Street Photography and Photographic Nutrition
Good day everybody! This is Chuck Jines with Grit Street Photography, and today I’m not in Chicago, I’m actually in a cemetery, in New Orleans, on Halloween. Just seems like the thing to do, you know? Since I’m in a cemetery I want to talk a little bit about something I call photographic nutrition.
Transcript:
Now you know today we all like to exercise, we like to eat well, and take care of ourselves. Because what we put into our bodies as far as food, has an effect on how we behave out in the world and how we perform. Well the same thing goes for visual and what we look at at what we spend time viewing.
WE all know that if we are always eating at fast food like McDonald’s, Wendy’s and places like that, not only do we get sick or unhealthy, we also lose sight of what it is to have a really nice steak dinner. You know what I mean? We we just don’t have any point of reference to tell what’s good and what’s bad. I’m calling this little video photographic nutrition with the magnum challenge. Because here is something that I have done.
I have change my routine. You know I wanted to get better as a photographer. I wanted to be inspired, I wanted to be challenged and I wanted to be inspired, I wanted to be challenged and ah there are so many days in our life. So I kind of cut out all the Facebook groups, the Flicker groups and stuff like that. Because to me in a lot of ways those are… or more fast food places as far as photos go. I am not saying that there can’t be good photos but in general those are consumer places consumer great photos kind of poor nutrition.
So I have been going to the Magnum website, I been going other for awhile but not religiously like I have been doing. Every morning here is what I do and I am putting the challenge to everybody else to kind of do the same and see what it does and ahh see how it does help your photography help you to have better vision. But what I do on the Magnum website; there is a page that has a list of all the Magnum photographers there is probably over an hundred of them there. When you click on a link and ahh it goes to each one of their portfolios. So every morning when I wake up and I’m having my coffee, rather than going to post some of my own stuff on Flicker, Facebook and stuff like that. I don’t post anything.
I go over to Magnum and look through those portfolios and really getting challenged and really getting inspired. You know the other day I was looking at a artist work there was a photograph separate there were like eight different type of street photos and one of them is using separate geometries using natural things within the environment to breakup the the scenes putting different people in there. Other was photographer there that had a kids playing at a park and it was just loaded with so many separate geometry.
Probably the most I have ever seen in a photo and he happen to have feet in one you know kids. Something to something in each one of those geometry and it was like wow how did you do that? So now when I’m walking around and I’m looking for separate geometry type photographs. You know rather than just having a pole with people on either side of it. I’m trying now to get two or three poles or a pole and a doorway and trying to get people in all those things and kind of make it deeper. Yeah try that.
You know I’m going to go through the whole Magnum site myself and then I’m going to do it again and then start consuming religiously just like exercising every morning or making the conscious effort to eat right well doesn’t come easy you have to force yourself a lot of time. Yeah! Photographic nutrition hey just want to let you know that in December I’m doing a street photography workshop right here in New Orleans I think it is the first weekend you’ll have to check the website. So if you are I Chicago and you want to stop in take you around show you my town and be sure to follow me on Twitter, follow me on YouTube. Come to the website leave comments, ask question whatever – but most of all keep shooting and be well.
New Orleans Street Photography Workshops and Photo Walks
Joshua Mann Pailet’s, A Gallery for Fine Photography, houses a collection of original prints that are even more exquisite than the collection located at the Art Institute of Chicago, in my opinion. I actually shed a tear while viewing the social documentary work of Sebastião Salgado. There is nothing like looking at a real black-and-white film print.