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Moving forward one step at a time...

Relocating old work and uploading new work turns out to be a lot of work.

Who would've thought, huh?


Rest assured, I'm working on it. Translating texts to English, changing some links, it's all pretty simple work. So soon this blog will be much better filled. So bear with me.


It's a work in progress.

Thursday, 6 January 2011

One - I told you not to come here!


Requirements:

- The photographs had to feature people.
- The photographs had to be staged, rather than a documentation of something that just happened to happen.

The latter was tricky for me. I preferred just taking my camera somewhere and capturing things. And I didn't even do that very often.

The newspaper headline that I came up with, was: "INCREASING NUMBER OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS THROUGH LACK OF BICYCLE LIGHTS!"

I wanted a subject that I could take pictures for during nighttime, because I could only organize shoots at a time at which the daylight was long gone. Close to midwinter, you get the picture.

I had a strong tendency to think about how I was going to do things for far too long, and postpone actually doing them. Composition, lighting, etc. Eventually, I did the shoot the night before the pictures were due. Woops.
Most of the criticism that I received ended up concerning the number of photographs that I had (far too few) and the literal subject, which restricted me.
In retrospect, I would have given the exact same criticism.

So, my tips for the next week were:
To use more variation in the settings, to be less literal about the subject, and to spend more time actually taking pictures, so I'd have more.








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