Anyone who sees "The Invention of Dr. NakaMats" will understand why its director, Kaspar Astrup Schroder, is asking audience members to pose with two fingers toward his camera after a screening of the movie at the Blue Note in Columbia, Mo. It's part of the True/False Film Fest, a long weekend's worth of documentary film and one of the best reasons to live in (or visit) this community in the middle of Missouri.
I was in good company: Brian Heffernan to my left, Clare Becker to my right. Both are Journalism School grad students who understand why Dr. NakaMats' method for picking out cameras is, well... unique.
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The pic of Brian is AWESOME. I like the one of Clare, too, but the Brian one is eerie and just very cool.
Thanks, Carm!
Do you think the lack of midtones, particularly on the left, is a problem?
Not at all, I think that's what makes it interesting. He just ... materializes out of the black.
Yes, I like that, too. Thanks for the feedback!
You know, I think you're onto something. This shooting everyday thing has opened up a part of myself that was frozen. Or scared.
...toldja... :)
You gonna keep going? I think it keeps you on the lookout for that "moment" ... something pictureworthy that you might not have seen or might have seen and looked past before. I need to carry my camera. Yesterday I was fascinated by an afternoon moon and didn't have a camera...so I just stared at it and got madder and madder.
I also think that there is a lot of cross pollination with others doing the 365...I spent a week drowning things, and one of the photogs I chat with tried it because she was curious. Your Brian picture had me trying light/dark and I got something completely different, but kind of cool. I hope you'll keep going.
And I'd like to point out that as a photo student you SHOULD be taking pictures every day...100 lashes with a wet film strip.
100 lashes taken.
I now carry my camera almost (*almost*) everywhere. It's just as natural as grabbing my purse of my backpack. In fact, I walked out of the house with neither -- but had my camera!
Thanks for the peer pressure.
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