February 25, 2007

It doesn’t mean anything at all


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Originally uploaded by benghazii.
William Eggleston once took his photos by not looking into the viewfinder, he sort of lift the camera in any possible angles/directions, and snap, snap, snap. It might be a silly thing to do, or if you are bored by regular/well-composed shots that later become banal, no matter how much effort you have tried in rendition and interpretation. What comes in the end is it doesn't mean anything at all. Surely this method does create views which normally we pay less attention to, as well the results could be interesting somehow.
Might be a good way to escape from picture taking boredom, perhaps it is taking a picture by not taking a picture, howtever you define the process of taking a picture.
That is Eggleston though, and he had experimented it through films.
Not very original, I did play with it later this evening, I shake my camera agitatedly up and down, left to right, and realised that it is much harder to press the shutter on a stupid digital camera when not focused at all, not to mention I want to use flash simultaneously.
I had fun playing with it, and the passerby probably thought that I was retarded.
it doesn’t mean anything at all, I think this title defines the set perfectly, nothing really matters really.

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