Shooting with a friend

**Mad Aussie** · 01-17-2009, 11:34 PM

More of a random thought/observation than anything else but something I've noticed is that it's a good idea to go out on a photo shoot with someone else from time to time.

I've done this with my brother and a couple of other friends here and there and I almost always find the same result appears.
That is, although we both shoot the same subjects, when looking at each others photos later on, we both always see angles and subjects etc that we didn't see at the time of the shoot itself.
We often write off something our eyes and minds don't see as a potential photo of worth while the person with us does not, and vice versa.

I've just spent a week teaching my daughter how to use the Canon 400D twin lens kit I sold her before she moved away to live near Sydney (as I type she's driving down the East Coast) and as I taught her and learned to use my new Canon 40D, I again saw the same things as her eye found things and angles mine didn't.

I actually bought 2x 40D's last week as my wife is now gaining a strong interest in photography at last also and having two identical bodies helps in lessening the amount lense changes I have to do.

Now, with the wife learning, there should be more of these 2 person shoots happening and I suspect, and hope, I'll learn something from her views also.

Teaching is Almost as much fun as Learning!

**Mad Aussie** · 10-31-2009, 01:47 AM

I just thought I'd bump this up seeing as I posted it last January and it got ignored

Now, with more members around and perhaps a few different perspectives, someone might have something to add.

**Marko** · 10-31-2009, 02:19 AM

I enjoy shooting with others but I prefer shooting personal work solo.
I love to take LOADS of time exploring different angles of the same subject and not everyone is into that....I hate feeling rushed when I shoot for myself.

But I know exactly what you are talking about....and it's so true, other people's interpretations are great learning tools.