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Photosprouts instructor Juan Carlos was teaching another day of crystal ball photography at Salesforce Park as part of our biweekly group lessons there.
I usually find these outdoor classes more chill than the ones at our WeWork office, not only because we’re outside in San Francisco. Salesforce Park is beautiful, with an ecosystem of its own atop a highrise in the city, skyscrapers abound.
What better place to take pictures?
These lessons are also a fun time, and they’re complimentary and simpler than the in-depth classes we provide at the office. Students congregated, and at 3:35, we began.
Things went smooth as usual — it was a little less windy than the previous outdoor lessons — but a student did ask me one question that stuck out: “Why practice crystal ball photography?”
I told him it’s a way of capturing the mundane from a new perspective, and, more importantly, the rules being taught — to control the aperture and depth of field, find ideal positioning, use the right exposure and seek out interesting textures, patterns and more — are fundamentals photographers use in their day to day.
Practice is essential forcementing new information, and looking at life through a crystal ball — though it may burn your hand and probably won’t show the future — is one interesting way to practice capturing one of San Francisco’s most interesting places.
At least, I hope I explained it that well.
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