{"id":1022,"date":"2013-10-18T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:41:17","slug":"vague-but-specific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/2013\/10\/18\/vague-but-specific\/","title":{"rendered":"Vague but Specific"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I stole the title of this post from a Facebook friend who periodically posts humorous quotes she hears during her day. I smiled initially, but then, as I thought about it a bit, I realized in photography at least, you can be both. In fact I think some of the best images out there have vital elements to the photograph that aren’t actually visible, but implied.<\/p>\n

For example there is Alfred Eisenstaedt’s\u00a0classic image of the V-J Day kiss<\/a> on Times Square. What is present in the image is not what is important, but the emotions that it holds: celebration, relief, love. Photography has great potential to portray these implied values. And it is these elements, hidden from the frame, and perhaps impossible to photograph, that make an image successful.<\/p>\n

The image above of the fog bank over the hillside can be read a couple of ways. Is it rolling in, threatening? Or retreating in the face of the growing sun, providing a sense of relief? The reality doesn’t matter so much as to how it resonates with the viewer. The important thing is that there is something implied, a change occuring, a story is playing out.<\/p>\n

Think about your images as you make them, is a story being told, is there something implied in the image, and if so, how do you emphasize that? In other words, be vague, but specific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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