Monday, April 5, 2010

Previsualization


Happy Easter! Yes, I know I am a bit late with this. But I have a good excuse... I went to photograph this Easter Lilly on Easter night, and realized the lighting was not what I had visualized. "Previsualization" is a term I learned from Minor White (and the term may have been coined by Ansel Adams, a contemporary of Minor's.) It is the act of imagining what the final photograph will look like, while you are looking through the viewfinder. I had a clear vision of how I wanted this blossom to look. So I wanted until this morning to get the "explosion" of light around the blossom, coming from the dining room window. It matched my imagining perfectly.

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