Re: MORE ABOUT MY THOUGHTS ABOUT LIGHT AND COMPOSITION

[Steve Shapiro <sgshiya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good light helps, but it is not everything. Light is overrated, although I
know, you can't shoot in total darkness.

Adri

I agree, Adri; and I add that it's not the light surrounding your vision but
the light you capture within the composition.

What makes a Panorama anydifferent than a 6X6 square image, or full frame
35mm 8X10 at 7 3/4 X 10?

It's the light within the composition, called by ancient (1500's and before)
master painters, "The negative Space."

Within the composition, the alignment of shapes of understood sitometry
makes or breaks your photograph.  In my pans, I love shooting into the light
on one end and with my back to the light from the other.  While, the lighter
exposure catches the viewer's attention, they usuallyh 'pan' the whole shot
to see what I wanted to show.  That's what I meant by 'catching the light'
not shooting on a sunny day and wondering what to shoot next sunny day
during the fog or rain.

I'm out there in the rain thinking, 'None of the other photographers do
htis, I've got the ONLY photos of this rainey day.'  It happened to be the
rainstorm that begain our 100 years flood.Not since 1894 did this kind of
rain begin.  Then, on the last day of Winter, and first day of Spring I shot
the both days and got the last drops, too of this cataclismic storm.  Light?
It was in each and every rain drop, recorded on my film.

Steve