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The Plan

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Brief:

To shoot a range of images good enough to be printed in a 30cm square book. 4-5
chapters with text. The book will be based around London UK, Working ideas for chapters are currently "Portrait People, Buildings, Street, Sport, Wealth and/or History.

Working Title options: "City Exposed" or "Taking the Light"

Predicted issues:

  • Digital cameras are native 7x5, not 1x1, I will
    need to consider framing.
  • Prints are reasonably large so need to consider
    format and quality.
  • Cost of printing, may need to put in some
    overtime!

Tools:

  • Canon 50D, Canon 70-200mm L Series, Sigma 30mm,
    Canon 60mm macro, Canon 17-85mm IS.
  • Photoshop
  • Blurb Books - www.blurb.co.uk/
  • Deviant Art critiques (not that I am calling any
    of you tools!!)

 

Preparation:

I would like to think of a story that the book could tell
in images playing to my strengths in photography and digital darkroom. Each
chapter should have a title and a blurb telling the reader the context of the
shots. Each chapter should contain 5-8 shots with a final page talking about
each image, not sure if should be technical or story based, i am leaning towards story but maybe a mix. Storyboard the
book and shot types before shooting.  
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From the Hip Part 2

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So my last entry (a long time ago) was about shooting from the hip,

errmm so this was just an awful idea.. turns out you end up with a lot of crap in fact it took about 1000 shots before i got even close to lucky, everything was blurred, out of focus, bland and boring. The only shot out of the lot i even hinted at liking was the one below. its not great but its raw, no photoshop, no settings, shot on Program (Canon 50D with a 70-200mm F4 L series Lens)
so i think we can safely say that you need to compose pretty much 99% of your photography and only sometimes through extreme perseverance do we get lucky.  END

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From the Hip

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I was reading the Sta.sh from DA about Steet togging, it posed a very good question about posing and snapping people who are not aware of the camera, Personally i prefer to snap them before they see me, capture the "real them" as they are perceived on the street. but i can also see the beauty in posed art and the message that can convey.   


Here is a shot that i took in Guildford, its a reaction shot, i was walking Camera in hand and on seeing this couple looking "oh so glam" i took the shot, BUT i still took the time to shoot at eye level, focus the image, look at the light, check the frame, is this not posing the image to our liking before capturing our subject? does this make it the same or at least similar to that of a posed shot?  


 

So maybe to get a real life perspective or at the very least a more "in the moment" image the camera should be set to Auto (or program) with Auto-focus on and we should shoot from the hip, or just lift the arm and blast, random trigger pulls no thought about aim and no hesitation about the shot. no doubt alot will just be naff all but i bet buried deep within the 100s of raw files that will populate the memory card will be a golden image of pure emotion, reaction and humanity. This will be the closest thing to "The Capture" 


So given this idea, i am going to go out and about this weekend were ever i am and just shoot from the hip and see what i get.. until then this is all i have on the memory card.. 

Taken at my Works Holiday Party, everyone was bustling in and i just lifted the camera over my head and fired.. (also its been a little Photoshop`d!) 



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Charity Case

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So im growing a Moo-Starsh for Movember,
Be kind and donate some money please!!

mobro.co/WannabeTomSelleck

Thanks every one.

Ben
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Still Finding my Feet..

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Well its been 4 months since I joined here, I'm really glad I did, I have met some amazing artists and been impressed with everyone's amazing work! In the last 4 months DA has motivated and taught me loads about Photography styles, ideas and techniques as well as a lot about "Digital Darkroom" I feel like my  "Arty" side has grown and for that I am grateful to the rest of you.. Right now my biggest inspiration on DA is Jaime Ibarra. jaimeibarra.deviantart.com/ I find his work amazing to look at, his use of colour is just brilliant.. but please don't feel like I don't love you all :-)
Recently got my self a new PS book, "Photoshop CS4 Essential Skills" (ISBN 978-0-240-52124—4) Its been amazingly helpful in just finding my feet around some areas where I would get a little stuck, like Alpha Channels and so on.. its got a DVD tutorial collection as well, which although the images are a little dull to work with, they are just what you need to learn with and then apply to your own work.

Soon I shall be treating my self to a new Macro lens, Canon 100mm f2.8 USM, So I'm looking forward to seeing what I will be able to do with that..

That's all I got for now, thank you all for the support and feedback and please be critical as I really need to develop and grow my skills..

Thanks

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