June 3 - More on Looking for Missed Shots

I know many of you after reading the posts below are thinking there is no way I would lie down on the floor in the middle of a train station to photograph the painting on the ceiling. You don't have to. I believe we should push ourselves to get the more creative shot... for example, after my son's team won Regionals one year, all the parents were lined up taking photos of these boys being all serious with their medals around their necks. Well, I thought this was boring so I squatted down over to the side of the boys and started taking photos. Turning this way and that way, one by one the boys started looking my way and started to smile and say "Holder your mom is nuts, haha". Best team shots I ever took.

So lets start without the camera, I assume you are reading this on either a desktop computer or a laptop computer. But the laptop aside, now SAFELY stand up on your chair, bed, couch...wherever you have been sitting. Have someone help you keep steady if you need to... I don't want any accidents happening here. Now look down at where you were working. Now carefully sit back down. Did you see things differently? I did... I noticed I'm almost out of Diet Dr. Pepper! So what is you went to the top of a parking garage (I know, there are several in southwest Kanasas) and you looked down. Would your perspective of your surroundings look different? Could you come up with a different/unique photo?

What about the photo opportunity you saw as you were driving along one of the highways in Kansas/Oklahoma but you missed it because you either didn't have time to stop or were too embarrassed to stop. I saw 5 cows all lined up with their backsides against the fence. It looked like a photo for a calendar! But I didn't stop.

However, I had a student who he and his wife were driving along a country road when he noticed a big rattlesnake. So he pulled over, got his camera, walked down in the ditch and then proceeded to lie on his belly to photograph the rattle snake which was just a few feet from him curled up on the edge of the road! Now that is extreme photography and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone!

ASSIGNMENT #2:

I want you to simply take a couple days to look for photo opportunities that are unique to you.
It doesn't matter what, just jot a few photos you could have taken and email these ideas to me. Tell me why you did or did not take the photo.