Photography Ambitions in 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:

• Goths in Space
• gender-bending and patriarchy-smashing