How art teaches us to be critical

One of the most important skill that make a good photographer is the ability to see the light. You may think that seeing the light is an easy thing, but there's a difference between seeing and noticing.

If we are not blind, God forbid, light is the basis of our life experience. All we see is forms of light. The sense of sight is the most persuasive sense. We usually exchange between the truth and what we see. For that reason, we may take the light itself, for granted.

The camera don't get impressed by the light as we do. It don't get the 'wow effect'; it emotion don't get involved. The camera only measures the light and writes it down.

As a photographer I need to watch the light from the perspective of the camera, I need to notice to myself - how much light there is, from what direction it comes, what it quality and color, does the light go directly into the lens and dazzle it?

Like a lot of things - it a matter of practice. You need to get your brain used to that perspective. Not to rush to judge what you see in the natural way of your mind, but ask the question: What am I see, and why it looks like that.

An artist point of view is often a critical one. An artist need to rebuild the environment around him and offer it to the audience. I found the art as an opportunity to get up from the reality and look upon it as just an offer, a possibility. We are free to interpret what we see, and offer an alternative.

Have a happy day!