The simplest way to explain to someone why people enjoy taking photographs is that photographs capture a fleeting moment of time. Whether a portrait, a photograph of something in movement or a passing emotion, photographs are able to show an aspect of a past point in time. The brilliance of photography is that it is a tool with many uses.
In personal uses, photography is different for every single person. One may take photos for later reference in a drawing or writing. You could take photos share important moments of your life with friends and family. Or something looked interesting and maybe other people would think it was cool as well. Photography could be used on vacation to catalogue everything you saw to create a visual storybook of your adventures.
Professionally, every photograph has a message to convey to an audience from the photographer. Wedding photographs are meant to show, and preserve for memory, the love of newlyweds. A photographer from a newspaper wants to accurately depict an event that the writer is trying to recreate with words. An advertising firm uses photography to evoke certain emotions to heighten the need for their product.
Photography can be either easy or challenging, and the photographer decides which it will be. It is easy to point and shoot, the lighting may be poor and the angle is misleading, but a photo was taken and it can serve a purpose. The art of photography comes from the effort of those who take photos. Wildlife photographers, for instance, can spend weeks in the wilderness waiting for the perfect shot that will grace the cover of National Geographic. Sure, they had seen plenty of animals, but it is impossible to deny the awe when you see a rare leopard emerging from a misty forest at daybreak. People put their lives on the line to photograph volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes and other violent weather conditions. Rather than take a shot of a tornado three miles away, photographers will race along deserted roads to capture the perfect moment of pure, unbridled destruction. Dedicated photographers will lie in the dirt, climb rickety fences, perch on the edge of buildings, and dodge traffic to ensure they have the right lighting and an angle that really drives home the intensity of the photo.
There is little that can compare to a photograph that a dedicated photographer painstakingly prepared. Candid photos are some of the most powerful pieces produced, and there is little planning that can create the situations they are taken. A photographer will wait; prone on milk crates, camera trained on a group of people, for hours, until her subjects create a composition with value and depth. A simple picture isn’t enough, the lighting, the angle, the composition has to be compelling.
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