regardingthestreet

And then there is the other way of working that thrills me, where all of the people are subjects of the shot, at once, and supporting the same ‘story’ or ‘message’ or whatever you are processing in your mind and want to give shape to. The ones ive taken have normally happened the same way, you see a overall scene with potential, you will find people who can support the main weight of the picture, (because you find them interesting, or meaningful, because they are more predictable) so you compose the picture according to these ‘pillars’ who will do more or less the same while you continue including people and situations in the shot. Fixing point by point (or combining articulation by articulation) in your construction by predicting more or less the action you can expect in each one of them. Sometimes you have to work with few fixed variables and most of your composition depending on luck, other times you get to work with more or less fixed and predictable variables.