black & white photography with simone bacci: lessons learned
even though the sound of it is like all things falling through chaos and landing perfectly in order.
photos in florence are interesting because they have to be the thing that changes, since everything else here always stays the same. it assists in the irony of discovering a place you do not know.
i am envious at light for the clarity with which it speaks to paper. i would like to be able to communicate what is there with as much accuracy as the sun can through an image.
taking photos is taking decisions.
film slows you down. its not a bad thing. and it only asks one thing of you, to be exposed to the right amount of light.
it is not something that makes you think, but react. react using other parts of your being without your rational mind. your photos are a way people can know you.
you will discover something that you own but maybe do not know. maybe you are scared of how wide you are. just because you have to find it with a certain frame of mind does not mean its unnatural.
train yourself when you feel, to grasp the feeling. you can't know how to print the image if you don't know how you felt when you captured it. we are more sensitive than the film we expose.
shooting landscape is hard because there is land, a line, then sky. begin with land so you can understand only that. then move on to sky.
looking at a person and asking them for a photo puts a soul into their eyes.
pretend the only way you can talk is through your picture.
"having dark room for me, like having right arm. without it, i die" -simone.
shoot all the time. rolls and rolls.
its like reading poetry over and over until you finally begin to pronounce the words right.
my midterm grade: "make more room for photo shooting. concentrate on finding. practice a lot. be prolific."
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