I recently have had the honor of shooting at a local "hang out" for my church.
The District
It's a great place to hang out with good friends, listen to some music, have a coffee, dance maybe, and try and shoot people… ehh, with a camera.
The recent theme for the evening was "A Masquerade Ball". They had "ballroom" style dancing (complete with dance instructors) and of course those cool masquerade masks! A great night!
There's a problem I've found when you show up to a coffee shop / dance party / music lounge… Yeah… To get that cool neat atmosphere they drop the lights down low and when the party jumps to ELEVEN - laser lights galore and smoke machines...
Very impressive - unless you have a camera in your hand and want something better than just a simple point-and-shoot shot with no background in it and boring yucky flash - or something that resembles The Blair Witch Project and epilepsy combined.
The District
It's a great place to hang out with good friends, listen to some music, have a coffee, dance maybe, and try and shoot people… ehh, with a camera.
The recent theme for the evening was "A Masquerade Ball". They had "ballroom" style dancing (complete with dance instructors) and of course those cool masquerade masks! A great night!
There's a problem I've found when you show up to a coffee shop / dance party / music lounge… Yeah… To get that cool neat atmosphere they drop the lights down low and when the party jumps to ELEVEN - laser lights galore and smoke machines...
Very impressive - unless you have a camera in your hand and want something better than just a simple point-and-shoot shot with no background in it and boring yucky flash - or something that resembles The Blair Witch Project and epilepsy combined.
So… this grab-bag of fun can be a headache - and a real blessing when you nail that shot. And there's the problem… you are going to drop the ball more than you get the touchdown. If not, send me an email, I need all the help I can get!!! I think I snapped off about 200 frames of digital that night. Maybe 50 of them are really useable.
Maybe…?
Out of those… probably only 10 are really the "keepers"… You know, the ones that you are really proud of that if you were trying to start off in the world of photography you'd add to your portfolio (for now at least)…
And there in lies that blessed catchy-twenty-two…
You show off the 10 great pictures and people immediately wonder - "Wait a minute, he was here for 3 hours shooting everything… he ONLY got 10 pictures?? Where's the picture I know he took of me dancing…???" Etc, etc, etc…
...Or…
You throw up 200 pictures (most of which give people nauseous headaches instantly) and you get deemed as "that guy". You know, the person who spent the gross national income of a small South American country on camera gear… and your shots look like Ray Charles was at the helm. Full steam ahead captain, I can't see the iceberg anyway - I'm blind!
You show off the 10 great pictures and people immediately wonder - "Wait a minute, he was here for 3 hours shooting everything… he ONLY got 10 pictures?? Where's the picture I know he took of me dancing…???" Etc, etc, etc…
...Or…
You throw up 200 pictures (most of which give people nauseous headaches instantly) and you get deemed as "that guy". You know, the person who spent the gross national income of a small South American country on camera gear… and your shots look like Ray Charles was at the helm. Full steam ahead captain, I can't see the iceberg anyway - I'm blind!
Heed the warning… and suffer the questions… Only show your best work! Maybe even the "good" shots if that's the case - but leave the blurred, the missed focus, the poor lighting, the bad cropping all out the picture (get the pun… ha-ha). Right now at least one person is laughing at that joke… Ehh… anyway…
If you want people to remember your work as "good" or "great"… Only show them "good" or "great" pictures! Leave the boring pictures to everyone else!
- jermz
www.jermzphotography.zenfolio.com
1 comment:
Great!! cant wait for whats ahead!
-Rogz-
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