Photography – Page 12 – Antonio Mozeto

[>>life as it is<<]

[a documentary photograph is NOT a factual photograph per se…It´s a photograph which carries the full meaning of the episode] (Dorothea Lange)

[dark is the night]

Photography, selfies, Street photography

[there was night and there were shadows in the night … there was a saint who lost his head … there was a kitchen chimney that spewed white smoke in the dark of night … deep are the shadows of night … there was a man who stood in front of a glass window looking at his shadow in the night … but there was a chimney from the kitchen that spewed white smoke into the dark shadows of the night]

… there was a kitchen chimney that spewed white smoke in the dark of night …

{less ‘factual’, more subjective}

Photography, portraits

“Make your photos less ‘factual’, more personal and subjective” (Eric Kim)

“Photograph how you feel, not how you look” (Ansel Adams)

{photograph how it feels not how it looks}

landscape photography, Photography

There are several ‘maxims’ of the great photographer Ansel Adams.
Alluding to my photograph of a landscape from Serra do Fumal (southeast part of Serra da Canastra, MG-Brazil) – taken last week – I wanted to rescue one of these ‘maxims’.

In short: “photograph how it feels (not how it looks)”. Because in photography, let’s not forget, “it’s more about the emotion it evokes in the viewer than about its appearance”.

If not, here’s what Adams says in this context: “My Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico has the emotion and feeling that the experience of seeing a real moonrise created in me, but it’s not realistic at all. Simply clicking the camera and making a simple print of the negative would have created an entirely different – and ordinary – photograph. People ask me why the sky is so dark, thinking exactly in terms of the literal. But the dark sky is what it looked like.”

I’ve been told…that’s all for now…
Hope you like it….