Photo by Ed Templeton : Boy watches Graffiti Barcelona
This interview from American Photo Mag of Ed Templeton is brilliant. I love the idea behind Ed’s new photobook collection “Wayward Cognitions”. This was my favorite photo / question / answer.
“It sounds like you are doing a lot of composition in your head. Is that correct?
For sure, if you were watching me from above you would see my path take a weird erratic turn. I see somebody and then I have to make a decision real quick: Is it a full body shot? Do I have to get close? A lot of my focusing is guesstimation. I see someone so I focus my camera accordingly and then I put my camera in that position to make my focusing correct. I don’t shoot from the hip or anything. I look through and compose in that split second, I’m walking by and I kind of slap the camera up to my eye make that millisecond composition and then shoot. Sometimes you fail of course, but I’m more and more surprised by how good I am at getting everything in there, getting what I wanted in there and getting the exposure right.” – American Photo Mag
Go to American Photo Mag and read the rest of this interview by Jeanette D. Moses of Ed Templeton. I promise you’ll get inspired.