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Panels AND Process – not just for Distinctions….
Panels AND Process – not just for Distinctions…. Joe Houghton
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Dublin-based Joe Houghton takes many great shots, but that’s just the starting point for producing a great panel of images.
Are panels a part of your normal creative expression with your photography? Or are they something you primarily associate with ‘getting your L’ or other distinctions? Are they a ‘dark art’ you haven’t really explored as yet - something that you maybe see more advanced photographers doing but which seem a bit of a challenge?
experience which - I find - adds another dimension to my thinking and appreciation of the images I make.
If you’d like to come along for a few minutes with me today, I’d like to share my image making process, and explore the idea of using panels as an added step to our normal workflow as photographers, of any experience level, when making our images. An added
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For many years now I’ve made it a practice to become more conscious of the process and flow of making my images. Perhaps as I get older and appreciate time passing more, this is a natural progression?
The first stage of this process for me is planning for a shoot, and by shoot, I mean any kind of photographic outing, be it a walk in the park with Penny and the children, a day out to the coast for long exposure work, a night walk
with students or even a client shoot. What lens(es) will I take, what kind of images do I plan to make today? I almost never leave home with more than 2 lenses anymore - gone are the days when I loaded up a heavy backpack with all my gear ‘just in case’. But I may need my tripod, some filters and a remote release for instance, or I may not. Nowadays I find myself being far more intentional and accepting of the constraints that my choice of lens and equipment bring to the shots I can capture. I find that my inner eye is more sharply focused when I have self-imposed constraints such as shooting with just a 50mm prime, or a wide angle 12mm. DIGIT Magazine 2022 Issue 2
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