{"id":243,"date":"2009-06-27T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2009-06-27T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T09:25:26","slug":"speaking-softly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/speaking-softly\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Softly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photography is an amazing medium to work in.\u00a0 It takes planning.\u00a0 Choosing a location is always a gamble.\u00a0 Conditions change every moment.\u00a0 The light, the very thing that is worked with, is a living thing that interacts with everything it touches, and yet you can’t touch it, hear it, smell it or taste it and for that matter you can’t see it\u00a0either until it interacts with something.\u00a0 I enjoy the light.\u00a0 I chase after it as often as I can.\u00a0 Using a big camera, like the 4×5, takes a considerable amount of work.\u00a0 It’s fairly heavy and schlepping it around can be a job.\u00a0 It is a slow camera to use.\u00a0 It takes time to set it up, compose with it, focus it and even photographing with it as shutter times are usually on the slow end requiring a tripod.\u00a0 Once it is setup, you have an investment in time involved\u00a0that you want to capitalize on so you sit there and wait for the event you came to capture and hope it was all worth it.\u00a0 It is very different than a digital camera or even a smaller format film camera.<\/p>\n

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Russian Ridge<\/p><\/div>\n

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With that big camera, you wait for the light to come to you rather than you trying to capture the light as it elusively slips by.\u00a0 Smaller cameras on the other hand allow mobility and spontaneity.\u00a0 They allow one to capture that decisive moment before it slips away.\u00a0 And I think that is what has made small camera photography so popular and special, it allows us to capture that “Kodak Moment”.\u00a0 Even though some of the best photographs made by some of the best photographers in the world were done with a 4×5, there is no denying the versatility and popularity of the small camera.<\/p>\n

As I waited that evening for the new crescent moon <\/a>to appear, I was glad to have a digital camera with me as well.\u00a0 It not only allowed me to capture and share the new moon in the previous post<\/a>\u00a0the same night, but also allowed me to capture the subtleties of light that played in the fog mixing into the coastal mountains.<\/p>\n

\"Softly<\/a>

Softly Spoken<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes large format photography is wonderful and becoming more unique.\u00a0 It still allows the most stunning prints to be made.\u00a0 It slows the photographer down in the whole process and, by necessity, forces the photographer to become part of the scene before it is captured.\u00a0 But with both formats on hand, while waiting for the moment to trip the 4×5 shutter, the smaller format allows me to capture everything that is going on around me.\u00a0 Do the smaller images compare\u00a0in quality\u00a0delivered from the 4×5?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 But none the less, words spoken softly can still have more impact than saying nothing at all.\u00a0 And when what you say is said with light, you’d better have a way to say it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photography is an amazing medium to work in.\u00a0 It takes planning.\u00a0 Choosing a location is always a gamble.\u00a0 Conditions change every moment.\u00a0 The light, the very thing that is worked with, is a living thing that interacts with everything it touches, and yet you can’t touch it, hear it, smell it or taste it and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[149,150,97,58,50,49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}