Creative Photography Lab

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Creative PhotograP hy Lab

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• PAS and DSLR: Set to auto

everything. This is one of the

few assignments you can

leave your ash on.

• smartphone: Cover your

screen but leave a gap for

the take-photo button.

Settings

One of the things I miss about the old

days of shooting film is the mystery of not

knowing what I would get until the film

was developed. The instant gratification of

digital photography gives us the impression

that the camera records reality, making

memories before they are even past tense.

In this assignment, we separate the act

of taking photographs from the act of

evaluating photographs.

Walk with a

Blind

Camera

“ Discovery consists of

seeing what everybody has

seen, and thinking what

nobody has thought.”

— Albert Sze nt-Gyorgy

Bresson

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LAB

1. Grab your camera and some masking

tape. Cover your screen with the tape.

2. Set your camera to auto everything and

take one shot every five minutes for an

hour. Use a watch or a timer and try to

shoot at exactly five-minute intervals.

3. This assignment should be done all at

once and works best if you are taking

a walk.

4. Try not to plan or think out each shot.

Just pick up the camera, shoot, and put

it down. Resist the urge to peek; how

does this affect your shooting?

5. If you have photo-editing capability, put

all twelve images on one page in

sequence as a collage. How does the

time lag between taking and viewing the

shots affect the whole experience?

Let’s Go!

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Walk with a

Blind

Camera

4. Try not to plan or think out each shot.

Just pick up the camera, shoot, and put

it down. Resist the urge to peek; how

does this affect your shooting?

5. If you have photo-editing capability, put

all twelve images on one page in

sequence as a collage. How does the

time lag between taking and viewing the

shots affect the whole experience?

Let’s Go!

I really like this relaxed and spontaneous set of images by Natalie Love.

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