Quadrimetry

The way back home

Anyone will see what he wants to see in this picture. This is why I like photography. There’s a moment after a photo session that I’d like to talk about. It’s when you just finished your day or your assignment. On the way back home, you’re exhausted by the excitement of capturing moments taking care to not lose the memory cards and thinking about what you just shot and especially about two or three pictures. Because you know that they are good! One friend compared that moment to “mushroom foraging”, you’re tired, excited to arrive home to taste the mushrooms. I’m talking about normal mushrooms, the one you cook….

The four steps of my photographs

Once you arrive home, you sit down in front of your computer, slide the cards inside the card reader start the transfer, prepare some coffee and wait, think, a deep breath while the process bar is getting full.  Then the second part is starting, the hardest one.

As I said this picture was not expected to be edited like this. As most of my photographs I don’t know the exact result that I’ll have before or even after I took it. But what I noticed is that there’s always four steps in my photography.

First, the moment when you think about it. It’s always blurry, I just know when, where with whom.

The second step is to shoot it after trying and trying different angles, lenses and lights you have it, but still you know it’s going to be that one but how it will look like I never knew.

So comes the third step, the editing part when you need to try and to explore the picture to get used to it to like it love it (or to hate it and drop it) or to wait until the day it reaches her maturity like a fruit ! Then you’re almost done.

The last, fourth and final step, is submitting, publishing it, writing about it and sharing it somewhere virtually or just showing it to someone see the reaction. Let the people see through your eyes.