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Seeing through the Lens Teaching the Camera to See.....

But the camara is not the human eye and it is not ate images that are both emotionally powerful and
connected to the human brain. It sees exactly what which look much the human eyes would have seen
is in front of it and nothing more. It cannot make the same scene, then it is up to us to understand
a judgement call. It can’t fill in the blanks. It can’t how the camera sees the world.
add detail to a floor that is so bright it is blown out. Remember, emotion is a function of color, contrast,
Seeing through the lens is teaching the camera to detail, texture, and composition. Composition is
see the world as we do. drive n not by symmetry or balance but by the
So, how does that happen? How can we teach the experience of space and time - how ob-
camera to see the world as we do? First, we be- jects related to each other and to me.
gin by understanding how the camera The more profound that experience,
sees the world. Second, we use that “The world does not the more powerful an image.
information to our advantage so passively impose itself Some of our interpretation of the
that are true to our experience of the on our mind. Rather it brain looks for “visual clues” from
world comes from experience. The
that we can change not only how the
has to be actively in-
camera sees the world, but also how
we use the camera to create images
which to build an image of the
does not learn from experience. It can’t terpreted” - Bruce Hood ry, built into the brain’s neural net-
world. Those visual clues are, at
world.
least according to present theo-
We must also remember that the camera
work. One philosopher, Kant, called these
alter its perception of the world the way clues Transcendental Categories. While Kant be-
we can. What it sees is what it sees. It is ve ry lieved that these categories “matched” structures
literal in its view of the world. So, if we are to cre- in the world, that is a hypothesis not shared by ev-
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