Trychydts in English

Very little room (and time) for creativity, and a lot of useful bits of information — that was the balance of today’s photo course.

This day was about the light modifiers — reflectors, grids, umbreallas, softboxes and dishes. We had to make photos on the entire scene, and two closer ones on the models to be able to study the effects of the modifiers. Since we were insturcted to concentrate on the task and not to stop fiddling with the composition, the pictures, as photographs, are really worthless. Except the last one — this time I could not resist giving some instructions to the model. She said it was the best photo of her taken this day. I took it as a compliment, because some guys at the studio simply ignored the teacher’s instructions about fast and effective work. They acted as if they tried to shoot the title page of the Vogue instead.

Unfortunately, we simply could not bear to stay for the last two hours of the course. These “Vogue” boys and girls insisted on acting like idiots, and since the last part of the course was meant to be a kind of treat, we left and treated ourselves elsewhere instead.