Think of making a photograph that has really strong visual impact. Try to make a photograph that has really strong visual impact. Make a photograph that has really strong visual impact. Realise that it has virtually no visual impact. Fail. Repeat. What the fu-loop?
The more often we do one thing the same way, the more difficult it becomes for us to think of new ways of doing it. What makes for really strong visual impact? Things that are beautiful, disgusting/unnerving, sexual, completely batshit or any combination of the above. That encompasses about everything in the world except things you should not be photographing. But wait, there’s one more thing. Legendary technique.
So what is going to help you thinking of new ways of doing stuff?
Knowing that you will hold on to your technique when you will have absolutely no f#$%(@! clue about what you want to do or how to do it. You will hold on so hard that they couldn’t separate you two with the jaws of life. Everybody does it all the time. Everybody. So spend time improving it. Make it legendary. Know your lenses, cameras, DOFs, colors, lights, angles, compositions, softwares, your everythings.
But oh, you might raise your finger at me and say, somebody said that technique is something that blah blah blah. Don’t care.
Slideshow a hundred thousand photographs at a tenth of a second per image. Now! Go! Do it!
Tomorrow: Legendary technique. Lenses.
