Like the subjects, the background is also an important in the photographs. Yes, whether you like it or not you always shoot a picture with a background. May be you can eliminate or change it by using an image editing software! But it is impossible to shoot only the main subject without a background. At the same time, just by moving or shifting your camera slightly to your left or right you can change the effect of the background in your picture.
In photography, the background plays a vital role and used for ‘story telling’. The background needs to be definitely interesting but not distracting. If not handled carefully, background could do more harm than good for a fine subject. This is because, when you see, your eyes see very selectively (many time we don’t even care about the background) but in a photograph, it is seen because the camera sees the subject and the background alike (the camera doesn’t see selectively).
Learning to understand about the ‘background’ in photography is something similar to learning to understand the ‘parking rules’ before one learns driving..!
Experienced photographers are very careful about the choice of backgrounds because the background does a lot of magic in photography.
A perfect scan on the background every time will help to get a meaningful image on the digital sensor.
Photography appears to be a simple matter, but it demands powers of concentration combined with mental enthusiasm and discipline - Henri Cartier-Bresson
Learning to understand about the ‘background’ in photography is something similar to learning to understand the ‘parking rules’ before one learns driving..!
Experienced photographers are very careful about the choice of backgrounds because the background does a lot of magic in photography.
A perfect scan on the background every time will help to get a meaningful image on the digital sensor.
Highly informative piece. Thanks.
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