Last month’s topic for our photography group was on Macro Photography. We’ve taken on this topic before, so it is a repeat, but with a twist.
What I’ve noticed is a tendency to stick with more literal interpretations of objects, rather than look for abstractions, which can be a little more interesting. My suggestion was to take 80 pictures of the same thing. The theory is that after 20 or so shots you’ve run out of all the ease ones and now you have to think. That is, you’re forced to look at the subject in a non-literal way.
I explored this theory many years ago in a project I called 83 pictures1; the theory seemed to work out.
Here is an example:
Some shots from in-between:
The final shot, albeit subjective (that is it could have been anything).
The theme I explored in this series — increased pixelization of the image — was discovered as I went through the process; it was not preplanned; as I took more shots it became apparent. That’s why it may take so many pictures.
- I called the project 83 pictures because that’s all an SD cards would hold at the time (gives you an idea of how many years ago this was) ↩︎
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