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In my photo journalism days I use to collect situations and make them visually interesting as I moved into studio work I find this to be opposite, that I need to have preconceived ideas of how i am going to shoot people, their placement, their facial expression, and body type etc.
Do any of you find this to be true? and what do you do to work out what could be your ultimate image? I heard a POD cast on Annie Leibovitz shoot and she prepares for her ideas before shooting, searching for various images or ideas days before meeting her subject.
Do any of you find this to be true? and what do you do to work out what could be your ultimate image? I heard a POD cast on Annie Leibovitz shoot and she prepares for her ideas before shooting, searching for various images or ideas days before meeting her subject.
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Re: Collecting visually or manipulating or setting up situation (Contrived?)
Mon, September 15, 2008 - 10:05 AM
Abject,
> In my photo journalism days I use to collect situations and make them visually interesting
> as I moved into studio work I find this to be opposite, that I need to have preconceived ideas
I think in many ways you've hit on the core difference between photoJ and studio work.
It *is* of course possible to "improvise" in the studio; but most studio-spaces are so much more limited than the vastness of photoJ that, IMHO, it tends to be better to *intentionally* go for a given look/image/feel/etc when in-studio. Others' MMV, obviously! Also, many "iconic" documentary images turn out to have been partly or wholly contrived... so there's quite a bit of grey, it's not at all a binary either/or situation!
As for an "ultimate image" ... hm. I'm not sure I subscribe to that concept. But maybe I'm not understanding what you mean...
- Steve
