February 1, 2007
Things My Mother Taught Me About Photography
My mother was one of those people who took lots of pictures and cared about what she was shooting. She actually would submit her pictures to contests and win prizes. The first thing she said to me about taking pictures was “watch your background”. Told more than once, I daresay – like many other thing that were hounded into my thick skull. You might say, “Watch your background – Well of course!! Who wouldn't?” Yeah,
Dear Martin
Nice to see teh picture of Jeannette and read your little story.
Having known your mother for quite some years I must agree that she really carred taking good pictures. And I agree that many pictures (specially of my own) are very poor because of the background. The problem is that most good pictures need both af foreground and a background and of course you are more in contact with the foreground. I must also say that the principle of looking at the background could quite often be a nuisance to those people your mother wanted to photograph. Normally it is not possible to remove the background so the only possibility is to move the foreground (the persons) around so they were in front of a proper background. You probably know yourself how difficult it is to move 3-4 persons around for taking “just a picture”