Great friend and model Chelsey collaborated with me this past weekend to add to my ongoing shame series. There’s still film to develop but here are a few digital previews from the shoot. Remember folks, keep stretching and exercising your creative muscles, they can’t take a break.
Here's a cool article I came across in which photographer Joshua Paul shoots F1 racing events with none other than a 4x5 film camera, and one from the dawn of the 19th century at that. Again very cool stuff worth spreading. News courtesy of Petapixel.
https://petapixel.com/2017/05/13/photographer-shoots-f1-1913-graflex-4x5-view-camera/
It's not only in good manners to thank others for choosing your work to be displayed in an exhibit but a call for entry can also pave a way for more inspiration. In the case of the Darkroom Gallery and the latest exhibit, "Abstraction", I gained more ideas from Blue Mitchell, photographer and juror. His work can be seen here. Thank you for your selections.
This past weekend, I went up to Boston, to collaborate once again with a model whom I've had the pleasure and privilege to work with before, Chelsey Angers. She manages to take direction and yet spin a bit of her own idea into the mix, making shooting that much more interesting. That alone wouldn't work though. During the process of shooting, my mind was running. It was windier than I was expecting, and I did not have a weight for my diffusion umbrella, which I had plans of using. Not only that but a screw was loose in the bag, it was needed so I could use my flash remotely. What to do when your original plan falters, and now your using more time to find things than to take shots? Scrap the idea and move on, I didn't have all day, plus I had a remote cable. This was one example of how I had to adjust to make better use of my time, don't always become fixated on accessories, let your inner voice speak for your shots.
There are other moments but let's get to the favorites from this shoot. I wanted to focus my energies towards making street shots, rather than high fashion, experimental ideas that I usually have in my head. Its in these shots that I believe, I've found a split second moment where simple posing ends and something shines through
Just one look at the winning images on monoawards.com gave me a brief feeling of trepidation. There are a lot of works of art here that leave me speechless but I made a submission with confidence and my entry was recognized in the abstract category, it can be seen here. I want to thank the jurors of mono awards and even if it wasn't accepted, it was only 20$, you don't have much to loose and you still get your work in front of somebody.
http://petapixel.com/2013/01/27/clyde-butcher-talks-through-his-journey-to-massive-photography/
Love it... even if I can't do it....yet.