16 November 2018

PROJECT #12: WEEKEND THEME - "My Daydream/My Nightmare"

RATIONALE:
To make images that are visual representations of what the two words - daydream & nightmare - mean to you, and to practice creative problem solving by thinking metaphorically and representationally.

DIRECTIONS: 
This weekend themed project is about visual metaphor.
Visual metaphor is the representation of an idea through place/person/object/time/composition/color/etc.

First: Think of nightmare. What does that mean to you? What is the first picture that comes to mind? THAT could be your starting point.

Next: With what you have access to in your personal life, how can you photograph THAT idea in way that will produce a well lit, purposefully composed, and good image?

1. Make 3+ photographs that represent your definition of what a "daydream" looks like.
2. Make 3+ photographs that represent your definition of what a "nightmare" looks like.
2. Think outside the box to a sunny pleasant place...and inside to a dark corner of the box.
3. You will be putting together TWO diptychs next class, so will need at least THREE+ photographs of each idea.
4. Test your creativity in new and challenging ways.

NOTE: You must be in one of the photos in each diptych. No, do not make one of those ubiquitous selfies where you're trying to look good (booo!), but rather put yourself in the photo in some other way (yay!)

INSPIRATION:
Arthur Tress. CLICK HERE.
People lost in daydreams. CLICK HERE.

 

14 November 2018

PROJECT #11: LEADING LINES

DIRECTIONS in CLASS (4 points):
1. Make the photos as directed on the handout example sheet. 
2. Develop and post the photos to a post titled "LEADING LINES"

DIRECTIONS for HOMEWORK (4 points):
1. Make EIGHT (8+) more photos OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL that have one or two OBVIOUS leading lines that draw our eye to your subject matter. Due next class.

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Photo by Steve McCurry

Henri Cartier Bresson. Hyères, France. 1932



The lines that compose the Bresson photo:
(About the Hyères photo. CLICK HERE.)

Cartier-Bresson's site. CLICK HERE.

ANSEL ADAMS' ICONIC SNAKE RIVER PHOTOGRAPH:
Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, WY, 1942, photo, NARA, Records of the National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is thereby a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its entirety.”  Quote of Ansel Adams (1902-1984)*


AND MY PERSONAL ALL-TIME FAVORITE LEADING LINES IMAGE:
Grandmother. Brooklyn, NY.  1993. Eugene Richards.




BASIC EXAMPLES OF LEADING LINE: