Scrapbookers Make The Best Photographers
Posted by Katrina Kennedy on Oct 27, 2011 in Blog, Photography, Scrapbook | 9 comments
Scrapbookers make the best photographers. Do you know why?
Over the weekend I watched Rick Sammons’ workshop on Creative Live. He demonstrated numerous methods for improving photography, seeing differently, and connecting with your reason for creating photographs. It was packed with amazing information.
He said things like:
“Photograph people that you love.”
“The closer you get, the more intimate the image.”
“Get it right in camera.” (You know I loved that one.)
“Think about the one shot you would want to take.”
“Before you shoot, run your eyes around the frame.”
“The name of the game is to fill the frame.”
And then he said the words that resonated in my head.
Write captions for your pictures. If you can’t think of a caption for your photo, maybe it isn’t saying what it needs to.
I believe most of us who scrapbook know exactly how we are going to caption our photos. We know the memory we are recording when we pick up our cameras. That memory drives the elements we include in our frame.
We write our captions before we ever click the shutter!
Well done.
Do you write your captions before you click the shutter? I’d love to hear your opinion!
Love this! I write captions when I compose a shot but also put them in the metadata of my photo software after – that way my kids will know… Because if it never gets into the metadata…
Such an important idea Kayla. I need to be better about that!
Couldn’t agree more! I owe it to scrapbooking that I learned (still learning) the beauty of photography!
I don’t really write captions but I think “…oh, this is going to be great for this kind of layout!”, ect…
I don’t have a caption in mind when I press the shutter, but I usually have a vision for what I want to capture. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and I hopefully I’ve figured out why it didn’t.
I did more caption writing/contemplating while I was doing my P365. I usually did have the description of the photo planned out before clicking the shutter.
For my travel photos I always have captions (well, for most of them anyway) They have become a very important part of remembering the story behind the phtots.
There is no doubt that scrapping led to photography. Now I struggle to scrap. There is room and need for both and sometimes, they overlap. I don’t usually know what I have in my camera until I get home in front of my computer but I always have words ready, to match up with photos. Song lyrics and quotes are among my favorite, always looking for its photo sweetheart! Thanks Miss K!
I think you know the answer to that one!
It is nearly impossible for me to shoot without imagining the journaling I will write. I’m not sure which I love more.
Of course I knew this
Love that about you!
I always have a caption in mind or a great scrap page in mind when I shoot. But then… there are those days I just photograph for fun!