As I travel to a festival called Momentum I started to think about how I focus on the job at hand, which for me is to take awesome photos of the festival and show it’s incredible atmosphere.
The first thing for me is to understand what your goal is. If I’m going to shoot from a new angle I don’t do it just because it’s a new angle. I do it as I believe there might be something of interest from that angle. You might need to plan this well in advance to get the best out of it. I go with a list of shots I want to get, I just keep looking at it to remind myself what to focus on. Also, I keep in mind what my long term goal is. This may be to get types of shots I don’t have in my portfolio so I can approach a potential client.
Secondly, one of the biggest things that helps is knowing my equipment and how I can best utilise what I have. To change the settings on my camera I don’t need to look at my camera and I can do this on the move. This has come from several years of practicing, it allows me to take a shot, look at it and see what I need to change and change it while I carry on talking to the people who’s shot I’m taking or moving to a new angle. This means they aren’t standing around just waiting as I fiddle with my camera and less likely to miss the moment. Also, it allows you to concentrate on what really matters, the end product.
These two little tips aren’t only helpful to any budding photographers but anyone doing any type of job.