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Samantha Cook

Kathleen Donovan

4.20.16

Kathleen Donovan

Samantha Cook

April 11, 2015

Kathleen Donovan

April 11, 2016

In this chapter shore points out how much of what a photographer captures is dependent on things that they have practice noticing or is of their particular style, or their minds eye.  This can really limit your photographic diversity.  However, just the act of thinking about how you are viewing the space around you can cause you to look at things in a new way which could lead to the capture of different types of images.  Photography is also, as he says, a feedback loop with all of the aspects of the physical, depictive, and mental levels, building on but also influencing one another.  That is why photography is a “complex, ongoing, spontaneous, interaction of observation, understanding, and intention”.

Photographer’s have unique mental models in their minds that determine all aspects of their photographs. These mental model in their minds can be of two extremes. The first being, rigid and ossified, where it is bound by conditionings, or it can be supple and fluid, where it is readily adjusted. Think of it as a filter, where a photographer only takes certain kinds of pictures or as an adjusting filter. If a photographer can become aware of the model and level, he can control it and manipulate it to his liking and meaning.