Geometry Time

[hudsong]

Hi all,

I recently started a series on my blog, Geometry Time, which is about exploring effective visual work.

The first section is about photography, so I figured some of the crowd that hangs out around here might be interested in reading it.


Here's a snippet —

To take photographs is to put one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.
One shouldn't think about it, but the basis is geometry. Intuitively, I know how it sits. But that's all I can say.
It's the physical rhythm — 1.618, 3.1416, the golden number.. we know how it sits. A compass will tell you, but it's in the eye.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I could end this Geometry Time with the above quote, which summarizes my thoughts on photography.

This idea, however, deserves more time. Bresson gets at the core of what it takes to make an effective/affective photograph, but leaves out a more complete explanation. Where can you find the heart in a photo, or the head? It's too changeable and ambiguous to say, precisely. Those decisions are for the photographer to attempt to capture, and for the viewer to decide if it worked.

Continue reading....