Get Real
July 27th, 2010 | Seminars & Workshops
Photography has never been about charts and formulas. It is an expression accomplished with the use of light, posing, composition, & depth. Sure, we can get technical about these three things and get downright serious about them, but techniques serve the sole purpose of sharpening our communication–expressing ourselves via photography. We sometimes mistaken technical knowledge as the secret to photographic excellence.
Well, if there was any secret at all in photography, it is to simply shoot from the heart. What does that mean? To see things with our heart. We channel our feelings and imagination into a photograph & hopefully it communicates our hearts’ content when an audience see it. That’s my idea of visual communication.
I am really excited to be teaching the Get Real Workshop in Kuala Lumpur this week. Ninety percent of our participants are out of town photographers. What an honor! They are one dedicated bunch! Each time I teach, I become a better photographer. Excited to shoot these three frames yesterday during the workshop. It is something fresh to me. Take care!
July 27th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Thanks for sharing. I am agree, shoot from the heart. : )
July 27th, 2010 at 9:06 am
HOHOH!!! cant wait for KK workshop
July 28th, 2010 at 8:51 am
That female model is my friend
lucky her 
I am just wondering. When you talked about shooting with your heart, how does that translates into the three technical things at the first place…sound stupid…but it is one of the questions that bug me quite sometime
July 28th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Rui Di: It’s like riding a bike. You do it so well, that you can instinctively steer, accelerate or brake as the situation requires. In photography, I usually have a story or feel I want to communicate. And I have light, depth, composition and posing to do that. A well taken shot always communicate a powerful message.
July 28th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Support your view Louis, I have also been trying to educate the new ones to forget about our gears and shoot with our heart. Some how, to forget is to master the techniques so that can are able to focus on using our heart. Cheers~
July 28th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
very very very much agree.. shoot with a “heart’s eye”.
is there any chance you make a seminar in Philippines? =)
July 28th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Sure thing Mark! Maybe you can make that happen?