Comments on: Creative Vision – or not! http://www.canonblogger.com/2009/05/06/creative-vision-or-no/ Home of the Learning Digital Photography Podcast with Jason Anderson Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tanya Plonkahttp://www.canonblogger.com/2009/05/06/creative-vision-or-no/comment-page-1/#comment-2081 Tanya Plonka Thu, 07 May 2009 19:17:07 +0000 http://www.canonblogger.com/?p=1448#comment-2081 Ah, you touch on something so true. I get a little irritated when people expect me to take a certain cliched shot - whether on vacation, at a wedding, etc. Inspiration is everything! I just look around, and if it moves me, only then do I want to shoot it. (Though sometimes I feel obligated when I see such landmarks, but I don't enjoy taking those photos! haha). Cameras don't have cruise control for a reason ;) Ah, you touch on something so true. I get a little irritated when people expect me to take a certain cliched shot – whether on vacation, at a wedding, etc. Inspiration is everything! I just look around, and if it moves me, only then do I want to shoot it. (Though sometimes I feel obligated when I see such landmarks, but I don’t enjoy taking those photos! haha). Cameras don’t have cruise control for a reason ;)

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]]> By: Dineshhttp://www.canonblogger.com/2009/05/06/creative-vision-or-no/comment-page-1/#comment-2074 Dinesh Wed, 06 May 2009 17:33:41 +0000 http://www.canonblogger.com/?p=1448#comment-2074 Lovely Zen like post! Very Inspiring! When we slowly start to know a lot of things and start to capture a lot of shots, we tend to stop taking those trivial shots and go looking in the pursuit of the best. Most of the times, the best shots happen when we are relaxed and enjoying the scene rather than frantically looking around to take the best ones! Creativity comes spontaneously and we should let it happen that way. Lovely Zen like post! Very Inspiring! When we slowly start to know a lot of things and start to capture a lot of shots, we tend to stop taking those trivial shots and go looking in the pursuit of the best. Most of the times, the best shots happen when we are relaxed and enjoying the scene rather than frantically looking around to take the best ones! Creativity comes spontaneously and we should let it happen that way.

]]> By: Mark Highton Ridleyhttp://www.canonblogger.com/2009/05/06/creative-vision-or-no/comment-page-1/#comment-2072 Mark Highton Ridley Wed, 06 May 2009 15:07:38 +0000 http://www.canonblogger.com/?p=1448#comment-2072 I so much agree but from a slightly different point of view. Every event / situation gives its own opportunities. Just remember to not do the things you usually do, that everyone else does. Think scale, think extremes and constrain yourself to just one lens (maybe a good, multipurpose zoom - my fav is a 17-85mm image-stabilised one that is on my camera by default).If I were at the Eiffel Tower right now, I'd be looking for close-up points of view where the girders intersect in patternful ways; I'd be up-close and personal, looking for textures / peeling paint / rust; I'd be on my back to view things from a worms-eye point of view...With friends and family in tow, I'd pose them and use a v.narrow depth of field so the Eiffel Tower was thrown sharply out of focus. I might deliberately find a spot where I could pose them so it looks like they have it on their heads like a hat.On a tripod I might do multiple exposures of only those people taking photos of it (or pointing at it) and merge them into one in the digital darkroom.And during all this, I'd be observing, looking for that unusual pov / comp that speaks in a new way - if it's a monument or scene that has been "done to death" by photographers the world over then new shots will only come from the extremes. If you do what the all the other photographers do then you're going to get the same sort of shots -- so dare to be different!Sorry, turned into a bit of a ramble... Cheers, --Mark www.highton-ridley.co.uk I so much agree but from a slightly different point of view. Every event / situation gives its own opportunities. Just remember to not do the things you usually do, that everyone else does. Think scale, think extremes and constrain yourself to just one lens (maybe a good, multipurpose zoom – my fav is a 17-85mm image-stabilised one that is on my camera by default).

If I were at the Eiffel Tower right now, I’d be looking for close-up points of view where the girders intersect in patternful ways; I’d be up-close and personal, looking for textures / peeling paint / rust; I’d be on my back to view things from a worms-eye point of view…

With friends and family in tow, I’d pose them and use a v.narrow depth of field so the Eiffel Tower was thrown sharply out of focus. I might deliberately find a spot where I could pose them so it looks like they have it on their heads like a hat.

On a tripod I might do multiple exposures of only those people taking photos of it (or pointing at it) and merge them into one in the digital darkroom.

And during all this, I’d be observing, looking for that unusual pov / comp that speaks in a new way – if it’s a monument or scene that has been “done to death” by photographers the world over then new shots will only come from the extremes. If you do what the all the other photographers do then you’re going to get the same sort of shots — so dare to be different!

Sorry, turned into a bit of a ramble…
Cheers,
–Mark
http://www.highton-ridley.co.uk

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