I've only been a photographer for two weeks, but I can already say that this quote is quite applicable to my experience so far. It's interesting that it is always the photos that I don't think will be very effective as an image that turn out to be the most effective. And along the same line, what I think I'm taking a picture of may appear as something completely different when I see the image later, or in black and white. For instance, a clear image of my fish, when focused incorrectly, becomes an impressionistic abstract, evoking more emotion than the original intent.
And I suppose this extends to the purposeful manipulation of images--an image from a camera is always taken from something real, something observed in the world, but the photographer, through the manipulation of light, angle, focus, shutter speed, and aperture, can abstract the image, and make it entirely different. Nothing is what it appears to be, when in the hands of a photographer. This is where the "art" comes in in the art of photography--not merely recording an image, but abstracting that image to a certain end.
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