My perception is that most of us students have the same trouble: how to give the right content to posts, expressing ideas, vision, reflection.
What is right
or wrong, when we speak about content?
I got my
graduation in classical subjects: this educational pathway is focused more on
content than technics. Aesthetic sense and the classical prosody are oriented
to order neatness and symmetry. However, part of Philosophy arises from mathematics. 
Then I
switched to computer science, that is on the opposite side of a humanistic approach
to reality, and always based on the order of things.
Weakness: I
am more comfortable in composing and taking photos of what I like (= fine,
nice, lovely, fair), following the general aesthetic sense. What about ugly
things? What if I have to express a vision based on unattractive views?
During my web search I found an
abstract from “Mastering
Photographic Composition, Creativity, and Personal Style” by Alain Briot , a French Photographer based
in Arizona, USA.
Unfortunately the book does not exist in electronic version, only on
paper.
In this sampler there are several considerations about exercising
creativity and developing vision, keeping an eye on enhancing skill and, at the
same time, not loosing the personal vision and, on the contrary, put it on photos.
There are some citations:
“When subject matter is forced to
fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no
freshness of vision. Following
rules of composition can only lead to a tedious
repetition of pictorial cliches.”
Edward Weston
Does it mean that we should avoid
rules (should be the subject aesthetically good or bad) in order to maintain freshness
of vision?
“Photography is more than a
medium for factual communication of ideas.
It is a creative art.”
Ansel Adams
“You have to get away from
relying only on the subject. Light is the imagination’s
main tool. It is something you
work with in defining anything you want to, whether
subject or landscape.”
David Muench, Outdoor Photographer Magazine
In my third exit I had the chance to “play” and shoot with light and
some objects I found on site: I will select one of those photos.
“The great thing about this thing
we call art is that it has no rules.”
Kim Weston
“Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso
However, once I have decided to do my work trying to follow the general rules of composition and trying to be creative as well, the trouble is to express my idea in 12 photos.
However, once I have decided to do my work trying to follow the general rules of composition and trying to be creative as well, the trouble is to express my idea in 12 photos.
