In this 20 minutes video, the famous fashion & fine arts photographer Albert Watson outlines what he feels helped to make him a photography icon. This could help new photographers, who intend to create art, get a good understanding how various aspects of one’s evolution process helps to solidify their talents.
Most of the successful creators depend on their foundational learning of art, graphics, cinematography and theater. They build on these basic foundations through a well managed combination of experience and experiments. This leads to just not a one-time creation but a long term sustainable and scalable art products.
In his message directed to new artists & photographers, Watson says whats important to succeed and replicate that success is to focus on planning the shoot very well. Being able to work on the gist of the concept and building the product around that. Being able to feel the picture in the mind’s eye and not leave it to be fixed subsequently.
The soul of the picture has to be when the photographer presses the shutter. Not as an after thought to be fixed up later in software.
Albert Watson
It is nice to hear how a successful commercial & fine arts photographer has used the technological advances with a lot of the software like Adobe to still use it to enhance his final product and neither using them as an after thought or leaving a half baked job of planning & shooting to be made up in software later on in the process.