Things My Mother Taught Me About Photography

My mother was one of those people who took lots of pictures and cared about what she was shooting. She actually would submit her pictures to contests and win prizes. The first thing she said to me about taking pictures was watch your background. Told more than once, I daresay like many other thing that were hounded into my thick skull. You might say, Watch your background Well of course!! Who wouldn\'t? Yeah, I know, but one needs to look further see what resulted from that simple command.

When you are watching the background, hopefully you are really looking at the whole picture. That\'s what this imperative got me to doing: looking. Instead of just pointing away willy nilly with the camera, even as a youngster I tended to slow down and look. This fared me well later in life when I was in India visiting my father. You can see photos of that India trip here. I\'ll tell you more about how and why later.

Even as a child the photos had fewer and fewer clotheslines and spires sticking out the tops of people heads. Not only that, with the simple drill of looking the composition naturally became more attractive.

Nor did it hurt that my siblings and I had use of a camera that used 2 film. We really had no idea of how fortunate we were. I never really notice what others were using so didn\'t know what was being generally used back then.

So the next time you pick up a camera and rush out to take pictures of the cousins from Nebraska , slow down a bit and look tell me if you can see what the camera sees.

Martin Jones enjoys photography and people. You can see his photo blog at Photo Photo and many of his photos at Martin Glyn Jones Fine Art Photography

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