A few words on serendipity
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Serendipity is by far one of my favorite concepts. The reason is that it just happens. You can’t plan for it, and if you fight it things tend to spiral out of control and then it’s just a mess.
I prefer to embrace serendipity and allow it to really shape how I work. I have found that my favorites shots are the ones I couldn’t have planned. It’s the shots where the model says “I have a wacky idea” or the shot that you don’t remember taking until you’re looking at them a few days later.
The other side of the coin is that you force serendipity either. If it doesn’t happen you have to be prepared to take charge and express what it is that you want. This is still a challenge for me but I find that if I just let go of my mind it usually happens. and it is magical.
Of course that’s just my opinion…
