Give Yourself An Assignment
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- In this video i talk about the importance of giving yourself an assignment in order to see the world in a new light. I talk about some of my own assignments as well as some great bodies of work from famous photographers of the past.
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Hi Travis, Your message resonates with so many of us. We are on your frequency. Thanks for the homework. Look forward to taking on a couple of projects in the streets of Sydney Australia.
Great to see a video that’s about PHOTOGRAPHY and not about KIT. I’ve just unsubscribed from most bloggers as it’s all about cameras and pixels and all that shit. Keep it going and the idea of an assignment is a great ones. Thanks.
Your an amazing guy to know about photography and a good understanding for help on the subject... Iike your style too.
Nice video. Great content and advice. I'm sick of lens and camera review videos. I tell people all the time that photographs need a place within a body of work. Otherwise they are just one offs and no one will care about them. Photographs are like sentences and very rarely is a single sentence going to captivate anyone. Multiple sentences need to be grouped together in the form of an essay or a book to form a complete idea.
Totally agree, following an assignment helps the photography and the photographer, you need to think about your pictures as a whole and not as a single work, trying to be consistent. It's challenging but meaningful, much better than producing a single image I think.
Damn good to see you back man
I'm glad you're back! You're videos help a lot of us!
This just gave me so much inspiration. I'm definitely gonna start doing a photo project for the new year. THanks man!
i ran into this channel 2 years ago, im glad its still goin on!
You are definitely the "Go to guy" when it comes to photography... especially FILM... glad you are back... You are straight forward and factual.
Travis, two days after watching this a great assignment fell in my lap that I might not have recognised as such last week. Looking forward to getting to work, thanks again.
There is a very interesting aspect about the way "The Americans" is edited that was shown to me by one of my photographic mentors, which I would probably have had a really hard time noticing by myself, and it somehow explains why the book, not just the individual pictures, is so good and stands out in the history of photography. Every picture is related to the previous one and the next one by some element. It could be the decreasing amount of people in the picture, or the inverted balance of black and white surfaces, or the object depicted being draped in a piece of cloth. That principle provides the book with a kind of free-floating structure for which it is know as a relative of the "stream of consciousness" style in literature. A kind of narrative, in the end, but an intrinsically photographic one.
Travis - this was a great video. I have been through a dry spell in my photography with a new job and such. Keep it up dude.
john Lee thank you so much! Hopefully this motivates you to pick up an assignment over the summer. Thanks for warching!
Hi, Just want to let you know that your videos keep me inspired and give me good vibes for shooting film, It's strange but I replay your videos quite often just to hear you talk about shooting film and photography, ;), very welcome, and looking forward to your next talks.
Welcome back man
Your presentations are always very peaceful.
crispin8888 lol, i think he is known for his rants
The Cantrell Project True. But in a gentle way. 😉
Inspiring and compelling presentation, thanks for posting.
Welcome back man, good info thanks
Creativity is like breathing, sometimes you have to breathe in. If you breathe out too long you, well, expire? 🙂
Good to see you bank Travis. Your videos seem to inspire me. I would love to do an assignment. Finding the time is a problem though and unfortunately I don’t live in a town that would inspire anyone photographically. But I went to London a few weeks ago and photographed the protests which make for interesting photos. Many protests in London at the moment so documenting them would make a good assignment.
Fonejacker it sounds like you just found something to focus on. Think of what you would need to do to tell a story with five images. How could you capture the feeling of these protests in five individual images. Sometimes I approach my projects in this way to really capture images with substance. Before I shoot I even think “will this be one of the five story telling images?” Usually it isn’t and I wait. Although limited time is always a factor just remember it only takes a fraction of a second to make an image ✌🏻
ForesthillFilmLab Thank you for the advice. That is exactly what I tried to do, I took more than five photos on slide film and still not seen them myself yet. Obviously everyone else had digital cameras but who’s gonna be looking at their digital files in 50 years? But I figured protests are a great thing to document because they are very of the time politically and something that may be of interest to people in the future. I used to go London to take photos of landmarks but I think photos of people make for a much more interesting photo.
I have questions about your frankenstax and polaroid 110a conversions, are there other (cheaper) lenses I could use for the frankenstax conversion, and where can I find a 3D print file for the back of the 110a conversion? I have two polaroid 250s, a polaroid 440, an ee100 special, a pathfinder, and the 800 I really want to get these cameras back up and running so I dont just have a bunch of paper weights.
Cracks me up you lost the mouse so instead of buying another you just stopped using the computer. For months 🤪
terry breedlove haha well the computer in my darkroom still worked for scanning so I really didn’t need one for anything else. It seems kinda bizarre that I couldn’t use my computer for months but it sure is nice to have it back haha
A couldn't go more than a few hours before heading out and getting another one. Or pay amazon to deliver next day
Great to see you back!!!! yes this winter was very boring!! time to get out and shoot,,keep the vids coming,always a pleasure to watch!!!
Just started a new project after a five year break.
You are back
Have you ever shot with Adox CMS 20? Or other ultra high grain films?
I'm shooting all the local landmarks, historic and important places in my community to prepare and present a portfolio to the local museum. They will have these ace-quality shots for the historical researchers of the future. Maybe I can sell prints.
following you on instagram also your awesome! (@a.r.t.photo)
great video as always! what do you think of Diane Arbus' work?
I'm going to buy The Americans as soon as this video ends.
Yay good to see you back dude 👍 Yeah personal projects are the only thing keeping me interested at the moment. I find it strange though how some images become iconic, who decides this? I think like in art, it's all subjective because some of these so called masters I don't find their work strong or appealing :/
Richard Rollinson - My Analog Life that’s a great question. I don’t know what makes these greats what they are today. I feel like in a time before the internet it was up to photographers to show us another side of things. These days with so many photographers in the world I’m not sure what it would take to stand out from the rest of the pack and have “iconic” images
Hey Travis, i dont know ive i Missed it some Time, but i would love to see how you make These Little Prints you do Every year.
Peace from Germany :)
janotan segit I’m not sure I understand what you mean? What little prints?
Maybe he means Zines
Those you keep in the wooden boxes..
janotan segit ah okay I’ll have to show how it’s done sometime
Love the Metallica analogy
you're that strapped for cash that you cant buy a new mouse? Or a used one at goodwill?
lordoftheflings haha whoa had nothing to do with my cash flow. I actually got a mouse for it but it didn’t work and I was unable to configure it because I had no mouse! Haha
Glad to see you are alive
not making any more videos?
Great video thank you!
Some books I think you would enjoy (if you don't already have them) are"Pictures From the Country" by Richard W Brown and "Mountain Light" by Galen Rowell. Both use Nikon gear and Brown uses Nikon F2's.
Travis where are you?
thanks for the update, just a question. how do you store your unexposed /fresh film? i.e. for short term, long term. thanks, maybe you can mention in your next video.
Good stuff! i like it.
Good to see you back Travis..always inspiring to watch your videos..best wishes from England.
Thanks for giving inspiration. I struggled the last few month eith my photography... To shoot with no asignments seems to waste Film sometimes. Great video!
Hey! Just curious, do you have an instagram page that I can follow?? I've recently started shooting film and I would love to follow it if you do!!
Nicole yea I sure do! @killindreams
Send me a follow and I’ll follow ya back!
Thanks so much! Just followed you :)
I am glad to see you are back. I sent you an email. I am really interested in using your lab moving forward but I have not heard back from you.
Let me know if you received the email if not I can resend.
Ryan
I've got an idea. Yes it was an inspiring video. I'm curious as to whether you shoot color film or not?
Oh my goodness I have done that that animals on the side of the road I have a series of pictures with a decaying dog on the side of a Boone Hill Road
Welcome back Travis! I’ve been waiting for your return. Glad to see you.
would love to see the images of the people in sacramento and the dead animals
brittany myra I do have the negatives somewhere. I would have to dig them up and re scan them because there is no way the original scans still exist on my computer. I planned to include them but didn’t have em on hand
ForesthillFilmLab ah bummer! well if you do ever get to them someday id be happy to see them
I needed this rn. I lost a lot of motivation over the winter and hopefully this will help me develop a new drive.
Check the printer for mouse terds. Welcome back.
The I-Phone as destroyed street photography.........
Now it's been 2 months again. Come back!
Glad you’re back, when’s your birthday so we can send you a mouse :)
I’m glad you’re back with more inspiration for all of us.
Good to see you're back! :)
Is this shot on a GoPro?
William Staniewicz no I use a D7000 and a nikkor 16mm fisheye
You were missed. Welcome home!
Damn man so good to see you back!
Glad you're back!
Good to see you back...
Happy to see you back!
Robert Frank is Swiss made.