"What I saw in the field"
This is one of the first things I read when I rekindled my interest in photography a little over 3 years ago. Part of the creative process of an artist/photographer is to know how to use the medium to represent what one sees at the moment when the image was created... or something like that... and I have had others include this phrase in response to my comments to images here in this forum... so I know this concept is used by users here.
I do not know exactly what this phrase means and I suspect that its meaning or interpretation is not the same for everyone.
Photography has made me pay better attention to how I see... how I use my eyes to see general and specifics and how focusing on an object using my eyes is accomplished by what seems a requirement to eliminate the processing of all other information that is not part of the specific focus a a specific moment. And this type of "eye-brain focusing"can shift quickly. Our eyes also work that way when examining an image on the screen and in print. I am not sure I ever know what I saw when I press the shutter because I am busy looking at dials and readings, focusing points, tracking subject movement and position through the viewfinder, and trying to compose... not knowing the exact DOF that will result, the boken , etc...all while pressing the shutter... Is the phrase "to represent what I saw in the field" intended to give the photographer artistic freedom or to limit PP of an image... or either o both?
When choosing and developing images, this phrase comes to my mind... and I wonder what others think about this or if it has been discussed before...
thanks!