Photography Ambitions in 2011
06/Jan/2011
My posts on tone-mapping, panoramas, portraiture, art nude and fetish, landscape and cityscape, nature, and experimental photography all make notes on things I should try to achieve in my photography in 2011. This post is a short-list.
General notes:
- relax, don't be in such a hurry
- use humour
- don't do what everyone else does — low ISO and long exposures at a gig!?
- experiment — examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- get it right "in camera"
- put things in front of the lens that aren't the subject
- in the race for technical elegance, don't forget the artistic
- but don't forget the tripod/monopod
- composition is more than just framing the picture: remember lighting, depth of focus...
- direct your model(s) and be more confident when doing so — this shot in particular required direction
- accept artistic input from others, including (perhaps especially?) from models
- remember the rules, but also remember to break the rules
- stretch yourself a little beyond the comfort zone
- get more flash power — achieved 14th March
More specific ideas for photo-shoots (in addition to my very long list):
- free-for-all "Facebook Profile Shoot"
- more male-modelled photographs (paying, for a moment, attention to the "gender binary")
- try and do at least one shoot completely "in camera" with no post-processing
- explore the machinery/nature boundary
- do more street photography
- do more photography on film
- do more black and white
- do more "high key"
Places to consider going:
- Sweden
- Norfolk Broads
- Geordie-land
- Cornwall
Courses to look out for:
- nature (bird or otherwise)
- landscape
- more studio stuff
Projects to continue: