At 02:59 7/29/01, Charles Packard wrote:
I've been immersed in a programming project for nearly a year now and it
is becoming increasingly difficult to separate work from the rest of my
life. I do try and get away from it, but doing so leaves me tense and
sometimes feeling guilty that I'm not working.
[snip]
How do you shift gears? Or put another way-- What do you do to mentally and
emotionally prepare for making photographs?
Just wondering....
-Charles Packard
This is an interesting question, not one I've given much thought to.
First, congratulations on thinking about "making" photographs (versus
"taking" them).
I plan my photographic "treks" (sometimes no farther than the front/back
yard). This includes defining a "vision" of what I want to
make. Sometimes it's of a specific image, because I've been there
before. Other times, it's not a specific image, but to tell a story, or
capture the essence of an activity or location, however one defines the
essence of something (shape, texture, color, how it came to be, or its
purpose/actions related to its environs). Yet other times, it's
serendipity. The opportunity arises unexpectedly, such as the visit of one
of my wife's friends with her infant son. The interactions among the three
of them had me grabbing the OM-2S with 50/1.4, a T-32, flipping the head up
for bounce, and shooting over half a 36-exp roll of them playing with some
enormous physical therapy balls on the floor (inflated balls over 2 feet in
diameter). [Just got the K-64x24 of this back today and the yield was
unexpectedly high with about four excellent ones, one of which reminds me
of the last page of each issue of Life magazine.] Found when making
photographs the rest of the world is set aside; complete immersion in
camera and lenses, and intense thinking about what I'm doing with them to
capture what's around me.
-- John
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