Photos essays, calling it your own.
Just sharing a few insights gained from the "noise singapore" talk yesterday. Not so much about technical skills and equipment, but more on what makes a truly unique photo essay.
It's not about some topic you suddenly thought about and go shoot. It's not about a compilation of photos you happen to capture while you were at some event, some country, or some holiday trip. It is about something you know, something close to you, something you might feel strongly for.
Quoting a few examples:
1. Taxi driver - he made his back seat into a mini studio, and photographs his passengers. The result is a compilation of many distinct, unique individuals that reflected the diversity of the population he resides in.
2. Pilot - from the same angle through his cockpit, he shoots the many different scenes from different countries he has flown to. The result is a set of wonderful scenery, each framed by that same cockpit window which he is truly familiar with.
These examples really urges us to look back at our own life. What is truly your own experience? You will most probably never out-fame Ansel Adams in landscape photography, ditto in different fields like photojournalism, sports, fashion, portraiture, and wedding photography. Technically correct photographs are so easy to create with the slew of new technology we have today, and will have in the days to come.
I'm not saying that the next 镜看 or Poplens would require essays of such quality. These are just some ideas that one could think about in your free time.
Just sharing a few insights gained from the "noise singapore" talk yesterday. Not so much about technical skills and equipment, but more on what makes a truly unique photo essay.
It's not about some topic you suddenly thought about and go shoot. It's not about a compilation of photos you happen to capture while you were at some event, some country, or some holiday trip. It is about something you know, something close to you, something you might feel strongly for.
Quoting a few examples:
1. Taxi driver - he made his back seat into a mini studio, and photographs his passengers. The result is a compilation of many distinct, unique individuals that reflected the diversity of the population he resides in.
2. Pilot - from the same angle through his cockpit, he shoots the many different scenes from different countries he has flown to. The result is a set of wonderful scenery, each framed by that same cockpit window which he is truly familiar with.
These examples really urges us to look back at our own life. What is truly your own experience? You will most probably never out-fame Ansel Adams in landscape photography, ditto in different fields like photojournalism, sports, fashion, portraiture, and wedding photography. Technically correct photographs are so easy to create with the slew of new technology we have today, and will have in the days to come.
I'm not saying that the next 镜看 or Poplens would require essays of such quality. These are just some ideas that one could think about in your free time.
