Since the last post; I have managed to get a place on Photo24, so the end of June will see me tramping the streets of London.
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| Pop that spot |
I made a trip to Dublin but didn't shoot a great deal, mainly because it was a family holiday and the weather wasn't that great.
I also had another try at 'Workshops', this time over on Google+. There are a great many photographers on G+ and some have banded together to form what is called the The G+ mentorship program for photographers. The mentorship I was on was called finding your vision: street photography.
The way it works is that a community is set up and each week for a period of eight weeks, you are given assignments by the teacher who has experience of that particular genre. For each week you then post a selection of images and then receive feedback.
As we all know most people don't like to be critical of others images, so feedback can be a bit skewed. I don't want to bash this like the other 'workshop' I did, as I did get something out of this one, and it was free and the people running it give up they time freely.
I just think I'm not cutout for doing workshops, I'm not even sure that street photographers need workshops, did Cartier-Besson, Winogrand, Erwitt, Friedlander, Leiter, Meyerowitz, Arbus, Levitt the list is endless, ever go on street photography workshops.
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| NOT a double exposure, reflections in a window |
Also for a bit of fun I have joined in was a film challenge, its a double exposure challenge, there are about 14 people involved. The idea is that you are paired up with another photographer and you both shoot on the same roll of film. I have already shot my 36 exposures and have send the roll to my partner, I'm just waiting on him to shoot his and then get the roll developed.
