Photography

Photography, in conception, is the process, activity and art of creating still pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors. Photography uses foremost radiation in the UV, visible and near-IR spectrum. Light reflected or emitted from objects form a real image on a light sensitive area. It’s one of the effective ways to convey emotions among many skills.

Look at the following pictures. They convey the dancer’s attitudes to dance. Dance is about graceful movements, swirling fabric, emotive postures, translation of feeling and mood through positions, blur of moving hands and feet, rhythmic expressions etc. These Photos show a handful of dancer portraits which are expressive and always moving. The dancers are of all ages, styles, cultures and backgrounds. The photographer captures their lively body language and this kind of beauty may easily provoke people’s emotion, like feelings of perfect dance movements or thinking about what the dancers’ faces expressions convey.

Alamela

By: Frankie Fong

Fanny Ara. Flamenco Dancer. (#6)

By: Nikolay Chigirev

The photographer handles the light perfectly and it helps make her posture show a lot of strength and a high degree of emotions, may be pain or power and so on. She seems strong and independent. That’s what we call “drawing with light”.

s a f e

By: John Andre Aasen

Moreover, the text of a photo is of great importance. It usually introduces the topic and content of the photo, especially a photo shows the social image. The following picture is about celebrating the Sun Blessing. The photographer wrote a back story to tell us his experience of attending the celebration. 

"I arrived near 5 a.m., just before the gathering started. For the first couple of hours I just spoke to the people who were arriving, asking them questions. No one minded me being there, and I think that it helped that it was a celebratory event—they were mainly waiting for the Grand Rebbe to arrive and hear him speak.

They’d erected a platform for him, about 10 feet above the crowd, and at some point someone said to me, “Do you want to go up there? He’s not here yet, so you can take some pictures.”The men helped me climb up. It was an ideal vantage point, and it was an overcast day, which made it easier to shoot with just available light.

But soon it got crowded and, since I didn’t have any other way to exit, I climbed down to a flatbed truck that was supporting the platform, and that’s where I took this photo—right before the Grand Rebbe appeared to speak to them about the Sun Blessing."

We can see from the text that the photographer enjoys photographing in Brooklyn, it not only helps him to learn about different people’s life, but also gives him the opportunity to interact with them. It’s significant for a photographer to experience because they are just like a storyteller. Photography is the process of telling beautiful stimulating stories to people. The image is the surface of the story while the text may give a deep understanding of it. It may change the meaning of a photo by telling what really happens, not just judges from what we see at first sight.

Overall, a successful photo conveys true emotions that people may resonate from the heart and have feelings of sad or happy or others. 

Reference:

1.Spencer, D A (1973). The Focal Dictionary of Photographic Technologies. Focal Press. p. 454. ISBN 240 50747 9.