Marek Isalski, Entropy Source
Progress on Photography Ambitions for 2011
- relax, don't be in such a hurry
- I've been shooting a lot more with film, in particular with the TLR; this definitely slows me right down into thinking about each and every shot; extending this to my use of digital where appropriate (e.g. still need to do some high-speed fire at gigs)
- use humour
- TODO
- don't do what everyone else does
- low ISO and long exposures at a gig, using older lenses
- experiment
- numerous, but see experimental collection on Flickr
- get it right "in camera"
- increasing more and more, especially since I've started shooting with custom picture styles on the DSLR; and lots of film
- put things in front of the lens that aren't the subject
- TODO
- in the race for technical elegance, don't forget the artistic
- ongoing
- but don't forget the tripod/monopod
- ongoing
- composition is more than just framing the picture: remember lighting, depth of focus...
- ongoing
- direct your model(s) and be more confident when doing so
- this shot in particular required direction, and I'm increasing the number of modelled photoshoots I do, with professionals and amateurs; ongoing
- accept artistic input from others, including (perhaps especially?) from models
- ongoing
- remember the rules, but also remember to break the rules
- ongoing
- stretch yourself a little beyond the comfort zone
- done this once or twice now; also, notably, street photography and photographing strangers; still ongoing
- get more flash power
- achieved 14th March
- free-for-all "Facebook Profile Shoot"
- two have been organised so far; results from the first
- more male-modelled photographs (paying, for a moment, attention to the "gender binary")
- done only one so far (at the profile picture shoot in July)
- try and do at least one shoot completely "in camera" with no post-processing
- getting closer to this; for instance, many photos from DV8fest 2011 were SooC JPEGs
- explore the machinery/nature boundary
- ongoing
- do more street photography
- now have a street photography set on Flickr
- do more photography on film
- definitely been doing this, loving my EOS-1
- do more black and white
- TLR and Caffenol and more besides
- do more "high key"
- done some, will need to do more; ongoing
- Sweden
- tried it, done it, liked it, loved it!
- Norfolk Broads
- TODO
- Geordie-land
- done, and will be revisiting
- Cornwall
- TODO
- nature (bird or otherwise)
- TODO
- landscape
- TODO
- more studio stuff
- done