I'm a list person... I sketch and doodle a lot. I have lists for everything. I have an iPhone app to keep track of my lists. So it should be of little surprise to find that I make photography lists and sketches. Lists of things I want to photograph; How I want to photograph them; Workshops I will be doing; Topics to share here in the blog..
Consider quick napkin notes of ideas you want depict in your photo session. Many will agree that working from a self-assignment can help give your random ideas some direction and form. You don't need to be an artist, nor do you need to be overly detailed.
Creating a schematic after a recent workshop has helped me recreate the shooting and light setup and will save me a ton of effort next time I want a similar setup. Historically I will make three to five revisions of a particular setup on scrap paper before committing it to one of my journal. The journal has a rather random flow, but I keep an index in the back of each book and use a keyword hierarchy to navigate back to the entries of lists, camera settings and schematics that fill the front pages.
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