Excerpt from a video discussion about photography focusing on what viewers first look at in a photograph (sharpest point, brightest point, or eyes) and questioning the need for technical perfection; emphasizes immediate visual impulse over technical perfection.
What's the thing you look for in a, in a photograph? Well I learned in school first thing people look at is either the most, the sharpest point in the photograph, the brightest point in a photograph or what a human is the eyes. Right, yeah that was the genius of Picasso. Yes the eyes. Yes, yes. People probably don't catch that but he always has eyes. Even if it's a bird, whatever it is. Yeah there's eye true contrast. Is there such thing as a perfect photograph? I don't know if you need perfection honestly in a photograph. Technical perfection is one thing. I don't believe in it, I don't care about it. It doesn't need to be sharp, it doesn't need to be like well lit or anything. It's all about the first impulse of seeing it. If it catches my attention in the first second of looking at it it's.
