WORKSHOP#2: Stretching Your Eye Muscles

The workshop was held on 17 June, with participants Huiying, Ulla, Angie, Sam Kumar, Sam Chin and Justin setting out to complete two shooting assignments for the workshop. The two assignements, 'Shooting without looking through the viewfinder' and 'Shoot a creative self-portrait' were designed to help the participants expand their visual senses and make them 'see' more creatively. Here are their amazing pics!


Picture by Sam Chin


Picture by Justin


Picture by Sam Kumar


Picture by Ore Huiying


Picture by Ulla Gratton


Picture by Angie Kwok

Here are some ideas that were taught in the workshop:

We only make the pictures we know, it is hard to break from our preconceptions about how something should look photographed.

Challenge yourself to forget your preconceptions about how to photograph something. A photograph is nothing but an illusion of a literal description of how the camera saw a piece of time and space.

Realize that when the whole photograph worked it is an intuitive response to something visual, unexplainable in words

- Ernest Goh