Tuesday 9 December 2008

Week 18 Mark George

Mark George came and gave us a talk last week, For those who don't know Mark is not a photographer but is still a very influential man, he is the Agent to some of the best photographers most notably Richard Avedon (before passing) and Don McCullin both two of my favourite photographers. As well as other photographers such as Vincent LaForet and Jim Fiscus. Mark had a lot of wisdom and practical knowledge to pass on, and the things that I feel I need to really take on was firstly to shoot everyday, even if it doesn't mean actually taking a single photograph just look throught the viewfinder and practice seeing through that. I had also recently read of sports photographers who practice by taking photographs whilst watching a match, which I guess is good practice, and like how Mark compared to musicians is just practice.

The other thing that I wanted to put into practice from Mark was to imitate product shot's and considering that lately I have been very keen into still life, is something that I should I start practicing in my spare time and whilst I have the facilities to do so and by doing this I should start to develop my own style.