Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >Ted Grant >This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > > I too have been a professional for many years, first published in 1955, and I concur with all Ted says about light. All photography can be reduced to elements of shape/form (design), tonal value ( white-black or color) and light (relationship of shadows to highlights). This of course discounts concerns of content; however, the ideas surrounding content are a complete set of other discussions. One assumes that technical issues of focus and exposure are understood and practiced. I have always told students and people at short courses I've led that; simply without light you can not create a photograph. Try it, even with a Noctilux, no light, no photograph. Mananging the light and understanding how to use it is, IMHO, the most significant element in creating a photograph. This also comes back to my last contribution to this list that "exixting light" is whatever you can make exist in any give situation. Steven Alexander