No, I prefer to feel it – if I start thinking about what I’m doing then I will miss something. The management of one leading artist I have photographed says that I get pictures that they didn’t know were even there, and that’s because I feel the music rather than think about it.
That’s the problem: if you tell me that I have to watch out for something, I will focus on it too much and will miss other things, whereas if I don’t know what’s going to happen and it’s just thrown at me, I just go with it and it all flows and I capture the photos I need to get.
If someone gives me a list that says ‘Shoot that, that, that and that,’ then I will focus on the list and I’ll miss things.