RE: We drive to shop, to buy food
Not at all.
Without a doubt, it starts in the camera. If you don't get it right there, then you have no creativity to show there. I am talking color, contrast and all the other levels that you can work it. No camera can get that perfect. Ansel Adams would spend hours in the darkroom editing just one image, to create his beautifull photos. There was and is no camera that can bring out the final product that he was able to get.
When I first learned to shoot B&W it was on film. And you had to spend hours in the darkroom to get any image developed. It is the same with today's photography plus much more. The art is also in the working with lighting and sometimes the camera just can't get that right, no matter how good a photographer we are.
Do some google searching on what Lightroom can do to help you as a photographer and you might be very surprised and want to have that much more fun with your photos. Most, if not all of the top photographers use some kind of editing software. And some of it might be too much for you and for certain I have seen ones that is to much for me.
If I frame my photo like I like and expose it perfact, I then can just make the image pop a little bit more with making a few adjustments that take minutes to do.
I hope I am explaining this right? I love your images and when I saw you say you are taking the B&W images right from the camera I really wanted to share my feeling about that. I hope I wasn't affending you in any way?
Thank you!! And forest you not have affending me :) I'm glad you said what you see and feel. That's why I also describe a little about what my pictures. It makes people think more about what they see and do not have to wait for me to say what to think. Because each person sees things differently.
And I can not say anything about the film photography, because I have not used it yet, I am hoping I'll get the chance soon...very soon. I like Xpan... this film camera is very cool :)
I used to love to shoot with Xpan. It has such a rawness to the quality of the film. If you haven't I would try to read some of Ansel Adams books on photography. He was the master of the art and that still holds true today. His visions were ones that only can be told by the master themselves. There is also a documentary about him, but I think his writing on photography is something that will last forever in the photo world.
Can't wait to see more of you stuff.
I've seen her documentary, and looked at it a few times, But what do you think about him? Vivian Maier. I like her pictures very much... very cool street photography.
I have to say I don't know her work. Street photography was never my thing. But looking at her work, she was very talented. If I could only go back in time and taking those kinds of photos would be amazing.
I will have to look at more of her work, thanks for the recommendation.
You are welcome :) And Big thing is that she did not see own work.. and this makes this very big.. That what I think :)