A Better Photographer
January 29, 2010A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called Gear and Goals, in which I mentioned resolutions and plans for the upcoming year. The post was primarily about all the gear and gadgets I purchased last year in order to better my photography. I vowed not to buy any more cameras, lenses, lighting or other things in order to learn how to use the stuff I have now. Photography, at its roots, is about presenting a picture to the world and a lot less about what was used to create the image. What? Yes, ... read more
Time Takes All
January 15, 2010It's the time of year when everything seems to slow down. The holidays are over, it's back to work, it's cold outside, and daylight is a commodity. It's the season of the photographic funk, the photographic depression. This feeling seems to hit me twice a year, once in the depths of the winter and again at the apex of summer. During these times I shut down, I just turn off. I don't pick up the camera for days and when I do I feel like all the pictures I take are worthless. In a post earlier ... read more
Progression
January 13, 2010Today I want to talk about...goals, progression, and perseverance. I've been watching the Zack Arias Transformation video and felt I needed to comment. Over the past few months there's been a progression in my photography in which I find myself moving away from shooting myself to this deep yearning to turn the camera towards others. It's easy for me to capture my emotions and display them , but shooting others scares the hell out of me. When a friend and I set up the strobes in an alleyway recently and we asked passerbys if ... read more
Words
January 12, 2010I've had an account on Flickr for over the past two years. One of the things that's always intrigued me about the site is being able to add words under the photo to discuss whatever one wishes. As a lover of the written word, that appeals to me. This was one of the entries I wrote several months ago while doing a second 365 Project that I eventually abandoned. I had a conversation the other night in which a friend and I discussed the words we put in this box, whether photos should (and can) ... read more
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