Wasted?
Yesterday I was asked by my friend Daniel if I wanted to come with him to Ørsta to cover a ballet production. He had gotten an assignment from the newspaper Sunnmørsposten to write something about it, so he wanted me to take som photos. I said yes putting the evening aside to do some work, and maybe get paid some small change for my photos.
While preparing; charging camera batteries, checking memory cards and lenses, I got some excitement about the assignment. It had been a while since I last photographed stage performances and I looked forward to it.
But then I got disappointed when arriving at the scene (Ørsta kulturhus). The newspaper had sent another photographer due to some misunderstandings. So he was going to take the photos for the paper, and mine wouldn't get published and I just had to forget getting paid this time. The other photographer wasn't comfortable with the situation, and I just had to say to him: "You take the photos. I'll just take it as training and playing this time, as the paper unfortunately has screwed it up." So I just ended up being company for my friend and taking photos for the fun of it. So then it was more playing and experimenting than normal, not taking all the safe shots I would if it had been an important assignment.
Safe back home downloading the photos from the memory cards I see many of the experiments didn't end up as anything close to perfect. But I got some nice ones out of the 140 exposures :) So that was my Friday evening. Was it worth it? I'm not sure..
For all of you who read Norwegian you can read Daniel's article about the ballet show here: Klassikar i kulturhuset (note that the photo is by the other photographer)
You can see more of my photos from the show in the gallery.
lagt inn av Øyvind Bye Skille, 14:38
4 Kommentarer:
To Øyvind,
yet again I made a mistake together with Sunnørsposten. We did not clarify who would take the pictures and it resulted in the very unfortunate incident Øyvind talked about in his blog.
This is yet another mistake from my part which has inflicted Øyvind. I cannot do anything else than apologize.
I sincerely hope this has not damaged the confidence I hope that Øyvind over the time has invested in me. He is a terrific photographer in addition to being an excellent friend, who I have had the privilege of working with earlier. For instance in India.
I want to wish Øyvind and all others who read this a truly happy Christmas and a good new year.
Daniel
Correction:
By reading the above comment from Daniel you might get the idea that I blame him for what happened. That's certainly not the case. If I blame someone, it's the newspaper Sunnmørsposten, no one else.
-byeskille.net-
I truely believe there is no such thing as "waste" and only bad examples. Whatever it is, oyvind the pictures are nice (again the pc is deffective so no offense if i dont call them great), Daniel's article dint turn up on the PC i am working at (even though there was little use:))..i am sure its good..
merry christmas and happy new year to both of you.
Take care.
Deepshikha
ps:it came up and the pic is good..
Might be a bad evening but the pictures shows that you did have a good shots. :)
Robert
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