Extraction……..

After the Nelson Ghost Town workshop with Jack I’m doing my next KelbyOne class on “Extraction”!  Extraction is seeing the overall scene or subject and then finding the images within the overall image.  We took out students out to day to Bernard Harbor to a working lobster fishing area and let them explore visually the traps, ropes, floats and boats!  I found a pile of brilliant red and yellow floats and started with the over all shot below, and then kept moving in to sections until I got the shot above (my favorite).  Give it a try your next time out shooting and you will be surprised how much it will improve the final take!

The search is a great exercise in trying to determine what part of the scene speaks the loudest to you in terms of definition and impact.  This will and should be different for most of us, and it helps you develop a better sense of what you are going for in your images!  The learning process is both exciting and demanding, but worthwhile.

Blessings,

the pilgrim