IN CLASS DIRECTIONS:Make 10+ images on campus. OUT OF SCHOOL DIRECTIONS: Be mindful of the APERTURE & ISO controls. The wider the aperture, the more out of focus the background will be. Explore your camera settings and make 15+ images of cherry blossoms.
Possible Ideas...
-overexpose the image (high key lighting. CLICK HERE)
-underexpose the image (low key lighting. CLICK HERE).
-flash at night
-a friend's hand & blossom in focus, while the rest of the background is out of focus (depth of field).
-more...
DIRECTION: For the first class after spring break, make 36+ well-composed structure/building/architecture/cityscape images (a handful of each) EXPLANATION: Think of this project as an exercise in finding shape and line, and structure, spaces, air. The shape and line you photograph will cut your picture frame in to geometry. How can you photograph shape and line (in architecture) so that the viewer's eye is led into the photograph, and kept there. You will look for leading lines, repeated shape, light and shadow, visual rhythm created by shape and line, etc. You are to make photographs that give us a section of your subject matter: a glimpse of it.
For some of the photographs, leave the horizon line out of the photograph. By doing this, you will force yourself (your body) to be interacting with the space you are in differently. Your eye will see things in a new way.
For some of the photographs, get in close and make photographs of parts/details of the structure.
Maybe through this process, and spending time with buildings/places/spaces, you'll capture the spirit and energy of the place/location. That would be a good thing.
A few photographers from the past: Frederick Evans (Cathedral photos), Albert Renger-Patzsch, Paul Strand (his 1915 photo of Wall Street), Berenice Abbott (photos of NYC), Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, and many more...
