I’m very aware that I have pretty much neglected my blog much to the despair of some of you out there (you know who you are). So I thought it might be nice to add some little mini blog posts rather than long articles. I think this is the sticking point for me, finding the time to put something down in writing. I’m thinking if I approach this like I would do my photography – which often to just do little bits here and there and keeping myself active, then I can perhaps keep on top of some posts! (Well this is the plan at the moment anyway).
(Well this is the plan at the moment anyway).
So today on Instagram I asked what people might like to see for me in 2021, A few people had suggested things they might like to see me photograph. As interesting as it is to hear what people might like to see I’m not really able to follow what others want as I am very driven by what works for myself. Especially as my photography is my personal practice. Other people had suggested they would like to see more interaction from me regarding techniques and help. This is something I’m very interested in and I know how hard it is when you are first starting out to take the right steps to build your photographic voice.
I often try to help as many people as I can but little snippets here and there can only go so far. A few months ago I did a live session to a small group about seeing colour and editing/producing colour tones. This was great to do but as I stressed at the time this wasn’t a copy and paste workshop of how to produce a similar images. I think it’s important for people to be able to have this right tools to be able to help them on their own path.
anyway, I’m starting to waffle here so what is the little blog post supposed to be about? Well this one is spotting a scene and photographing it.
this is sometimes the way that I will work when I find a scene on moment happening in front of me, when I have a little more time with a situation I will try and work out what the best frame will be. If I have some time I will compose and shoot a few frames to work out how the frame best it fits together. Obviously this doesn’t work every time but you get the idea of the process. So I start by finding something that sort of lines up and in this case it was the helter-skelter from the beach and a ship at sea in the background.
this lined up nicely and the colours in the foreground led to a slightly abstract looking image, I used the lines that intersected the frame to create something a little more visually impacting and then just shot a few frames as I slightly composed the scene differently.
The first few frames are the ones that (in my opinion) work best, This is what I first saw and was what caught my eye. I then recomposed to try and see if I could build on it. Sometimes this can work and I can add more layers to a simple frame, other times it doesn't . In this case the stronger images for me are the first few where I just slightly loved the intersections of the lines in the frame.
