"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography, all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved,” Ansel Adams. I love this quote, because it applies to me in all areas of my life. I see light as it plays upon objects and vistas, as a gift from the universe. It is this light that stimulates my creative energy, and brings peace to the moment.
"Photography is Light", a simple term I use in the teaching of photography.
The camera is the only device that can stop and hold time for eternity. It's only that moment in which light will play upon the subject, which will never be the same again. That moment captured will be unique, because it can never be duplicated, and becomes your signature.
You will learn about light, identify good and bad light and the effects light has on color. You will learn that sometimes it's not the beauty you are capturing, but rather the detail, the leaf rather than the tree, or the door rather than the building. Defining you subject through focus and depth of field, giving perspective, and emphasis to your subject.