Luis, thanks for an encouragement, I am currently looking at/reading still life photographs that others have done and try to understand, as you say, passion in their arrangements and how I can benefit from their experience. I am not going to give up on this, that is for sure! thanks, achal ----- Original Message ----- From: "luis" <chilled_delirium@mailstation.com> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@ase-listmail.rit.edu> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:16 AM Subject: Re:RE: Gallery Impressions on 13 August 2002 > > > From: Achal Pashine [mailto:achal@stanford.edu] > > > > > > Hi Greg, > > > I feel awkward about the arrangement of the bottles too, and > > > most of my > > > still life attempts suck! (thanks for being open about it). > > Greggie concurs--- > > >My own attempts at arranging still lifes have led me to the conclusion >that it far, far easier to spot a good arrangement than to make one. >I've never been able to make one. Hey maybe that's the way its done. >You take a bunch of crap and repeatedly throw it on a table until you >come up with a good arrangement. <snipped insanities> > > It is difficult, and Greggie is right: It often helps to introduce an element of chance in your composition. It also helps if you feel something about the objects being photographed. For example, > Achal's bottles....I just didn't see anything that spoke to me of feeling > or passion there. It was like a technical exercise. Now, make one > of those bottles one you consumed on your wedding night, another > the one drank the last time you saw a friend, or the day you went sober (rhetorically speaking) and I think you'll see the bottles differently. If you picked them up in the alley, then think DESIGN. > Study design. Look at Carl Chiarenza's paper constructions, Bauhaus > designs, any design magazine, etc. This is what happens when you > attempt to become a stylist and art director all at once. > It's a new hat, and if you suck at it, dig in for the learning curve. > > --- Luis >
