Hollywood Squares

Sunday, 25 January 2009

I FINALLY took the big camera out with me this weekend as Andy and I spent a lazy Saturday afternoon strolling around the Silverlake/Hollywood neighborhoods of LA.  I decided before we left that I would shoot with some intent on this venture because, I don't know about you, but I can get easily overwhelmed when I am let loose on a city to just take photos.  The task can be overwhelming to a little perfectionist like me.  Where do I even start?

In many ways portraiture is so much simpler than environmental photography (at least I think so).  When you set out to capture a personality there is a clearly delineated subject.  You can accent that subject anyway you like, but your focus is narrow and the task is clear.  Environmental photography is broad. Very, very broad.  And there is so much pressure to really see everything around you.  Add a crazy dog and frustrated husband to the mix and you've got yourself a party!

It's the off season for weddings in most parts of the country right now, particularly in Ohio where the weather turns into a big mean ugly ogre for a good 5.5 months (at least), so that means I spend the majority of my working hours designing the wedding albums that clients are just now getting around to ordering. One thing I have discovered as I've been working on page layout after page layout is that I am not so good at 'seeing' the square crop.  That probably sounds really weird to those of you who don't spend hours obsessing over these kinds of things, but I'm sure those that are acquainted with the fun-filled world of design know what I'm talking about.  I see photographs in a 35mm frame almost always.  One of the things I hate most about my job is cropping a full frame image (4x6) into the ever popular 8x10.  It's painful for me to chop those extra bits off.  Imagine the anguish I feel when faced with the task of chopping an image into a square.  It's bad.  I hem and haw, try it this way and that way, zoom it in and out until I drive myself nuts. So today I decided to combat my little problem by shooting with the square crop in mind.  Verdict: I actually started to like it.  I'm still not feeling particularly good at it, but I suppose that only comes with practice.

So with much trepidation, I present to you my Hollywood Squares.  I would love to hear what you guys think since this was an experiment meant to help me develop some skillz. Holla’ back, yo.  

(Not entirely sure why that last bit went ghetto but I’m going with it).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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