A photograph is made, not taken.

Project one: Review

This project is a review of everything I have learned from my photo 1 and photo 2 classes. The project is a compilation of every photo project thus far. The goal is to take 3-6 pictures using the themes of previous projects. So at the end of the project I will have reviewed all of the things I have learned so far.

Projects (in order):

- One thing

- Portraits

- Types of light

- Rule of thirds/symetry/leading lines

- Self portraits

- Multiple exposures

- Blur

- Architecture

- "It's not too late to..."

- Landscapes

- Still life

- Identity (self portraits)

So that's 36-72 photos total for all of the projects. Due date: Friday, the 30th.

Summer events

Some photos from things I did this summer:

Went to the beach:

Mysterious foggy beach:

Crawfish festival (parade and other events):

Grants Pass (grandpa's grave):

Studio still lifes

Identity (Self portraits, pt. 2)

Contact:

5x7 Prints:

8x10 print:

5x7 prints for the 16x20 print:

Photo project ideas

I've never done a straight up text post on this blog before, so this should be interesting! So as the title states, I'm going to post some photo project ideas I've thought of or have seen elsewhere. I want to have a good amount of different projects listed in this post and future posts, because I'll (hopefully) be taking photo 3 and 4 next year, which are independent study. So I get to choose whatever project I do! Also, if I want to take pictures during the summer I can use these projects! So here are a few ideas, with more to come, and a little description of each:

Self portrait (Part 2!):
So I've already done a self portrait project (in photo 1) and I really liked it. I really don't care for taking pictures of people unless, that person is me. That sounds bad, like I'm really full of myself, but it's just so much easier and more fun to take pictures of yourself rather than other people. You don't have to ask your subject to do all these ridiculous and silly things, you can just do them yourself! Anyways, I think self portraits are always good.

Photo collage:
So I've seen some photo collages in other photo 2 classes from past years, and I was sort of disappointed I didn't get to do my own photo collage in photo 2. So that's why this is on my list. Basically, a photo collage (the ones I've seen, at least) are where you take a bunch of smaller pictures of an object or subject, and then print out all of those smaller pictures and put them together in a larger picture. I just think it's a really cool effect and awesome project.

"The unknown figure":
So this is the project that I'm most excited that I thought of. Basically, the idea is that you have people in your photographs, usually in some sort of nature setting, except they're always turned away from the camera, like they're walking away. I've seen a ton of pictures like this, and I just really love them all for some reason. Something about the anonymity of the people in the photographs just intrigues me. So I think this project would be awesome.


So there's a few photo project ideas, I'll post some more in the future!

Still Life

Contact sheet:

Paper:

Cards:

CDs:

Rocks:

Bottles:

Bottles (flipped over each other):

Pigs: