simplicity

in Photography by admin — February 9, 2010 at 11:56 | 0 comments

I read a quote somewhere that because of the advent of digital photography everyone and their brother and sister, were now becoming “photographers” so that the mantra for anyone wanting to be a photographer is “you’ve got to be different.”  To those without experience however different is a loaded word.  How different can you be? How different should you be?  How different do you want to be?  Obviously all this is determined by the assignment at hand and if its for a client are they willing to work with you and allow you creative freedom etc.

That being said different is all good and well but nothing beats the simplicity of creating just an image of someone.  Several weeks ago we had a flickr meet on guam and it was great a bunch of photogs with one idea in mind get together, shoot a model, and have fun doing it!  This photo of Jasmin is the 3rd frame I took of her… no planning, no idea who she was – we had just met, but i think at that point we had already connected, a trust and also because I was helping pose her for the other guys, some of whom had never shot a model before.  It goes the point that I always make, rapport is everything when working with a model.

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II [i'm not a canon shooter i just borrowed a friends for that particular shot well there were 3 shots in all]

F-stop: 5.6

Exposure time: 1/60

ISO speed: 400

Exposure bias: 0

Focal length: 350mm

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