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Creating vs Taking Photographs

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Creating vs Taking Photographs

When begining photographers start out, they head out to "take" photographs. The camera enthusiast points their new camera at things and snaps a photograph of a thing. They create an endless catalog of things.

"I saw a bird. Here it is."
"I saw a flower. Here it is."
"I went on vacation - see here is the proof."

Their work never gets beyond this simple documentary process of pointing a camera and pushing the shutter button. Some never make it to the next level.

What's the next level in photography? Creating art. Crafting a photograph as a work of art. Capturing a feeling, a mood, a story. Going beyond a physical object and exploring themes, emotion, envoking memories.

Creating a photograph mean thinking it through before the photograph is take. Thinking about the composition, the lighting and what you are trying to say with the photograph. A created photograph might take days, weeks, months or years before it's created. A taken photograph is simply seen and taken. Stolen if you will rather than made.