On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > While waiting for my backdrop to dry at the laundromat, I had fifteen minutes > to kill, so I went for a short photo walk. On my way back, I realized that > the fast majority of my photography is mostly "finding photos" rather than > "making photos" where I set out with a particular idea planned out. > > I'm curious how often the people on this list work from even a rough plan, > versus just going out and seeing what they find.
Okay, but seriously, I'm mostly unplanned in terms of I never know where I'll go. Except when I head out to the lake to take nature stuff. Still, things are only loosely planned insofar as I never know what animals or plants I'll see. I guess I plan to the extent that I take different equipment with me for nature stuff as opposed to urban stuff. Actually, I did plan something yesterday. There was a poster/ad in a subway station for a TV spy series that had a guy pointing a gun. The day before I took a photo of someone walking in that station and in the background the gun was not quite pointed at the pedestrian's head. So I thought I'd go to the same spot and consciously get a shot with the gun pointed "just right" at some unsuspecting passerby's head. They took the poster down overnight. I think there's a lesson there, but I'm not sure what it is, cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
