Creativity Workshop – Being Selective, a test.

Here it is, my first video post on A Tenuous Blog. Thanks to the fine folks at TechSmith for making this possible – their Camtasia Studio screen recording software made this easy and fun to put together.

More explanation on the video after the jump. . .

I headed down to Confluence Park in Denver, Colorado to practice the exercises for a Denver Photowalk Group meetup I’ll be leading on January 30th. The workshop is called Being Selective and is based on one of the lessons in David duChemin’s e-book “Ten”.

The idea of the workshop is to investigate why we create images – what draws us to a subject to photograph and how we then communicate that “thing” in our images. It consists of two exercises:

1. Take 100 images in an hour, push your creativity but don’t self edit your work.

2. Make 3 to 5 images in one hour and focus on making the best images of your subject that you can. No hedging.

The idea is to get us to think about what will make the strongest image before we press the shutter instead of shooting non-stop and looking for a keeper in post-processing.

I strayed, once again, from the “formal” lesson plan in that my first hour was spent on one subject, the Speer Boulevard Bridge. In our exercise on the 30th we won’t necessarily need to stick on one subject (although I found it useful to have that focus).

I also used only one lens (my 50mm f/1.4) which limited my ability to get creative with the subjects.

My second hour (turned out to be 45 minutes) was spent photographing the Millennium Bridge Mast. I’m much happier with the more focused images than the first.

If you’re interested in coming down to the workshop visit the Denver Photowalk Group site and register. If you can’t make it to the workshop go out and try this exercise on your own, I think it was great fun and made me think about what I was trying to capture with my images.

Cheers – Alex

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