Ebony and Ivory
Jan 31,2022 08:00
After last week's theme: Minimalist, this week we are presented with Black and White.
And we have been explicitly asked not to do any kind of color pop - keep it all in whites, greys, and blacks, please.
I can't photograph another Calla Lily; I won't.
And as great as I think the Macbeth-inspired shot from last week is, I can't just do a repeat of that.
How to push myself?
I need a new model.
But is doing something familiar and comfortable with a new model really doing something "new"?
How is it pushing myself to take an idea I've already done and redo it with another person?
I've decided a way to do something different is to copy something someone else did well. So I'm going to be putting together my version of a Bergman scene for a still photo. Death will play chess again!
And we have been explicitly asked not to do any kind of color pop - keep it all in whites, greys, and blacks, please.
I can't photograph another Calla Lily; I won't.
And as great as I think the Macbeth-inspired shot from last week is, I can't just do a repeat of that.
How to push myself?
I need a new model.
But is doing something familiar and comfortable with a new model really doing something "new"?
How is it pushing myself to take an idea I've already done and redo it with another person?
I've decided a way to do something different is to copy something someone else did well. So I'm going to be putting together my version of a Bergman scene for a still photo. Death will play chess again!