Although it does become interesting to see how things change when there is more pressure and a bigger spotlight. Hopefully those extra topic byes will help things play out in interesting ways over the next couple of weeks!
So I'll ask a question that I was asked tonight - around the time that I would have been closing a polls *kicks self*...
What is your favorite kind of photography? Posed? Candid? Street photography? Landscape? Etc. . .
and what wasn't asked, but I'm just throwing in there, how does that relate to how you handle visuals in your writing?
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"Results" from last week: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/926733.html
and the new topics: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/927053.html Which ones interest you?
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*makes a circle of fancy chocolates, fancy soaps, and video games*
*does her best
Like I want to see a photo that suggests its captured a moment in time and we can make some guesses about the moment before and maybe the moment after.
In regards to my writing, I ideally like to leave some things suggested but often have a tendency to over explain. I spent a year trying to write nothing longer than 500 (then 300) words just to break this habit, but it didn't take. :D
I've been wanting to write about rap and hip-hop and "Sabotage" offers an obvious excuse to do that.
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But... I also have really interesting (to me) fiction ideas for both of them. :O
I don't have immediate ideas for "Tihadrian dimorphous chloride is a hell of a drug" or "Helpful information" but I might be inspired if I sleep on them.
The main thing this week is finding time.
As a wedding photographer, I offer two forms of coverage to my client. The formal portraits and trad shots, and then the candid b/w shots. My signature offering to all wedding clients, and why I continue shooting weddings which is truly grueling work, is to capture the single summation photograph. It is always a candid, it is always a detail shot, it is something that would be missed with the formal portraits and line-ups. These are the "arty" shots, the images I prefer for their small moment-out-of-time feeling, and the ones I tell clients will hold up for decades as display pieces over the portraits. The sockless groom, the sneakered bride, the hand-holding gesture, the first look of both partners, the recessional joy, the couple alone for the first time.
And now that I hold that up against what I like to write and what I like to read, it makes sense. The small detail that is unique to that particular story.
Thanks for that thought-provoking question, G!