Due: Wednesday 1/17, bring files to class
The idea for his exercise is to practice seeing, in both a general and concentrated way. Photography is largely an art of selection. What happens when you get very specific about what you share with your camera? A photograph tends to be democratic...if its in the frame, it counts! Include too much and the viewer might not know what is important. A good practice is to isolate exactly what you wish to share...no more, no less. Build emphasis into the photograph through framing, or in-camera cropping.
Rules of the Game:
- Natural light (window or outside)
- No flash (so please use plenty of light)
- Shoot JPEG (Large File, Highest Quality) or RAW
- Auto Exposure and Auto Focus is okay for now
- Shoot 50-100 images
- No camera phones (for now)—use a proper camera
Directions:
- Look. Look for unusual or surprising subjects that strike your eye as interesting. It really doesn't matter what the subject is, but how it looks. The subject could be a scene or landscape, an object or a person. Caveat: No pets, flowers, beer cans or cigarette stubs...be adventurous, seeking something exciting, original and/or unusual. Weird is good!
- Make an initial, general, picture of your subject.
- In Camera Cropping. Get more specific or come closer in. What exactly grabbed your attention in the first place? Be very specific. Was it a detail? A shadow? A color? A facial expression? Isolate this specific thing by moving in closer to your subject, so that one specific thing primarily appears in your frame, and little else. Make a picture of that.
- Move on to your next subject and repeat the sequence.
Examples:
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isolated
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