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A few years ago, I started using weekly photos as a way to record attendance. To help keep the, uh, exercise from getting stale, we started shaking up the process. Adopting certain poses was one early strategy. Adopting a one-and-done shooting rule was another strategy (The Attendance Photo & The Story Behind the Shot).
A movie review I read years ago continues to keep me thinking about unusual points of view, ones that get the audience member to wonder if a mouse really does look at a scene from its hole the way a specific camera shot does. I read that article years ago and I’ve long forgotten the movie that motivated it, but “How to Craft a Cinematic Frame Within a Frame” does a nice job of explaining why a movie director would go to the trouble with visual good examples. This past pre-Christmas’s run got me doing my own experimentation. That photo captured the crew as if looking through JRC’s energy-gel display. The next pictured the runners 2 different ways, first as if through the rails of the pavilion in the center of Jenkintown Borough and second as if being viewed by the runners themselves. Last week’s had one Growler taking primary billing and the others effectively playing extras. Options for future shots boggle the mind.
(L-R: [inset] Adelaide, Jason, Thaddeus, J’Adam, Train David, Jackie [low])
Fortunately, the running crew are pretty much game about being part of memorable photographic efforts. “Pretty much” except one particular runner >coughDavecough< last week who quipped, “This shot is taking longer than the run.” Our attendance photos won’t be winning any visual-art awards, but they sure will be memorable to execute, fun to look at, and accurate as representations of those who were there. And if they start getting too tedious for some people to stage, walp, I’m getting mighty good at using Paint to cut and paste runners into a photo who caaan’t quiiite make it otherwise.
-CtCloser (Calvinthe), “Negative split or positive splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Likeness used with permission. ¶Text and photos (unless otherwise stated): Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-posted: (1) Facebook JRC Growlers Group Run (2025’01’15’W Run Message), (2) GGR email list, (3) Cerebruns by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Cerebrun with added caption and picture.
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