Very often as photographers, we have an idea in our heads of the shot that we want to take. Sometimes of the exact shot we want to take. This previsualization seems to come very natural to us photographers and is hard to avoid. It isn’t a bad thing either. Many of my shots were previsualized and I like to think that contributed to their success. It isn’t necessarily the only way to create successful shots, however, and sometimes some great images can come from completely improvised shooting, without any previsualization at all whatsoever. My very first jazz saxophone teacher once said to me “In jazz improvisation, there aren’t any wrong notes”. He went on to say, “Now, let me also say that some notes are better than others”. This same concept seems to hold a bit of credibility in the photography world as well. Picking up your camera and walking out the front door, or going for a mid-day stroll while on vacation, you can experiment with some improvised shooting-no previsualization required. All of these images were shot pretty much in the middle of the day, while on walks by myself, or with my wife. All completely improvised. In this case, some pictures might be better than others-I’ll let you be the judge of that.
Location: Spokane, Washington
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Chip Phillips began his relationship with photography in 2006 when his father gave him his old Pentax Spotmatic film SLR camera. Chip was immediately hooked and soon made the transition to digital. Given his lifelong love of the outdoors, he naturally made the progression to focusing on landscape photography. A professionally trained classical musician, Chip also performs as Principal Clarinet with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and is Adjunct Professor of Clarinet at Gonzaga University. Chip resides in Spokane Washington with his wife and son.
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