One of the things that I love most about photography is that you can give 10 people a camera and an object and no two pictures of it will come out the same. This fascinates me...and the more I learn about photography, the more I love the ways in which we can use our own "lenses" to show life, people, the earth, buildings, etc.
I've recently hired a photographer, whose work I am enamored with, to teach me the technical aspects of photography, i.e. f stops, shutter speeds, white lighting, d lighting and the like.
However, what I'm trying to teach myself is how to find my own "lens"...the view of the world that I give that distinctly makes a photograph a "Tiffany Allen" photograph.
Frequently "lenses" are not that recognizable....and I find, for me...that there are few exceptions to this in the photographic world.
Anson Adams does this well. His is a recognizable "lens" for sure. Helmut Newton has a famous "lens" for fashion...Annie Liebovitz a famous "lens" for portraits...
mine? Well...I haven't exactly figured out the specs of my "lens" yet...but I know one thing for sure....it will be abstractly pointed at a building. I absolutely want to become a well known (heck I can say "famous" can't I?) architectural photographer. I just can't get enough buildings...their details, their surroundings, their context, their use, their shadows, their art, their place in the world...in nature....in our lives.
Here are a few of my new favorites...don't pick too hard on the skies (I'm still learning how to fix a "boring sky" in Photoshop) but I'm enjoying SO much the process of learning my lens.
