Robert Doisneau, cumple hoy 100 años

Google hace conmemoración al fotógrafo en su Doodle del día

“I don't photograph life as it is,” Doisneau famously said, “but life as I would like it to be.”

http://www.missmoss.co.za/2011/11/22/bicycle-portraits-part-iii/

5:30 pm

Esta luz es la que hace mis días grises
mas coloridos...

KAFKA WORDS -interesting excersice

These words were written by Franz Kafka. I read them and looked around.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

PROJECT: WORDS BECOME IMAGES

NATURAL ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE

When Robin Cameron submitted these words, she said that the inspiration was “found when I was researching the difference between fate and destiny.”

For this image I decided to dig through my archives and go back to one of the first

photographs I remember taking that felt truly poignant. It’s an image I took when I was 17. I traveled with someone very close to have him admitted to a mental institution. This image of the ashtray at the entrance of the facility is the only image from that trip that is permanently stuck in my head after all these years. 11 years later, this person is stable and getting married soon. Fate and destiny are two very different things, and for this person understanding the difference has been a lifelong struggle.

I’ve been thinking a lot about why I love photography so much lately and what creates meaning in a photograph. It is the humility of the act of making a picture that has always intrigued me: the idea that taking a photograph of a detail so easily overlooked can carry the weight of a life-changing experience. Does the meaning carry through in the photograph? I’m not certain that it does, yet it holds within it a reminder that life is a fragile and tempestuous thing that resists being controlled. Photography remains for me a humble act of anthropology — an interpretation of what we see and experience and a melding together of symbols to create a language entirely different from that of written words.

Josef Koudelka - El eterno emigrante

"Muchas de mis fotografía las hago sin mirar el objetivo, es como si no existiera la cámara y solo mi cerebro y mis ojos quisieran plasmar la imagen que estoy apreciando, pero llega un momento en que sin darme cuenta mi dedo realiza el disparo. Un acto sumamente mecánico pero lleno de intensidad"

COMPOSICIÓN DEL CUADRO

• Regla de tercios
• Relación sujeto - fondo
• Uso de diagonales (viaje visual)
• Relación claro-oscuro
• Llenar el cuadro
• Cuidar las esquinas