Black+White Photography - UK (2019-12)

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INSPIRATION

ONE-DAY PHOTO

P R O J E C T S / 11

THE PLAY OF LIGHT

The importance of practising our photography often gets overshadowed

by the desire to find the killer shot but, says Eddie Ephraums,

time spent looking and watching could be just what we need.

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© Eddie Ephraums

I

know that it’s good for my

photography, but how often

do I practise different aspects

of the process, and then stick

at practising one of them for

a good length of time, like an

entire day? Typically, I’m so

focused on looking for the bigger

picture that I forget to exercise

the individual parts that make up

the whole. Yet each photographic

part benefits from regular

exercise, for example, practising

with the play of light, as in this

One Day Project.

Practice removes the pressure

to perform. There’s no striving

to make a great picture, and

with this freedom comes

the opportunity to discover

something ‘other’ about a

subject, that perhaps wasn’t at

first apparent. If I think back

to standing on Verona’s Ponte