to time

Time & Memory and the Past

•  …that what has been… •  …the melancholic element

The Decisive Moment

•  …when to click?

Vantage Point •  Clarify

•  Obscure

•  Make formal order

5 basic photographic principles