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Post by Kath on Apr 1, 2024 11:13:39 GMT
I have elected to keep a three month span for this one, mainly selfishly because I like a long-form project and also there are also a couple of projects that I need a kick up the bum to get started with.
Documentary could be taken to be 'evidence' or 'story-telling' or a mixture of both. If you have a locality near to you that you feel you haven't photographed in a coherent way this could be the opportunity you need. There may be a social, political, personal or historic story that you'd like to tell. It's different from 'street' photography in that it might include portraits, interiors, still life shots, landscapes, urban scenes and street photography among any other genres too but as a whole it needs to hang together and tell a story. I'd like to see somewhere between 4 and 15 shots to tell your story/document your evidence.
Edited to add: Editing. I'm content for people to convert to B&W, play around with contrast, saturation, levels etc and to crop, even to apply filters/presets. But please don't change the content of the shots - if it wasn't there, don't add it in.
Any questions, just shout.
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Post by peterob on Apr 1, 2024 12:23:43 GMT
I have elected to keep a three month span for this one, mainly selfishly because I like a long-form project and also there are also a couple of projects that I need a kick up the bum to get started with. Documentary could be taken to be 'evidence' or 'story-telling' or a mixture of both. If you have a locality near to you that you feel you haven't photographed in a coherent way this could be the opportunity you need. There may be a social, political, personal or historic story that you'd like to tell. It's different from 'street' photography in that it might include portraits, interiors, still life shots, landscapes, urban scenes and street photography among any other genres too but as a whole it needs to hang together and tell a story. I'd like to see somewhere between 4 and 15 shots to tell your story/document your evidence. Edited to add: Editing. I'm content for people to convert to B&W, play around with contrast, saturation, levels etc and to crop, even to apply filters/presets. But please don't change the content of the shots - if it wasn't there, don't add it in. Any questions, just shout. Gosh. I did much of my rehab last year at a place called Ness Gardens. I took lots of photographs. We have rejoined so I'll take many more in the next months. It has been quite important to me. It is quite photogenic but as of this minute I would have no idea how to document it. I suppose the same could be said of the garden at Erddig (National Trust) which is a more formal garden, and a level walk, which we have been going to for years but was special last year. Ness is a botanic garden (University of Liverpool). |
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Post by Kath on Apr 1, 2024 12:46:27 GMT
Gosh. I did much of my rehab last year at a place called Ness Gardens. I took lots of photographs. We have rejoined so I'll take many more in the next months. It has been quite important to me. It is quite photogenic but as of this minute I would have no idea how to document it. I suppose the same could be said of the garden at Erddig (National Trust) which is a more formal garden, and a level walk, which we have been going to for years but was special last year. Ness is a botanic garden (University of Liverpool). Okay, so this is how I'd think about doing something like that. Pick one of the gardens. Concentrate your efforts on the one area - too easy to be distracted and derail the project otherwise. Take some time to think about how you felt about the place. Was it a positive experience or a difficult one? Does going back prompt any memories or emotions? If it was a lovely, happy, uplifting time you could choose to take photographs when the weather reflects that. If it feels like it was more of a hard slog you might want to go back when the weather is less good. Or you may want to convert images to black and white perhaps. You don't have to decide this now. Take the photographs and spend some time with them later. Take photographs with wider views to give an overview of the space. Gradually move in closer to depict smaller areas and then closer still to depict details. Was there a regular path that you took? You could take a photograph at various intervals along that path. You could retake the path several times on different days and show us how it changes according to time of day/weather/whatever piques your interest on that visit. I like to revisit our local woods with my camera fairly regularly. I generally avoid the obvious things - like the bluebells in spring because everyone gets shots of those. I like to see how the light changes in the woods at different times of year. I like finding new paths that I've not taken before. I like documenting the structures that local teenagers build wehre they think they're hidden away from everyone. Individually they may not be much but gradually I'm creating a document of how I experience the woods. So your project might be a straight 'This is Ness Gardens and what it looks like' and there's nothing wrong with that. Or the images could tell us a bit about how you experience/d the site. I'm happy for a documentary project to have a supporting statement if you think that would help. |
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Post by peterob on Apr 1, 2024 14:35:34 GMT
Gosh. I did much of my rehab last year at a place called Ness Gardens. I took lots of photographs. We have rejoined so I'll take many more in the next months. It has been quite important to me. It is quite photogenic but as of this minute I would have no idea how to document it. I suppose the same could be said of the garden at Erddig (National Trust) which is a more formal garden, and a level walk, which we have been going to for years but was special last year. Ness is a botanic garden (University of Liverpool). Okay, so this is how I'd think about doing something like that. Pick one of the gardens. Concentrate your efforts on the one area - too easy to be distracted and derail the project otherwise. Take some time to think about how you felt about the place. Was it a positive experience or a difficult one? Does going back prompt any memories or emotions? If it was a lovely, happy, uplifting time you could choose to take photographs when the weather reflects that. If it feels like it was more of a hard slog you might want to go back when the weather is less good. Or you may want to convert images to black and white perhaps. You don't have to decide this now. Take the photographs and spend some time with them later. Take photographs with wider views to give an overview of the space. Gradually move in closer to depict smaller areas and then closer still to depict details. Was there a regular path that you took? You could take a photograph at various intervals along that path. You could retake the path several times on different days and show us how it changes according to time of day/weather/whatever piques your interest on that visit. I like to revisit our local woods with my camera fairly regularly. I generally avoid the obvious things - like the bluebells in spring because everyone gets shots of those. I like to see how the light changes in the woods at different times of year. I like finding new paths that I've not taken before. I like documenting the structures that local teenagers build wehre they think they're hidden away from everyone. Individually they may not be much but gradually I'm creating a document of how I experience the woods. So your project might be a straight 'This is Ness Gardens and what it looks like' and there's nothing wrong with that. Or the images could tell us a bit about how you experience/d the site. I'm happy for a documentary project to have a supporting statement if you think that would help. Thank you very much. It has been a good experience and I need to get some wider views. The ones I have tend to be similar in that, if there is a spot that I like, I take a picture. Most of my National Trust garden pictures are like that - same thing, again and again, and again. Powis Castle is particularly bad for that even though it is a wonderful garden. Otherwise, at Ness most of the pictures I have taken tend more to detail of flowers (or birds, or butterflies). Just looking at what is there now in Lightroom I don't see any that would make a sequence but I'll give it a go. |
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Post by zx9 on Apr 1, 2024 15:50:47 GMT
Many moons ago I joined with a couple of other local amateurs documenting Dulwich Park through the seasons. It occurs to me that you peterob has an opportunity to show how his local public garden changes from early spring through to summer. It is a time when plants change quickly, when grass goes from boggy dull grey green to bright green new growth and perhaps even parched yellow in June. You could concentrate on a theme be it a particular corner of the garden, a group of trees, visitors to the garden, wildlife or people though I know you don't like taking pictures with people. Personally I think you have the makings of a project that can grow beyond the next three months. I wish you well with the project. |
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Post by kate on Apr 1, 2024 18:23:06 GMT
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Post by Kath on Apr 2, 2024 7:00:18 GMT
This is such a poignant series, Kate. I was talkiing to someone about the way we can't helpl but look at a photograph taken in the past and project the future onto it now that we know it. We look back and see not just our memory of the person but also the knowledge that they, (and we) necessarily couldn't have had at the time of its making. Each photograph, being a marker in a timeline, inherently implies the end of the timeline. Roddy looks like he was a kind man with a twinkle in his eye.
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Post by donerundlecams on Apr 14, 2024 21:58:38 GMT
Firstly, Kate, my sincerest condolences  and, secondly, that is an absolutely brilliant photo essay showing Roddy and his life, family and, sadly, eventual death. Sincerely, Jack |
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Post by zou on Apr 30, 2024 19:29:01 GMT
I'm snapping away at my local outdoor industrial heritage museum. I've loads of pictures from there but started from scratch using just my mobile and processing consistently (similar to previous theme). So far it's just 20 or so scenes without a coherent thread to join them, but as I go back I expect I'll either end up exploring the same bits or a theme may make itself visible on reviewing the images.
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Post by Kath on May 1, 2024 7:32:51 GMT
I'm using this as a means of kickstarting a project I've been thinking about for ages now on Volunteering. There are a couple of things organised for it so that by the end of June I should have something worth showing! April has been about the planning more than the shooting.
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Post by zou on Jun 21, 2024 9:33:31 GMT
How's everyone gotten on? I've got about 20 shots so far but going to try to get some more today. Nothing like a deadline to get the project going!
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Post by peterob on Jun 21, 2024 10:47:27 GMT
How's everyone gotten on? I've got about 20 shots so far but going to try to get some more today. Nothing like a deadline to get the project going! Not well. Can't get my head around it. I've been out a few times, to take pictures, but have come back without any. |
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Post by Kath on Jun 23, 2024 10:44:42 GMT
To be honest, I've failed miserably at my own task! Complete lack of time combined with arrangements falling through. I do have some images but they hardly tell the whole story at this point - or really any major part of it.
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Post by zx9 on Jun 28, 2024 8:33:56 GMT
To be honest, I've failed miserably at my own task! Complete lack of time combined with arrangements falling through. I do have some images but they hardly tell the whole story at this point - or really any major part of it. I would say that too, I have hundreds of unprocessed files from the last couple of months but I did not find anything to concentrate on for long enough to even blag that I had documented it.
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Post by zou on Jun 30, 2024 9:44:00 GMT
I'll endeavour to upload a bunch to Flickr so I can link them. But maybe this challenge format isn't working for us?
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and, secondly, that is an absolutely brilliant photo essay showing Roddy and his life, family and, sadly, eventual death.