Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Lighting Workship Number Five
What I loved about today's assignment (other then the adrenaline rush of a deadline) was that I could take a picture of the same thing 10,000 times and have it look completely different each time. This is true for all photography - not just newspaper photography - but it became really clear to me today when your objective was to spin the subject a certain way and all you can really change is the angle. Lighting, location, and even time, is completely out of your control. But with a 30 degree change in the angle of your wrist, you can have the auditorium seating have a whole new meaning.
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It's amazing, isn't it? The amount of control you have within a situation where there is apparently no control at all.
ReplyDeleteEverything is like this, you know. This... this is the weird, spiritual side of art, of creativity. It is Zen at times. Like in a good improv - things happen out of your control, and yet you control them. You let yourself out of control yet you remain in control - that is the formula for improvisation, isn't it?
These things, they're all the same. To see that is powerful.
Does this make sense? It's one of those things that cannot be talked about directly.