Don’t Take Pictures With Your Head, Take Them with Your Heart.

If you don’t feel anything when taking a picture — why the viewer should?

© Tim Gallo.

My Master used to say — if the image is already made in your mind before you hit that shutter button — what’s the use in taking a picture?

What he meant is — don’t take pictures with just your mind. The mind is always in a state of analyzing, judging, comparing one with another. It’s a great tool that does not fit for feeling and expressing feelings. But, most of the time, feelings/emotions is what we want to invoke from a picture. That is where the heart comes into play. If you don’t feel anything when taking a picture — why the viewer should? (though there is no way to connect with everybody)

You see, the more you judge and analyze — the easier for you to fall in a trap of obvious. “Safety net” — “a state of known” is where mind wants to go. The mind demands understanding, some kind of explanation. It’s often the main reason we produce mediocre pictures — cause their greatness is already explained in our minds. But great art is usually not an answer — it is an invitation to feel and contemplate on something.

Great art invites you to find your own answer. An answer that is only discovered in the heart.