First Thoughts

My first thoughts are that I like what I am reading. When, in my case photographing, you should always keep going. Don’t second guess whether or not what you are photographing is going to make a good photograph. I actually have found myself second guessing what I should be taking pictures of. You can’t make it a chore to take pictures. You have to have an open mind about it. I have to agree with Cameron when she says that if you are going to write you can’t be specific about what you are going to be writing about, otherwise you will draw a blank. I found myself to be stuck in this situation. I had an idea of what I wanted to photograph but when I sat down and really thought about was I was actually going to take pictures of I froze up. I got to the point where I just had to take pictures so I just went out and started snapping away. Next thing you know I start coming up with possible ideas for my subject I wanted to do. So now when I photograph I try not to think about what I want to do I just go out and start shooting, sometimes ideas hit me like a ton of bricks and other times still nothing. Now with the all the photographing I have been doing I find myself with not only one but two possible subjects.

Sandbox

I can see where this concept could be helpful, for you would be getting other people’s opinions about your work. Yet on the same hand I can see where you could go without. I like the idea of making your work public to get others opinions to help you better your work. But on the other hand what if you were going for a specific look and you got that look in that photo, but some of the public tried to tell you how to change it to make it look totally different? Then again it’s just their opinions and you could easily forget them, or so you would like to. You could also just keep those photos in your personal sketchbook. Also you are, or should be, just experimenting right now to better improve yourself for the future. I especially like the ‘Fail with fun content’, it makes sense why you should have fun with your playground, if you take it too seriously you can easily burn yourself out trying to make it “perfect” on the first attempts. Once again you have to experiment. I sometimes still find myself questioning whether this concept would truly be helpful. I do see where the playground could be very very helpful, but is it really necessary? In the end though I think it is something to try and see how it goes.