Finals

Because my first series was the strongest, I posted mainly photo's from that series. I really enjoyed this project, but I wish we had more time to work, or that we had gone to different places. Even though I used mainly photos from my first series draft, I read comments for my photos and changed the editing a little bit. 

2nd Draft Of Candids

This week I had a harder time taking pictures. It's been so cold that not many people are outside, and I think that the  photo's from my first draft were better. Hopefully I'll have more than enough to make up for it in my 3rd draft.

Candids

This week we tried to focus on one subject of our choice, we looked back through all of our old pictures, and old posts to get inspiration. I decided to focus on candid photography. I enjoy portraits, but I like to see real people and their expressions, you can capture a real moment, not a created one. I wasn't sure exactly how to get candid pictures, but after a test run, I figured out that the easiest way to get good pictures was to set the camera to a fast shutter speed, and snap pictures of people in their natural habitat, or to ask people if you could photograph them. Either way I got some great pictures. 

Holloween!

This week in honor of Halloween, we decided to take pictures that told a story that related to Halloween. We spent the first 30 minutes of class reminiscing about things we were scared of as children, and created short stories revolving around these ideas. We thought about robberies, and monsters and kidnappings as well as giant spiders and ghosts. Our pictures represent something that scares us, in true Halloween spirit!

Man vs. Wild

Animation

Over the past few weeks in photography class, we've been toying with the idea of creating stories using still lives. We used toy soldiers, and other toys to create a sequence of images that told a story. We also experimented with different perspectives and backgrounds. We posted multiple drafts of each story as well as taking a series of single-frame shots. These are pictures of our animation stories. 

Stories

Avedon Portraits

This week we watched a movie about Richard Avedon. We studied his way of taking portraits, he takes people completely unaware, and at their worst or when their true feelings show through. He manages to capture people when they are most vulnerable. By doing this he gets pictures of famous people with real expressions that no one else sees. This week we were trying to do the same thing.