My goal this year is to take my photography to the next level. Last year the next level meant learning how to take a picture; this year the goal is to learn how to make a picture. Throughout my life, technical skills came easy Minneapolis Snow to me. Math, science, computers and electronics were all about the technical details. There was no feeling involved. Music was the closest I ever came to an artistic interest. In that case, I excelled only because music at it’s heart could be very technical. Photography, on the other hand, has very little technical side to it. Photography, in my opinion, is all about feelings : reading them, interpreting them, understanding them and finally capturing them. When I approach a picturesque scene, I know the picture exists to capture the feelings. However, when I attempt to create a picture and buying prescription drugs capture how I felt, I often fail. In the end, I find myself randomly snapping things with very little thought to what or why I’m doing it. My pictures then come out technically correct, good exposure, focus, depth-of-field and sometimes even composition… However, they always lack that “wow” factor
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