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Monday, June 1, 2009

LESSON 2: The role of a camera...

Philosophy is one thing.. it is the Why... but without a How, life would be hard...

We hopefully agree that we want to capture a singular moment into a little piece of paper or a image on a screen somewhere... there are the following things that need to happen...

A scene.. light bounces off that scene and enters your lens... the lens focuses the light onto the film plane through a little opening or an aperture.. you see the moment and click.... a little shutter opens and the film behind the shutter captures the light using some chemistry or electronics.. as the case might be... and if you happen to click at the right thing at exactly the right moment.. you are lucky enough to capture the emotion you wanted...

The camera is then doing the following things for you:
1. Framing precisely what and only what caused the 'Oh' moment...
2. Focussing on precisely what caused the 'Oh' moment...
3. Allowing a certain amount of light in
4. Capturing the light on a film or array...

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