Photographer? Me?

[mbarrick]

I've posted most of my C10 pictues in a special gallery on Gothic BC (less a fair number from walking around during the day and going to the Art Insitute of Chicago that I will string out in this journal) and looking at them in comparison to nearly all of the other picture sites from the event, I have to say, my pictures are considerably better than most. That goes double for the fashion show Sunday night. Even though I have a low-end, ageing digital with a brutally slow write speed and the amateur models were often moving waaay to fast and failing to work the corners of the stage (I was stuck in a far corner with a bad view) I still managed to get decent, well illuminated, well framed, and interesting shots of nearly every costume. Only about 5% of the pictures were crap, another 10% or so were merely ordinary compared to all the others, and the other 85% are head and shoulders above average. I don't actually understand this. There were plenty of people there with with waaaaaay better gear, some of them were "real" photographers documenting the show, yet they couldn't pull off nearly as many good pictures. Somehow in all my fooling around with nightclub photos I've gotten good at it. During fashion shows often the models move away before my camera finishes writing the image to memory so I hardly ever more than one chance for a shot, good, bad or otherwise.

I wonder how I would do if I wasn't fighting against the limits of my camera all the time?

Comments

[cheekydevil.livejournal.com]

You have a very good eye with the camera, and are both techically and creatively apt. This is a pretty damn rare combination of skills, even for pro photographers! Most have two out of three, but few have all of them. Yeah, your pictures kick ass!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

You have experience with the venue type , you have expeience with YOUR camera , you also know the idosyncracies of the subjects. Probably this is why you are good at photographing them.

If national geographic sent you to Paupa New Gueinnie to photograph tree frogs with film cameras... they probably wouldn't turn out as well as your nightclub shots.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Fuck you.

[valerian.livejournal.com]

LOL!

;)