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you and your iPhone

26/11/2014

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some exercises for you to try

1 arrows of desire - next time you see something you might feel tempted to buy, or wish you could own - photograph it instead. look at it after in your phone and congratulate yourself for 'owning it'.

2 catch the wind - on a windy day photograph a flag or a waving blossom. take more than one shot. shoot when your subject is not where you want it - if you try to shoot what you see it will be gone. shoot into the future

3 make it move -
take a photograph of something stationary but move the camera while you take it. take more than one shot. allow the accidents. look in a week's time and, if you like, discard what does not appeal to you.

4 shoot up - no not with a needle - point your camera to the sky - through leaves, towards jet trails

5 pretend you don't know what it it - shoot your subject as if you have no idea what it is. maybe you don't even know where it starts and ends.

6 take a bad photo - shoot something really dull, shoot your feet.

7 frame it 'wrongly'

8 shoot out the corner of your eye
- really just hold the camera up at the edge of your vision and fire

9 pay attention to diagonals -
for no good reason

10 listen for a sound - turn and shoot whatever's there without looking to check what it is first

some guide lines:
a soften your  eyes
b if you find yourself idly staring, shoot
c be innocently open to what you your attention is drawn to - opinonlessly shoot


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Richard link
2/12/2014 03:40:43 pm

What a superb list of ideas. I really like them. They make me think differently about what I'm looking at, which is always a good thing.

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