Exercise 1.1
Three images taken in sequence with no alterations made to camera settings or image framing.
This demonstrates the changes that occur to details and lighting within an image, from moment to moment, which are captured and measured by the camera.
The differences between these images are most apparent when viewed in a ‘preview’ window, and cycled through in sequence.
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#2
#3
While these differences may be imperceptible, without comparing the measurements in detail, or flipping between each image, it does lead me to question the idea suggested by William Henry Fox Talbot (1900 – 77) that the photographer didn’t actually take the photograph.
If each of these images were identical, I would think that he had a point, but given that they are not, the images that are recorded by the camera are then the result of a choice made by the photographer. That choice being the precise moment to press the shutter release on the camera. That choice being based upon when the photographer thinks the scene looks ‘just right’.
Could it be that it is this very precision that makes the difference between merely capturing images, and creating art?
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