Beautiful light in pictures, interesting compositions are wonderful but for me the most important thing in a photograph is the emotional impact it hits the viewer with. Who cares if you have beautiful light and a great unique composition if the work lacks emotional power. If you can get composition, great light and great emotion into one picture all the better but I will take emotion over pretty light any day. A picture that has strong emotional appeal can work even with flat or average light, it will be remembered but a picture that is all style and no substance is gimmicky and soon forgotten.
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| Photography by James Nachtwey |
