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    Zen of Photography: Introducing Light
    Zen of Photography: Introducing Light
    Zen of Photography: Introducing Light
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    Zen of Photography: Introducing Light

    By Brian Ross

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    Zen of Photography Introducing Light presents the fundamentals of creative photography as an unfoldment, a revelation. Each section considers a unique facet of the creative photographic process and gives you an opportunity to develop your own unique photography expression.

    Offering a blend of poetry, philosophy, and technique, Ross shares how the art of photography is created by the refinement of the photographer’s eye. The photographer’s eye processes and contemplates a variety of creative lenses of mind, focusing on subtle details in microseconds, being in the zone, and having a single-mindedness meditation. He shows how each element of the creative photographic process must be considered to enlighten and refine your photographic sensibilities: the artist, the camera, the light, the time, the place, the dynamics of visual grammar and composition, the photograph as a visual communication, and the viewers’ experience of the image.

    Presenting an inspiring, informative, and beautiful collection of thoughts, images, and techniques of photography, integrating poetry, Zen philosophy, insights, and instruction, Zen of Photography Introducing Light inspires you to refine your photographer’s eye and develop your creative photography process to create great images.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 18, 2019
    ISBN9781532062261
    Zen of Photography: Introducing Light
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    Brian Ross

    I was born in 1928 in Bethehem, South Africa, and was schooled at St Henry's in Durban. I attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown from 1945 to mid year 1946. Then having been accepted by Oxford University, I sailed through Suez on a converted troopship full of young people going to study in Europe. At Oxford University I lived in Worcester College for two years before moving into digs with friends. I then studied retailing and textiles in London, visiting cotton and woollen mills in Manchester and other northern England cities. During this period I was able to visit western Euopean countries as the Cold War settled in. I made many friends in Scandinavia and the Netherlands, even though many Dutch mocked my "kinder taal" of Afrikaans! In 1951 I journeyed home by boat from Naples to Alexandria and then by train, bus and paddle steamer up the Nile, ever southwards to my home in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. I worked for the family business established by my grandfather, George Walter Ross. I unfortunately did not see much of him but my Campbell grandparents were much closer and I loved them dearly. To me the words "oupa" always had a ring of kindness to it. I married and had many children, enjoying playing with them and telling stories I made up depending on what sort of tale they seemed to like. When my wife of 46 years died the three daughters who were now living in Australia invited me to move abroad, to Western Australia, which I did in 2005. My three daughters had to go on with their busy lives, coping with families which gave me time to continue with the research and writing of Boer War books that I'd been doing since 2001. I was fortunate enough to meet an Australian woman Anne, who had a grown family. There was a happy wedding with many children and grandchildren from both sides in attendance. Reared in country Western Australia Anne stands no nonsense and speaks her mind on many committees where she is sometimes treasurer of the outfit. I enjoy a skilled cook who is a voracious reader. How lucky I have been!

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      Book preview

      Zen of Photography - Brian Ross

      ZEN OF PHOTOGRAPHY

      INTRODUCING LIGHT

      Copyright © 2019 Brian Ross.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      Light

      Our Experience of Light

      Beauty Is an Expression of the Divine

      Photography

      The Art of Writing with Light

      Definition of Photography

      Considerations of Photography as Fine Art

      Photograph

      The Image

      Qualities of Expression and Visual Communication

      Photography Is a Dynamic Communication

      Expressiveness of an Image

      Visual Communication Is Distinct from Perception in Language

      Contrast

      Tones

      Qualities of Light

      World as a Canvas for Light

      Composition

      Dynamic Elements within a Frame

      Dynamics of an Image

      Elements of Composition

      Composing Images

      Visual Grammar

      Kandinsky and Bauhaus

      Form versus Function

      Point

      Line

      Content of the Image

      Contents of the Frame

      Combination of Elements

      Composition within the Frame

      Competing Influences

      Weights

      Balance

      Symmetry

      Patterns

      Visual Rhythms and Melodies

      Visual Poem

      Camera

      Instrument to Regulate Light

      Journey of Light as It Enters the Camera

      Aperture

      Shutter

      ISO/Sensitivity Settings

      Present Moment

      Viewer

      Viewing Experience of an Image

      Viewer’s Eye

      Photography as Visual Communication

      Viewer’s Experience

      Viewing the Quadrants of the Frame

      Artist’s Intent for Expression

      What Effect Does the Image Have on the Viewer?

      Photographer

      Artist Cultivating Self-Expression

      Perspectives

      Never Take Pictures

      Photography Is a Giving Rather Than a Taking

      Unique Perspective = Unique Self-Expression

      What Is the Point?

      Photography Is a Gift

      Photographer’s Eye

      The Photographer as the Artist

      Photographer as the Author

      Self-Awareness in a Moment

      Photographer as a Composer of Images

      Photographer as Artist in the Process of Self-Expression

      Cultivating Discernment

      Awareness and Intent

      Love and Enlightenment

      Time

      Journey of Light from the Sun

      Spinning Planet Temporal, Ever Changing

      Moment in Time at 1/500 of a Second

      Photograph as Time Machine

      Visual Expression of Time

      Unique Moment in Time

      Place

      Contours of the Canvas

      Oneness

      Macro and Micro Perspectives

      Elements: Earth, Air, Water, and Fire

      Harmony of the Moment: Combination of Elements in Balance

      Interplay with Natural Light

      Patterns Created by Natural Shapes

      Journey of a Photograph

      Soul of a Place

      Creative Photographic Process

      Creative Fine Art Photographic Process

      Considering Qualities of Light

      Qualities of Light

      Visual Grammar

      Composition

      Photography as a Visual Meditation

      Cultivating the Garden by Experimentation

      Develop Your Unique Expression

      What Makes Your Body of Work Unique?

      Shoot So Much It Becomes a Natural Process

      Express the Light

      Portraiture

      Laughter of Heart

      Bringing Out Inner Light

      The Body Is a Canvas for Light

      Photographing Culture

      Character of Place

      What Is an Authentic Experience of a Place?

      Presence and Awareness

      Unity and Oneness

      Serendipity

      Synchronizing all the above

      Pursuit of Beauty

      Reflections of Divine Light

      Beauty is an Expression of the Divine

      Joy

      About the Author

      Bibliography

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      During my first walk in the forest, I felt at home among the trees.

      A kuleana, in Hawaiian, means an honored responsibility, both an obligation and a privilege. My kuleana herein is to introduce the light. It’s a phrase I first heard over a transistor radio, translated from Tibetan, which the Dalai Lama spoke at his temple in Dharamsala, India. He was talking about cultivating bodhicitta, or compassion, and said, We must introduce the light, to eliminate the darkness. A decade later, I offer these words as my meditation on photography, the art of writing with light.

      Thirty years ago, I found an essay by Wassily Kandinsky from his Bauhaus years (1920s) entitled Point and Line to Plane. It expressed his tenets of visual grammar. For me, the revelations felt like being propelled into hyperspace. It considered

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