Malva Suárez S. shares with Pop Sonality 10 essential notes about photography for you!

10 Essential Notes About Photography For You 

by Malva Suárez.

“Respect the gaze and its expressions of empathy, sensitivity, skill, and hardness of the eye,

creator of women photographers, men photographers, and non-binary photographers; we

are all important, even you who start the adventure… Welcome, take your camera or

phone and Click! from the heart”

Malva Suárez S. Venezuelan photographer documentary filmmaker and arts @miradas.malva

1. As a photographer, observe and know the light, taking care of the shadows, thus creating a possible reality Click!

2. It is important to know your camera, lenses, and other accessories, as you do know each part of your body.

3. Learn the history of photography and its photographers, the arts, sciences, and the diverse cultures, religions, and technologies of the world. It is important for your life.

4. Dare to look for an idea, a theme, or a place to photograph, have fun, and start Click! “Trial and Error” until you achieve what you want.

5. It depends on you to train your gaze and be a photographer with perseverance, patience, and ethics.

6. The simple or professional camera doesn’t work if you don’t know how to use it, if you are not physically and mentally prepared to take the photo either a documentary event, or an armed conflict, or a family event, a wedding, portrait, street photography, nature, editorial.

“AI is another world to explore, they are technological realities in the field of photography”

7. Take care of the value of what is photographed, or the event itself, aesthetics, technique, organizing the idea, and knowing how to tell the possible truth with photos for the world.

8. Some photographers were born with the ability to take unique, wonderful photos, and others are being trained, they are photographers with other views.

“The photographer’s greatest enemy is the ego”

9. Photography should express something, move social structures, and stereotypes, or give a message to whoever sees it, “everything is subjective”. Now, with AI, all photography is resolved. (?)

10. Very important, we create stories with color photos, black and white, digital or 35mm, 120mm and more film, we make visible realities. Images shared on different digital platforms, become files, in libraries for safekeeping over time.

So, like a famous 3D One-Ear Manifesto, with digital information stored in DNA in glacial ecosystems.

Cumboto and its magical realism.

The residents tell that The Liberator,

Simón Bolívar went looking for men

and women to fight for the

Independence of the region of America.

Photograph Credits:

Photo, Malva Suárez. San Juan Bautista

from Cumboto. Aragua - Venezuela.

Caribbean.