3 Seperate Photo shoots in the last week or so as filled my inbox quite quickly. Each one them more community related connected to the village in some way. The first was an engagement shoot followed The next day by a 100th birthday celebration. Sadly, the person whose birthday was did not quite make it to that day however the party went ahead to celebrate our life anyway and was no less enjoyable for all that. Finally, our local museum held a celebration to Mark ATF anniversary of the end of World War II and I spent some time documenting that as well as being part of the overall organisation and running of the day.
In each case, there was a higher level of distraction from the actual business of photography itself and whilst I can work like this, I find it’s much harder than when I can detach myself from everything and immerse myself entirely on the business of photography. That having been said there are advantages as well and the trick I have to learned is when they are breaks from the actual process of taking photographs I need to really review where I left the camera settings when I last took a picture 15 20 30 minutes ago The light might have changed. My position will certainly have changed. When that process is seamless, it’s not a problem but forgetting to do it when you restart sometimes results in missed opportunities.
It’s a little bit like sport it’s so much easier to follow along with the action non-stop than to pick up on who’s doing what? What’s happening but if you leave for a while, the dynamics of the game may have changed.
I’ve also been trying to post to instagram again but keeping it reasonably minimal and not adding much of a caption other than to say where the photograph was taken. Historically, I’ve always tried to make some kind of narrative to it but noticed that rarely does it result in any comments that relate to what I’ve said and certainly makes no difference to the level of exposure or otherwise that the image gets. I’d really like to post more as a reel But that’s a whole separate level of creativity and I do not have a bank of reels to dip into. so that would all be creating new content. As I’m finding it hard trying to make videos for YouTube and that’s really where I I’m trying to focus right now.
The Hovercraft shot was taken at Southsea and is one of the shots added to Instagram this Past Week.