Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/29/99 11:45:47 PM, anthony@atkielski.com writes: << It has been raining for a week, and I've been unable to go outside to shoot anything. I am unwilling to let rain pour down onto my camera. >> May I make a suggestion? How about giving yourself an indoor assignment? For example, you might say, "This week I will work on showing interaction." Then go to some public -- indoor if it's raining -- place like the train station or a mall or someplace where people gather and work on your assignment. If you're concerned about how people will react to you shooting pictures then simply approach them, introduce yourself and ask them if you can hang out, observe and shoot a few pictures. Follow a group of kids around the mall, shoot old men playing chess, go to a workplace and photograph the activity. Ask and you shall receive, you know . . . Another approach to get out and shoot is to do a photo scavenger hunt. In the past when I've taught photography workshops I made a list of attributes -- things like red, cold, fast, wide, sad, beautiful, dry -- and randomly wrote four or five of these words on pieces of paper. The students each took a slip of paper out of a hat. Their assignment was to photograph say three of the five words. You could do the same thing. Maybe you could pull one slip each week and work on it. When we did this in the workshops we'd send the students out in public places. SOme shot people, others chickened out and shot architectural details, etc. It doesn't really matter, it got them shooting but more than that, it forced them to try to communicate ideas with their pictures. Bob (there's no rain-outs in photography) McEowen