Apr 27 2009
To Do-list..
Its around one thirty in the morning and I’m watching Zack Arias’ critique videos. (Episode 5 going on. This is my fourth time around these videos.) At the same time I am thinking about ways to improve my self as a photographer. What am I doing wrong here? I shouldn’t need to take 100 exposures for one keepper after a five years of shootting and reading endless hours of strobist.com, wacthing pictres of the masters…
So what do I do?
First and for most! I have to think more about the light. Stupid as it seems I thought: hey, I’ll give myself assingments which will force me to do so. Watching these screencasts from Arias I saw few of ‘black on black’ and ‘white on white’ “school assingments.” Thus I have to shoot them! For me and to make me think more about the light!
Two: For my pictures to be something else than they are now, they need to have a story behind them. I have some ideas for these kind of shoots, but .. I have’t shot them. Why? Because the first one went to shit. Film noire set was almost this kind of a project but enough. Thus, I have to think of stories to shoot and to think about the light to underline the statement! Light, not photoshop.
Three: down shift! I love digital for its speed and flexibility, but at the same time it has made me to rush. Slow food is IN right now, so whats the hurry with the pictures? I had a quick shoot today with Hanna. Usualy I would have the first three images gone through the postproduction pipeline before the midnight but not today.
I flipped through those 173 images very carefully and tried to find every single little error I made. And there were plenty! After that I started editing, slowly and widely. Usualy I just quickly pick the best image and I take it through the “pipeline.” Now there are double the amount of images with a basic editing on them. They are waiting for the next round.
