Perspective
I'm a macro shooter. I like to get up close and personal with my subject... every person, rock and tree I've ever shot can tell you this. If you doubt me at all, take a look at my post of the aftermath of December's fires. I think the textures, the details, make the subject. You can never get to close (I regularly bump my 10.5 mm fisheye on my subjects trying to get juuust a fraction of an inch closer), you can never capture enough colour, depth and texture.
But sometimes, this is to my detriment. This morning, I hiked out early to shoot a place I'd visited a few days ago. I found interesting subject after interesting subject... through my macro shooting. Please excuse the unprocessed images below. They forgot to bring any editing software with them...
Here's the big picture problem, where my perspective needs a little tweaking. I stepped back after TWENTY MINUTES of shooting (twenty minutes... 125 photos... do you understand how much that is?) this ONE subject... only to learn something entirely new about it.
This is the shot I want. The beauty of the big picture. The whole thing. Those other photos mean nothing. This means everything. They are pretty and interesting. This is glorious. How much more beautiful would those first photos have been if I had first recognised what I was shooting, if I had taken a moment to step back and breathe in the whole thing... not just the patina on the metal, not just the interesting shape of the tip of the protruding bar, not just the way I could focus on parts of the misshapen head? What if, from the start, I had seen the beauty of the cross in my subject? What if my perspective had been a little different?
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