Light and shadows

[WPCentral Question]

What do you really photographing? The subject or the light?

 

[belodion]

That is an interesting philosophical question. In photography, some of the light reflected by the subject is refracted by the lens onto a light-sensitive surface, which makes some sort of record, which, when viewed in one way or another, gives the viewer the impression of looking at a more-or-less accurate two-dimensional small-scale representation of the subject. But of course, when you photograph something, you are only recording light from a part of it....not the back of it or the inside. Nor do you see the parts of that subject lying in the past or the future, but only its present appearance. So I guess that photography is about light rather than subject....or perhaps, light is always the true subject.

Posted via Windows Phone Central App