RGB is not a colour, it is a formula to mix colour

If you can see it with your eye it is a colour. How you control colour is one of the elements that will determine how the viewers eyes moves across your image. From the moment of capture understanding the formula to mix colour will make your images more successful when they are printed.
If something moves you take a picture of it, dont hesitate or that moment will be lost. The moment of life happens it will not re happen. Viola Spolin said, in absolute spontaneity, you get absolute truth. You can only be one way when you are spontaneous and that is truthful. By staying in the moment & allowing the spontaneity of your  experience to cause the shutter to be fired.

What happens to you.

The way you live your life is not determined by what happens to you, but by how you react to what happens. You are not defined by what life brings to you, but rather by the attitude you bring to life. If you have a positive attitude, you trigger a chain reaction of positive events & positive outcomes that will be seen in your images, for they are a reflection of how you live your life.

Sometime you have to tie up the editor & let your creative self take over.

Every image you create is an expression of the artistic inspiration that moves you. You express your creative voice by  developing the ability to show this without screaming for attention.

Desaturated image

What is lost when an image is desaturated is all the colour information. What is left is simply luminance, or light & dark aspect of the image. What is not present , as would be the case in film image is the relationship between red, green& blue translated to the greyscale.

Photography should not be about taking images, it should be about being taken by them, It should be about allowing yourself to be completely consumed by the decisive moment that will pull you through the lens & the  image is captured along the way.

B&W

B & W photography is a beautiful medium for self expression. In a world dominated by colour, there are still lots of photographers practising the art of monochrome photography. I suggest you seek out some of there work for inspiration & Motivation.

So why Black & White

B&W gives us an artistic view of the world we live in, you remove the colour & the story has to stand out , the lines, textures & feeling come rushing to the surface if they are there. Too many people think that if the image is a lousy colour image it will make a good B&W wrong on so many levels. A good B&W will stop you in your tracks faster & hold your attention longer than any Colour image, that is due to the emotional impact that B&W has over us. If we think when we see in B&W it is night time, when are we at our most vulnerably at night, there are animals who see better at night & can kill us, so B&W causes a primal emotion within us. For me B&W is the purist form of photography & is far harder to achieve & achieve well. more on  B&W to follow.

Remember the camera is only a box

It is you who is the artist ,it is within us all we just have to be brave enough to let the artist out.

The past masters created images on negatives that were taken on camera systems very different from what we use ,yet they achieved wonderful results. Can you image what the likes of William Mortenson would have achieved in today's Photoshop when you see what he created in the 1930's . How would Edward Weston nudes be like or even his famous Pepper the mind boggles.Photography is about your vision dont let technique dominate your artistic voice, it is all about YOU. These are two images who have never seen the light of day they are still on the canvas but I though I would throw them out for you to see?

So here we are again on the trails less travelled, what has happened to you today, I spent a little time storyboarding a shoot I hope to try in Nov when I run my next workshop on the coast. I carry my  IPOD with me now & write down my ideas as they come into my head, some might never see the light of day but I enjoy the challenge of trying to get all the parts of the motion still image done if only on paper it is a great brain exercise, how do I want the final image to look , how do I want the lighting to be, what do I want the model to wear, how do I want her  or him to act, the list goes on but it is no different from a big motion film you have to work all these parts out. These images are exactly that I totally set this up even to directing the scene totally to get my idea. The tattoos are real, great make up artist got the detail as I had envisaged it. This was a storyboard shoot that went exactly to plan.