Posts Tagged Vision
A few weeks ago I wrote a sarcastic post on Facebook bemoaning the 20+ photographers I had encountered at Coogee Ocean Pool that morning. Almost all the photographers had their cameras firmly mounted on rigid tripods, all lenses were pointed in the same direction and they were all chattering about how poor the light and conditions were. It reminded me that photography is about creativity...
A thousand photographers must have made countless photographs of the iconic 'Camel Rock' off the southern New South Wales coast of Australia. Some of these photographs are wonderful. It is always disconcerting to try and photograph a location where you know many have come before you. What could I do that might be even slightly different?
Conventional wisdom suggests, if you work hard at finding great locations and then you wait for beautiful light to happen, you should be able to make wonderful landscape photographs. It's an obvious plan. Right?
But what would happen, if we did the opposite?
Sometimes, an interesting photograph can be found in a different place from where you think you should look. While all eyes were on the Sydney 2013 fireworks ( and they were beautiful ) I thought an interesting subject could be found in the Sydney Harbour Bridge, without fireworks....
