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| From Dexter Yarbrough's Photos |
Producing photographs that would instantly captivate your audience begins even before you grab your camera and set up your equipment. It begins with knowing ahead of time what story you want your pictures to tell. This is called visualization. The concept was developed by Ansel Adams who formalized the lessons he learned from his experience as a photo-muralist for the Department of the Interior in Washington, DC during World War II. Ansel identified visualization as the first step of his “Zone System.”
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| From Dexter Yarbrough's Photos |
The visualization phase is a detailed and vivid imagination of how you would like the final print to appear. However, Dexter Yarbrough explains that visualization is more than just mere creative thinking. Successful visualization also requires knowing your tools well. Once you have a clear picture in your mind, determine what tools you will need and what techniques must be employed to achieve the results you desire. Thus, you need to know what effects you can achieve when using a particular setting, lens, or filter.
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| From Dexter Yarbrough's Photos |
Once you have completed visualizing, it will serve as your "game plan" for what you will do when you are actually out in the field taking photographs up to when you are in the darkroom developing your pictures or on your computer post-production.
View Dexter Yarbrough’s online gallery at www.djyphotography.com.
