Before the Beginning

I wasn't able to get the SLR camera just yet, but for the sake of experimenting with grayscales, saturation, etc. on Photoshop I decided to take a few preliminary photographs.

The first is a cheap imitation of a photo taken with an SLR by a cameraman I know in Bombay, India. The clarity and angle of the photo, which he took while looking through a mirror, was phenomenal.



Portraits are fascinating -- the capturing of a thought in motion across a face, and its potential for being true art, whether an actual image [left] or a poster [right], is something that I hope to perfect. Thoughts on faces, in particular emotions or insights, are intriguing.




However, with all of this said, it must be emphasized that these pictures, taken in Brookland, represent preliminary stages of photography. The stage before the beginning.