BODY OF WORK
Creating photos over time is a cumulative process. We create a lifetime collection of many individual images that taken together are our body of work. Within our greater body of …
Month: February 2019
NO TIME TO THINK
How often do we have time to mull over our scenes before we turn them into images? When they aren’t moving. Moving targets scatter your contemplation like billiard balls during …
THE FOUR Fs OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography is as simple or complex as our little brains desire. Fisher Price makes a camera for toddlers and Linhof makes superb high-end large format cameras for the ultra pro. …
WHO ARE WE SHOOTING FOR?
“And it’s One, two, three… who are we shootin’ for?…” (Sorry for stealing that line Country Joe McDonald, I have an earworm). 1960s rock lyrics aside, who are we shooting …
PHOTO HOARDING
Digital photos have no mass, they are not physical, although they do take up space; hard drive space, virtual space, mental space. Photographers are often proud of the number of …
SECOND LOOK
How often do we re-examine a scene after getting the shot? Probably fairly often unless it’s a timing thing. Static subjects are easy to re-examine. They don’t go anywhere and …
FAST THINKING
Fast thinking doesn’t use words. It’s more of a knowing. Ya just “know.” In his book, Blink, Malcolm Gladwell calls it thin slicing. Somehow, without quite consciously trying you are …
WILL THEY SEE WHAT YOU SEE?
We take photos for two audiences, ourselves and others. We look, we find something, maybe a scene, an object, an expression, a moment and then we capture it. We frame …
EFFORT
Life is more fun when it’s effortless. When it flows. The brain loves effortless. There is a evolutionary urge to minimize energy output and conserve resources. To be lazy. It’s …
PROJECTS
Life is a project (and it lasts a lifetime). Within the big metaproject are a seemingly infinite number of mini and micro projects. Projects give us focus. It’s something to …