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| Quiana P Jackson. Floating, 2014 |
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| Quiana P Jackson. Untitled, 2014 |
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As photographers, who says we cannot be inspired by our misfortunes?
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Showing posts with label concept. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concept. Show all posts
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Sunday Spotlight On: The Emotionally Inspired Photographer
As I begin to create concepts for my photography, I find myself driven by my emotional state at that time. In my opinion that is when I create some of my best work. Recently I have been almost like a zombie with school, work, parenting and even as a friend. I am not sure why things are hitting me all at once but I have accepted it and begin to approach photograph as my therapy. Trust me when I say that I have a ton of series that I begin and never finish and it is because I am over that emotion. Now I am finding myself just creating and have taught myself that things does not always have to be about a series. One image is enough, or shall I say that one image can relay the message that I am intending to make. For my Photo Criticism course we were to create images with two different concepts. That day I was running on empty and I knew that I had to do the assignment but I just wanted to sit down and finish watching my television show The Leftovers. Once it was over I thought about using that show as inspiration. Just like that it all came together!
As photographers, who says we cannot be inspired by our misfortunes?
As photographers, who says we cannot be inspired by our misfortunes?
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Seriously, what is that?!
Greetings
fellow shooters, Tuesday Ambassador here again wondering what in the world I
should write about this week. The first thing that comes to mind is that I have
not been in a shooting class for some time due to our previous extended winter
break. This was about the exact time that I had acquired my strobe equipment
and was required to take a self-portrait with my newly acquired equipment. I
did much experimenting with the new strobes capturing various subjects, but the
one subject that was eating at me the most was me. Perhaps this may have been a
mistake on my part in getting the T2i instead of the T3i three years ago. But
would you really want an articulating screen as a complete newbie with cameras,
regardless of any protection plan you put on it?
Now maybe it was a just a
coincidence that in the time of our break, while being away from my studio, I
was bored. Bored at my buddies house in the middle of the night and I had been
itching to take pictures, but had forgotten one of my tripods at the studio. Of
course my buddy is so tired after we watched a video on YouTube that he crashed
on his bed soon after. Meanwhile, thinking back about the video it later occurred
to me of a unique, yet a potentially destructible way of creating art from the
camera. You guys may or may not like this as I have gotten mixed reviews from
the people closest to me, but none-the-less a couple of photos are posted below.
I think the consensus so far is that you either love it or you hate it.
You are probably wondering one of
two things; why am I seeing this, or what did you do to get that? Well, this is
much of the reason why my T2i ended up broken in the first place. Although, at
the time it was apparent that the lens’s mounting points were broken but the
camera functioned as normal with no visual signs of damage. I kept at it after the fact. Needless to say,
I had a feeling that they would need to check the camera as well and so they
were both shipped the next day. I ended up acquiring the T3i as a substitute
while the T2i was out being looked at. Can one get camera sick? It may be why I
had not been shooting much because of the lack of control I had for the T3i at
the time. Then I notice looking through the viewfinder that I would be
returning the T3i regardless of the outcome of my T2i. This is why I did more
“drop” tests keeping well aware of not actually dropping the camera this time.
Below you will find the T3i photos of the “drop” test before returning it to
establish a brand new, flawless T3i. In case you have not figured it out by now,
my T2i is no more. L
These were all done in various
lighting situations, so color balance was a concern, however, not important
after seeing how they turned out. Yes, the process is simple and may potentially
be damaging to any camera but call me crazy when I say that I knew my camera’s
demise would come soon after experimenting with this hazardous option. So it’s
obvious that this is a do at your own risk project. However, this could not
have come at a better time as Studio Photography will be on my next round of
studies and I figure that having the articulating LCD screen will help out immensely
when it comes time to capture some self-portraits.
With all that said, I do miss my
camera but now that I have my control back on the now T3i, I want to kick
myself for not getting it in the first place. Often times I wonder if this was
meant to happen the way it did. Either way, tell me what you guys think. Am I headed anywhere with this?
Stay tuned next Tuesday to find out the first
subjects I captured with my new T3i. Let’s just hope I did not lose grip on
them too. Pun definitely intended.
Have a wonderful day and keep shooting,
Your Tuesday Ambassador
And as always, thanks for reading.
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Brainstorming is Useful!
Hello everyone and welcome to another Terrific Tuesday!
So, here is the situation: you have started class and during
the first week you are asked to submit a proposal on a final project for the
class, the parameters and the requirements are set, however, you have no idea
what to do. Hurry, you have to post that
proposal for review before the end of the week!
What do you do, what topic you choose, how are you going to develop it?
Answer: start brainstorming as soon as possible!
We all have brainstormed at one time or another, trying to
make decisions of where to go, what movie to watch, where to go to eat, how to
manage the budget, etc… Brainstorming
for photography is not too different, you have the knowledge and you have
studied hard, it is just a matter to put it all together in a way that you do
what you like, meet the requirements and learn about the concepts that you are
expressing or photographing.
By the way, brainstorming and research are not the same, you
brainstorm before you research, otherwise you might be going in circles with no
goal in sight (or mind)!
So when do you perform a brainstorming session? For me, it
is almost a daily thing, when I am driving I see something that gives me an
idea and instantly try to fit it to my upcoming project. I am at work and someone says something
interesting, I instantly find an angle to use with photography. For you, it might have happened in any place,
sleeping, eating, playing, watching TV or just while you take pictures.
One of my professors gave us some tips about brainstorming,
I will share them with you all. This is
what she wrote to the students in our current class of Photo Essay:
“Having trouble coming up with the perfect idea?
Why not take a bit of time to brainstorm some ideas before you begin your research?
Take 20 minutes or so grab a cup of good coffee or a nice cold beer or class or wine and just have fun with it.
Often I don’t think we spend enough time on the creative process of our work.
Choosing the right story for you is imperative for your success.
Think about what you are curious about. What are you passionate about?
On the practical side- what do you have time for? What do you have access for?”
It sounds simple ah?
It is simple, the best thing you can do before jumping in the water is
to see how deep it is, how cold it might be, and then figure out what are you
going to do when you are in the deep end (the analogy sounded better in my
head)!
Want to read some more about brainstorming and
photography? Take a look at this link
that provides some information about brainstorming with Lightroom.
Writing a paper instead? Then check out this page:
Hope you all have fun brainstorming and let me tell you,
once you start it will almost become second nature.
Drop me a line if you have different brainstorming
techniques, lets share with everyone else out there!
Until later, this is your Tuesday Ambassador!
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