nonfat photograph
Today we're going to make an outdoors, cheap, satisfying and a healthy non-photo.
Makes up to 36 servings.
Ingredients: A working camera loaded with any kind of film (digital camera, ok too) and some spare time.
Optional: an assistant
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- Leave filters, extra lenses, tripods and other equipment at home. Non-photography requires none of the fancy, expensive and commonly used by photographers, tools.
- Be sure to forget about any previous rule you have learned in class or read about in a book. There will be no rules to remember or follow while making your photograph.
- Combine the thrill of being on the move with your own born-with exploring eyes.
- Make sure to notice what's going on around you, preferably without getting involved. You don't need to change any of the given settings or wait for a special occurrence. Looking closely, you will notice, they are out there already.
- [And before we go on, a friendly advice: Before making your exposure make sure you know how to work the camera.]
- If you choose to make a picture of a person, this is where the optional assistant comes into the pictures and can be very useful. It's a common knowledge, while positioning the camera in front of them, people tend to drop everything they were doing beforehand, fix their hair, smile and stare at your camera. Assuming this is not the picture you wanted, the loyal assistant can step in and distract them from the camera's presence, hopefully with much success in getting them back to their doings before you asked them kindly to let you take their picture.
- Random street scenes usually require only being there at the right time and place. Anything that captures your interest would do, and while finding the position that seems right to you at the moment, keep in mind that the non-photography one and only rule is that anything goes. You don't need to worry anymore about the correct exposure or the right composition. Even a picture with a few sunspots on it can be a great one.
- You're done. You have just made your first non-photography photo.
already out there
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self distracted subjects :
the posing subjects
distracted by the assistant
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