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Post by zou on Apr 1, 2024 13:01:01 GMT
Edit to add I meant to type this in reply to peterobI'll put my hand up and say my set aren't all that effective as a series. As part of something larger, maybe, but I needed to pull something together. There's consistency in style/format/colour treatment, and an almost pairing of bins alongside an almost pairing of barrel/tanks. So not going to win any awards, but still it's a valid type of series I think. Think about something like the Bechers (Bernhard/Bernd and Hilla), who took lots and lots of images of things like water towers or gas tanks. Each is a decent image in its own right but in combination - usually presented in grid layout - they become something more interesting, as you can see similarities and differences which you'd likely never notice just looking at the objects in isolation. I think your garden images would work really well in Kath's new theme challenge. |
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Post by peterob on Apr 1, 2024 13:47:58 GMT
I've now set a new theme of documentary which you can interpret in a lot of different ways. One thing I noticed about your early musings on this thread was that you had a lot of potential themes - alley ways, clocks, things closing down, signs...you could have kept going with any one of those and had a coherent set! I'll have a go with the new theme (.. as in the other thread). Going forward ... that's always been the problem. You clearly see/imagine, somehow, how it can go. I just have a blank and that is frustrating. Still, at least sometimes now (if only occasionally) I can see something that might fit the theme of the day and take the picture. That was impossible even a couple of years ago. Strangely, I find it straightforward to sort through loads of already taken photos and find one(s) that fit. |
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Post by peterob on Apr 1, 2024 13:59:50 GMT
Edit to add I meant to type this in reply to peterob I'll put my hand up and say my set aren't all that effective as a series. As part of something larger, maybe, but I needed to pull something together. There's consistency in style/format/colour treatment, and an almost pairing of bins alongside an almost pairing of barrel/tanks. So not going to win any awards, but still it's a valid type of series I think. Think about something like the Bechers (Bernhard/Bernd and Hilla), who took lots and lots of images of things like water towers or gas tanks. Each is a decent image in its own right but in combination - usually presented in grid layout - they become something more interesting, as you can see similarities and differences which you'd likely never notice just looking at the objects in isolation. I think your garden images would work really well in Kath's new theme challenge. Thank you very much for the feedback, it has helped a bit. I've never heard of the Bechers - I'll look them up. The only pictures I look at (other than family) are the ones posted here, though I do sometimes click through to the Flickr pages too, so references to photographers tend to not mean anything to me. Where I've looked up ones Kath/Kate/yourself have mentioned in the past I've never understood why they became famous. |
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Post by Kath on Apr 1, 2024 14:43:39 GMT
I've now set a new theme of documentary which you can interpret in a lot of different ways. One thing I noticed about your early musings on this thread was that you had a lot of potential themes - alley ways, clocks, things closing down, signs...you could have kept going with any one of those and had a coherent set! I'll have a go with the new theme (.. as in the other thread). Going forward ... that's always been the problem. You clearly see/imagine, somehow, how it can go. I just have a blank and that is frustrating. Still, at least sometimes now (if only occasionally) I can see something that might fit the theme of the day and take the picture. That was impossible even a couple of years ago. Strangely, I find it straightforward to sort through loads of already taken photos and find one(s) that fit. Ah, no, I don't, not really. Like you, I have aphantasia and so often I have to rely on looking at the images I've taken after the fact and deciding which fit together. But I can apply logic before I start photographing which helps narrow down my search. Once I realised that images of bins taken in very different lighting conditions, looked like separate projects, I knew I had to pick a type of weather to shoot in and not go out on days when the weather wasn't like that. For this project at least. Then, I thought about where all the bins were sited and who would see them, so I knew then that I wanted images of people at the places where tourists go, interacting or having their view spoiled. I could have taken it further and attempted to go for shots that looked like postcards but with bins in. In fact I may yet do that. I have a load of ideas bubbling around for a documentary project and I need to spend some time reading and writing my thoughts down to decide if they are truly one project or a collection of projects. I'll start off speculatively taking shots and then look at them again. For me it's very much a process of shoot, assess, select/bin, shoot again and see what I get, see what works. I find it helpful to be able to think 'today I'm on the lookout for xyz' to narrow down my search though. I have no idea what it's going to look like until I'm a good way through. ETA - when I did the Album Familia project, I had a large portable notice board up in the studio at art school. It was right by the door so folk could see it when they came in. I'd tac up cheap prints of the images I'd taken and make groupings, and then ask other people to make selections so I could start seeing different links between the images. I didn't know I had aphantasia then but it was invaluable to me to have other people's impressions because they saw totally different things in the images to me. |
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Post by zx9 on Apr 3, 2024 10:16:45 GMT
Kath ,I had to look up aphantasia. One of the symptoms listed was limited ability to dream, the forum would be considerably less amusing if you suffered that one!
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