Class at The Willow Kindergarten, Chattanooga
Some of my best photos never happened. This is one of them.
The scene was The Willow, a Christian elementary, kindergarten, and daycare facility in Chattanooga. I was making photos for the nearby university which sponsored the school.
I loved the involvement of the teacher and the children. In fact, I got so caught up in the action that I did not observe one of the cardinal rules I wrote about in my previous post: I failed to be responsible for every square millimeter of my viewing screen. In the excitement of the moment, I did not make sure the teacher's hands were completely in the picture. That's a fatal flaw that makes what would have been a winning picture just another near miss to add to my extensive gallery of near misses.
Most of the time, when a photographs turns out to be a miss, it's because we tried to include too much in the viewfinder. But sometimes we don't include enough to tell a complete story.
This photo has a lot going for it. It's sharp, the exposure is right on the money, the action is great, and it's. . .still just another photo that didn't quite make it. Make sure your viewfinder shows everything you want to show. No more and definitely no less.
The photo was made with an Olympus OM film camera on (as best I remember) Kodachrome 64 film. I used one flash unit on a light stand, bounced off the ceiling on my left.
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