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Students choosing artistic photography
Extracurricular activities are helpful for relieving the learners' stress from enormous academic load at colleges. The choice of hobby or a club depends upon peculiarities of one's temperament and personal talents. Artistic photography is popular among students who are looking for opportunities to realize their creative potential as well as improve their self-presentation skills.
Despite the fact that contemporary photo cameras are equipped with various devices improving the quality of pictures, the photographer's skills are not less significant. As they say, the true beauty is in the observer's eye. These are amateur photographers who choose the objects, perspective, light and shadows for their small masterpieces.
These artists are able to rate the beauty of the moment at its true value. Amateur photographers taking photos of day to day trifles are similar to Goethe's Faust exclaiming: "Linger you now, you are so fair". Looking for the objects of interest in daily routine that might seem colorless to others, these people might influence the views of the community through their small pictures. At the same time this creative hobby affects the photographers' life views as well.
Benefits of devoting time to artistic photography
1.Photography can change the person's life views enabling him/her to notice the beauty of ordinary things. Catching the moments of everyday life, photographers make them history transforming into memories.
2.This extracurricular activity provides an opportunity to realize one's creative potential and present one's vision of this world. It might seem that there is nothing difficult in taking photos, still, there are no two absolutely identical pictures.
3.A student can participate in amateur exhibitions demonstrating one's hidden talents to the rest of the student community and college administration. It is helpful for sharing experience with other photographers as well as making friends with people who have similar interests.
