PHOTOGRAPHY AND YOUR SENSES

What makes a good photo? What makes a photo standout from the millions of them already floating on the web? Well my philosophy is that anything you see, smell, taste, feel, and hear is worth a photograph and what makes it good is "YOU" (me). For example I shoot my photographs from different angles not just from a standing position and straight on, I try to shoot my photos in different positions, in one knee, laying on my stomach, leaning on something or somebody (usually a family member lol) but I always take about 10 to 15 photos of the same subject then go over the results on my computer and pick the "keepers."

 Like the following photo, I was outside my brother's house and saw some red sneakers in the trash which was a perfect subject. Title "Piece of Trash"
(SEE)

How about this following one, that while in my kitchen I got a brief whiff of citrus (maybe it was the lingering pleasant odor of the lemons that I used earlier to make some lemonade). So I got one of them decided to put a coat and a hat on and just take a photo (actually I took several) Titled it "Disregard"

(SMELL)

I do not smoke but I had always wondered how a cigarette or a cigar tastes, what is the after taste or how does the smoke feel in your mouth. It's so easy to just go ask my sister or my brother for a cigarette (they both smoke) but I decided not to try one so I took my camera out and took a photo of my sister smoking. Title "Smoking in the Dark"

(TASTE)

                                         

So I live in Dallas Texas and our Summers are scorching hot, scorching hot (you get my point on "scorching" hot). It was a Saturday evening middle of August and not wanting to go out to go take some photographs for the fear of melting into the pavement with the 110 degree day we were having, but got inspiration from my brand new DSLR I bought earlier that week and decided to go out there anyway. I was feeling the sun burning every single one of my pores but I put that camera on my tripod and shot this one. Title "We Are So Much Alike" 

(FEEL)

Traffic in Dallas! Rush Hour is a beast,  if you are lucky you will get home in about an hour or two depending where you live and how you drive (road rage guilty). Noisy is an understatement for rush hour is just so annoying more when you suffer from migraines like I do. So one night I decided to go to the same freeway (highway 75) where I spend hours and had said so many bad words and flipped so many people and try to figure out a nice photo for the highway that had giving me white hairs (so dramatic) but is true. I wanted for "noise" to be heard through my photograph and this is the result. Title  "Streaks of Zoom"

(Hear)

Photography and my senses "you" make a photograph stand out all you have to do is see, smell, taste, feel, and hear and you will create what you imagination envisions. 

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