Lighting Workshop Three

I jokingly called myself the "Queen of Innovation" today in the workshop, but there was some truth behind it. Less emphasis on the queen part (I don't actually think I'm the queen of anything) and more emphasis on the innovation part. I wasn't creating robots that perform surgeries or some kind of food source that could provide for every starving person in the world, but I was finding ways to create art out of cardboard and clothing hangers, and that's pretty cool too.

Right now the workshop isn't about the photo for me. It's more about the procedure. I'm not really working for a gorgeous photo (although its a pretty great reward when I finally get to shooting and see how pretty some photos actually come out). I'm working in order to better understand how to create the scenario that a gorgeous photo comes from. I know they may sound like the same thing, but they're really not. There's a difference from spending an hour setting up lighting for a picture that you want to have come out to be really pretty and spending an hour setting up lighting so you understand what makes a photo come out really pretty. The first mindset comes after more experience, like maybe you should start thinking this way when you're about 4,000 hours into something. Right now I'm having a lot of fun with just having the lighting be the accomplishment - it's like a puzzle! I can't wait for the day where the lighting becomes routine and the photo is the real prize.