The photographic panda; eats, shoots and leaves. Now that I've hashed that poorly conceived joke together I'll explain what I've been thinking about.
I did a shoot yesterday trying to get enough photos that I was happy with to make a worthy first set for the wonderful other half. Needless to say it didn't go well, in my opinion at least. I do find I'm my own worst critic because I want to improve as much as possible but even by those standards I really should have done better. I think a part of me thought that I could just walk into this situation, take a couple of snaps, and the model would do all the work I needed for it to go well. Why this part of my brain ignored the majority that was shouting at it that having a camera and pressing the shutter doesn't make you a photographer, well maybe it was just wishful thinking.
We're having another go on Thursday at a hotel room which will hopefully provide an interesting and unfamiliar setting enough for my creative side to get going. In the mean time I'm going to spend my spare time learning as much as I can. Studying other's work, watching tutorials on composition, learning how to tell my subject to pose. I've got less than a week but I like the challenge.
I also rely on my equipment too much. I keep buying things in a vain hope it's going to make me better. Well, we'll see...
It's time to stop doing nothing and thinking I'm going to be able to compete. It's time to put away my panda ways; think and do more when I'm on a shoot.
Peace,
J x