Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.
Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.