Week Four
For this week's assignment I had chose to capture two of my four children along with other random pictures from my friend's football game. The water bottle in these set of pictures was one of the most interesting pictures to me mainly due to the shadow it gives and the way the light reflects off of the bottle itself. The picture with the light going down the center and onto my friend's arm was kind of cool as well so I left it in the photo instead of attempting to edit it out. The top picture is of my youngest daughter attempting to climb up the tube-style slide (side note, she made it all the way up) The third photo is of my oldest daughter standing on the bleachers at the game while enjoying her ice-pop on that really hot day. Lastly, the fourth picture was again, my youngest daughter wanting to take a picture since she had seen me taking pictures everywhere else.
Consider this gallery of photographs by amateur Greek photographer, George Christakos. Notice how the photographs are about the quality of light... and shadow.
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Shadows take on a materiality that is just as strong as the architectural elements depicted, perhaps stronger. Use the widest focal length setting on your lens. Look for shadows as geometric form this week. Start around your home, downtown, or anywhere your travels take you. Look down, look up, fill the frame.
Light reflecting directly off water can be interesting... throw in dramatic clouds...perhaps at sunset... convert to black and white...
Chairs, railings, your back deck, light streaming in through windows casting shadows.... shadows made by people walking downtown...
In Windowsill Daydreaming (left), Minor White has found a projection of light rather than shadow to photograph. Can you find a beam of light to photograph?
How can we use light as poetic metaphor?
The above is taken from the syllabus for week 4.... please click on the links by visiting the syllabus and reflect on what I'd like you to learn this week... Hint: using people in the photographs makes it much much harder to get this project right.
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