Trying New Things

I am in Chicago for a couple of days. I brought along some cameras and an experimental attitude. This will sound like a no brainer, but I am spending time with just the camera and some high speed film. I am letting the camera meter determine exposure and I am simply pointing the camera where they need to go.

Reading over this and writing it makes me feel like a jerk, as though I would never let myself shoot so freely. Well, I usually don't. I have a way of working that I am really happy with and I feel that the results do me well. I just want to step out of MY box and start from somewhere else. Funny thing though, by planning the film speed and the no-meter attitude I am still kinda in MY box.

There is just a control group to how I make my photographs that is inherent with how I see the math and the science of photography. This way of working and, more importantly, this way of working out process questions is probably why I didn't choose to paint. My brain is just a little too structured for it.

So much for the confessional, I just wanted to let people know that I am working on some new things with a new way of finding them. Hopefully there will be something to look forward to.