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Words: Matt lives just down the street, and so he pops in a few times a week. We don't go to his house very often (even though it's awesome: he has a Harry Potter-eque cupbord under the stairs and the biggest claw foot bathtub I've ever seen!) because we mostly hang out after the kids are in bed. That's the downside of being friends with me AND Jake. You have to give us heads up for a babysitter or be homebodies with us.
Jake was super tired after a queue bust at work (12 hour day!), so Matt stepped in and got super goofy with the kids. They were playing tug-of-war with his arms and rolling around. The kids both love him so much.
We had homemade pizza, put the kids in bed, talked for hours, watched "About a Boy" (because Will is Matt if Matt were evil), and kicked him out so Jake and I could go to bed way later than we should have. That's all very typical of a Matt visit.
What you can take from this:
- It's usually easy to take photos of friends and families that are portrait style, but you might be more successful at getting good candids if you let people know your life documentation mission first. Our family and friends are all used to my and Jake's constant photo taking by now, and they are much more comfortable in front of the camera. And it SHOWS.
- You don't have to show the faces of two people to show the relationship between them. This photo captures Jonas and Matt's relationship pretty well.
- If you don't know what to say about an event, consider just listing what happened without worrying about how well it all flows together.
This is my documentation from the Daily Doc | Nov 2012 handout. It has 30 prompts to use if you get stuck documenting. I'm tackling all of these this month AND doing unplanned daily documentation. I printed out the prompts (pages 2-4 of the handout) and I'm highlighting them to cross them off as I go. I'm not doing them in order; I'm using them as they make sense for me.
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