Photography assignment and how it was a total downer...

I was pretty excited about the whole assignment in the morning... The assignment : to shoot kids for a dance academy... i was all happy and confident with no homework (that was my first negative point)... So there i went, a bunch of kids, their teacher and some music... and i shot them... I come back home and see the results... and believe me its a disaster... it doesnt even look like they have been clicked by some amateur photographer... its like someone looked around, saw me, gave me the camera and asked me to click... a total downer... the witness to these photographs was M... and he had a lot of feedback to give... And am taking it all... M started with suggestions and they kept flowing... and he is right... I've to buy them all and share them too... His suggestions -

1. Do your homework... Google dance photographs and pick what you like... Study them... Read the articles on how they did it...

2. Have visuals ready in your head and then convey it to people you want to photograph...

3. Based on your visual, get the place of the shoot ready, be it background, lights, etc...

4. Trial rounds of photographs and then adjusting your camera settings accordingly...

5. It is not a dance session, its a photography session... They move according to what the photographer wants and not the other way round... Take command of the situations and get what you want out of the subject...

6. And if you go wrong, do the whole process again and not give up...

So taking the suggestions to heart, here i walk... tomorrow is another day, with the whole night left for me to study... :)