As a person who has taken photography as an artistic expression for a long time, I now find out photography originated from the scientific observation of the surrounding world. It originated from scientific documentation(which I somehow always ignored) to a more sensational art expression. Also, It is very exciting for me to explore the limitation of photography actually. It started from how people differentiated on their own biases, background, and perspectives. Photography is limited because “it only captures a specific object at a specific time in a specific place.”(17.) It is fascinating to know because people would have endless perspectives to observe this specific object. Other than photography, photogrammetry is a more analytical form of representation. By using mathematical, econometric, or other scientific knowledge with the combination of playful shooting skills, we can observe images that the human eye cannot perceive: for example astronomy or anatomy area.
I see the artistic opportunity in quantifying everything happening around us with scientific methods. From my perspective, the information in the world is overloaded, and photography is a way to extract, organize, and re-represent the information I obtained. This re-representing process would give out images that people would ignore. Using the scientific method, I can organize the information by time or projectile and then juxtapose them together and build a connection between them. In the future study process, I would explore more using scientific techniques to extract more organized information, and explore more photogrammetry.