Saturday, August 28, 2010

'FORM' IN PHOTOGRAPHY


A PHOTOGRAPH IS A MULTIPLE ASSEMBLY OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS FOUND IN THE OBJECTS AROUND. SINCE WE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO SEE THEM REGULARLY, WE DO NOT FEEL THE IMPRESSION THEY CAN CREATE, WHEN SHOT THROUGH A CAMERA. Thus it look rather amazing when the photographs come before us on the print form. However, it has become an old part of history. Our craze is now the latest developed digital photography. Digital photography too represents 'forms' in nature when shot thru camera.
2. In other words every object consists of a 'form' bound by lines. The forms can be regular or irregular, angular, geometrical, non-geometrical, in flow or in the nature of 'curve'. They all come in the category of mixed and intermediate forms. Basically a photographer is interested in the beauty of these forms and not directly in the objects, before photographying.
3. It is a common experience that to someone this form attracts more and to other fellow, other form has more attraction. Why? If analysed clearly, there we find rhythm...that manifests in many ways in nature and in life e.g. the curving tips of creepers, the rhythmic lines of sea waves, the petal arrangement of roses, in home the sweeping curves or wavy margins of dishes and vases. Wonderful outline the fish has with its forked tail, the distinct forms of a melting wax from a candle., and innumeral examples we come across. However, important thing is what we capture in our cameras. These forms are a part of our life but we recognise them distinctly when shot on the sensor and interpreted in full form in the form of images in computers, and/or in prints.

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