pushing for vision

There’s Looking.

There’s Seeing.

And then there’s Vision.

I believe you need to look around before you can see. And, you need to spend time seeing before you can create a vision with your photography. This is a post about an exercise I did and ask people to do to expand their vision. There are many variations on forcing yourself to study an area until you’ve come close to exhausting the photographic possibilities. In this case the ‘assignment’ was to photograph this subject without moving more than 5 feet in any direction for a minimum of 30 minutes to an hour.

Having a capable camera with you at all times helps to define your vision. The low profile and light weight of the micro 4/3rds system makes it easy for me to be more creative. In this case various Lumix lenses and the Lumix GX8 were used in the capture…

Here are contact sheets from the shoot followed by some of my favorites from the shoot…

chess contact sheet

Contact sheet one images are SOOC (straight out of Camera)

chess contact sheet

Contact sheet 2

chess contact sheet

Contact sheet 3… There were about 4 plus contact sheets all together but you get the idea!

Below were a few of the images I worked up from the session followed by a Time-Lapse of the shoot.

chess board photo

Black and white turned this into a very graphic feel and tells the story of ‘Place’

chess board photo

Aerial view with fish eye lens

chess board photo

Mood piece with some NIK Color Pro 4 FX. Dreamy…

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Then it was on to the story of the Knights.

Many other images were captured  during the ‘assignment’ but these were the ones I thought I’d share.

Time-lapse showing the shoot shot with Lumix FZ1000 mounted on tripod capturing an image every three seconds. Processed in camera to MP4. Very cool feature!
Push yourself to expand your photography vision.
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Yours in creative Photography,     Bob