You don’t
take a photograph, you make it.” - Ansel Adams
But how can someone make a photograph? What should be included or excluded to make that one perfect click which the viewers would love to see? Photography is not about how the camera views the subject but how you see it. Emotions, sensibility and an eye for the perfect moment are the ingredients of good photography. Classic photography is something which captures rare moments and things that happens at instant. It is the perfect shot with a thought provoking content which pulls the reader or viewer to take a good look on the picture just to figure out what’s really happening. These types of shots are not easy to catch but they can be captured at right time and right place. Most of the photographers work with classic photography due to its uniqueness and perfection. There is no need of electronics, no Photoshop and no photo choosing out of 100 other shots; just one perfect click. All you need is a good camera and the sense of taking the picture which should convey the emotions of the subject to the viewer hence getting the similar feelings. These emotions can be of happy moments, joy, friendship, sorrow, memories and even a dull face which sometimes becomes complicated to understand. The portrait of Mona Lisa (though it is a painting) can be an example of how a classic picture should look like. Her facial expressions are difficult to understand as some people suggest she is smiling, other say she is sad. The portrait only restrict to her expressions (not the background). Similarly classic photography captures images that restrict only to what the subject is feeling. Classic image provides a strong emotional aspect with just the minimum required context to pull people in who have not been there and brings out the feeling to them. It is the emotion and history behind the image that makes it classic otherwise images of landscapes would have been counted as the best pictures every time.
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