Journal February 23th

Journal

Monday
February 23th 2015


We were introduced to the 35mm SLR's and the Medium format camera. I prefer the SLR cameras and will most likely use one for my film photography as you can take more photos which will be useful when photographing moving people. Also the medium format cameras have to be stabilized to take a good photo, for example put on a wall or on a part of the body like the knee. I want to be able to see something happening and able to take a picture of it in the moment.

We also explored what a flaneur was and what we say a flaneur as. To help this I created a mind map and came up with a number of words related to flaneurs and or being a flaneur.

Here are some of the words:

Observing
Study
People
Personality
Creeping
Taboo
Moving
Capturing Instances
Moments
Accidents

Also in my research at the Library I came across a book called "Only in England", with street photography by Tony Ray-Jones. The photos were very interesting, but a page that got my attention the most was a photocopied page of his notebook which read:

Be more Aggressive
Get more Involved
Take simpler pictures
stay with the subject matter (be patient)
No middle distance
See if everything in the background relates to the subject matter
Vary Compositions and more Angles
Be more aware of Composition
Don't take boring Pictures
Watch camera shake
Don't shoot too much
Not all eye level
Get in Closer

I will try to use these notes to help me with my photographs.