This
post is discussion about where and how an idea for a photograph is developed.
In
my case I collect scraps of ideas, fragments of things I find around me, which
I store in my mind. Sometimes just
thumbing through an art magazine or a trip through an art gallery gives me
ideas of images I would like to create.
If I am out walking down a street I become immersed in all the people
and things around me. I find that I try
to see things from the perspective of a child, suspending all preconceptions
and seeing my subject for the first time.
I basically see subjects as lines, shapes and forms and how they
interact with the light. It is curiosity
about a particular object that is in front of me and how would I present it in
a group of photographs.
Recently
a friend left me some desert debris that he had picked up from walks in the
desert. I had these pieces on a shelf
gathering dust not really knowing what to do with them...the other day I
grabbed some of the pieces, some extra props, camera and some window light and
went to work photographing them. I found
my mind twisting and turning with images flashing before me as I photographed
the pieces...within a period of several hours I had collected a good number of
images on the camera’s SD card. The next
step was to go through the images keeping and discarding those that I didn’t
feel worked. The resulting images below
are what I produced within that period of time using window light and a
reflector.
Photography
is really an art form that requires no more than seeing what is before you; in
my case it is self-absorption with the subject before me. I only stop shooting when I cannot see my
subject any longer...I have exhausted all the possible angles and
compositions. This process applies to
everything that comes before the camera and me.
I can be contacted at nymacc@gmail.com
