geometry, perspective, light, optics, all this are fields that come from science. With digital photography it's even more accurate.
But of course it makes better and easier quality pictures, even with knowing nothing you can rely on the camera for light exposure, focus, sensitivity, aperture...
But when looking to pictures that were taken with manual exposure, black and white film a long time ago, i cannot stop thinking we often miss the goal nowadays. because pictures we take forget to transcend reality.
It's like painting an apple so close to the real apple that it does not make us feel anything. That's why painters made a revolution...
We have to make our own. I wish i could shot an apple that would look like so far than an apple, that it would evocate... new york. Up to know i am ...
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