Photography Assignments
Photography Assignment Week 1
3 Part Assignment (really think one day for each of the following) - you will submit 16 images for each assignment -- take more pictures so you can choose your 16 best.
1. Pick a colour
Pick up your camera and choose a color for the day. Go out and make images with that color as a dominant element in the image. Find as many different ways as possible to do this.
NOTE: If you find it too difficult to get 16 pictures of the same colour - you can use multiple colours but your images need to be in multiples of 4 (at least 4 of each colour).
2. Pick a shape
Choose a shape and create images which use that shape in an interesting way. It could be features in architecture, artwork, or juxtaposition of multiple structures. Squares are relatively easy. Start there, and then search out triangles, circles, or combinations of shape. Again, look for the most interesting composition you can to highlight that shape in your image.
NOTE: If you find it too difficult to get 16 pictures of the same shape - you can use multiple shapes but your images need to be in multiples of 4 (at least 4 of each shape).
3. The 15 foot circle
Stand in the center of a room, or wherever you happen to be. Make photographs only of subjects that happen to be within 15 feet (or 10, or 5) of where you’re standing. Give yourself a time limit. Exhaust all possibilities. Get as many images as you can using only that area before moving on. This kind of exercise forces you to really look at things and work to compose interesting images.
BONUS - Create a narrative
If a photo is worth a thousand words, then you should try telling a short story with a sequence of photos.
Invite your friends over and use props, costumes, dramatic lighting, and funny facial expressions to create a series of pictures that tells a short story.
After all, people hire photographers to captures stories.
A news station literally hires photojournalists to report the news through a combination of photography and storytelling.
Even a wedding photographer captures the story of the happiest day of a couple’s life.
But during this exercise, you have a little more room to get creative and discover your style.
Create a contact sheet in Photoshop - File - Automate - Contact Sheet. (Turn off use file name as caption).
helpx.adobe.com/ca/photoshop/how-to/create-contact-sheets.html
1. Pick a colour
Pick up your camera and choose a color for the day. Go out and make images with that color as a dominant element in the image. Find as many different ways as possible to do this.
NOTE: If you find it too difficult to get 16 pictures of the same colour - you can use multiple colours but your images need to be in multiples of 4 (at least 4 of each colour).
2. Pick a shape
Choose a shape and create images which use that shape in an interesting way. It could be features in architecture, artwork, or juxtaposition of multiple structures. Squares are relatively easy. Start there, and then search out triangles, circles, or combinations of shape. Again, look for the most interesting composition you can to highlight that shape in your image.
NOTE: If you find it too difficult to get 16 pictures of the same shape - you can use multiple shapes but your images need to be in multiples of 4 (at least 4 of each shape).
3. The 15 foot circle
Stand in the center of a room, or wherever you happen to be. Make photographs only of subjects that happen to be within 15 feet (or 10, or 5) of where you’re standing. Give yourself a time limit. Exhaust all possibilities. Get as many images as you can using only that area before moving on. This kind of exercise forces you to really look at things and work to compose interesting images.
BONUS - Create a narrative
If a photo is worth a thousand words, then you should try telling a short story with a sequence of photos.
Invite your friends over and use props, costumes, dramatic lighting, and funny facial expressions to create a series of pictures that tells a short story.
After all, people hire photographers to captures stories.
A news station literally hires photojournalists to report the news through a combination of photography and storytelling.
Even a wedding photographer captures the story of the happiest day of a couple’s life.
But during this exercise, you have a little more room to get creative and discover your style.
Create a contact sheet in Photoshop - File - Automate - Contact Sheet. (Turn off use file name as caption).
helpx.adobe.com/ca/photoshop/how-to/create-contact-sheets.html
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