Digital Photo

Photographs of buildings, inanimate objects – even people, all too often have a flat, dull, ‘staged’ feeling to them. However, capturing someone or something reacting to an external action offers far more dramatic possibilities e.g. commuters in a hailstorm, a football player being tackled, flags in the wind etc. Imagine how much weaker the above images would be if the element of reaction to something was taken away.

Challenge stereotypes. It’s great to have some thematic ideas before you start shooting so you know - while allowing for serendipitous ‘magic’ of course - what you are after. Playing around with stereotypes and subverting them can be pretty cool. Some basic examples might be an excessively madeup blond ‘bimbo’ on a train reading The Wall Street Journal, a priest reading The Joy of Sex or a rich and successful celebrity Formula One driver using a bicycle or terrible old wreck of a car to get around etc.

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