ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY 2 ASSIGNMENTS

REMOTE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT #2: TWO STORIES (INDOOR / OUTDOOR)

I am asking you to come up with two stories that you should tell with no more than five photos each.  I don’t care how many you take, but you need to edit the series down to a reasonable number.  And due to your current status as indoor kids, you will be doing an indoor story and an outdoor story from your windows.  Fortunately, there’s a lot to see and many stories to tell…even though I feel you don’t really believe me right now…don’t worry…there is always something.

  1. Write down the two stories (one inside / one outside) you want to tell
  2. Describe how your equipment (your phone) is appropriate (or not)
  3. Do a self-critique and write a reflection afterward on both. 

For this lesson, the tools will be very familiar: your smartphone.  You already know how to operate them…you know how to edit (Exposure: darker/lighter, framing your subject, saturation, and cropping just to name a few options).  With that you can utilize certain tried-and-true photographic techniques to aid your storytelling, but also test the limits of your gear (your phone) against your vision.

As for the stories, you can tell the story of what your life is right now, for example.  What is a not normal / now normal typical day for you or for your family.  If you have a brother or sister, interview them and ask them what their life is like, write a story based on that, then come up with pictures that tell their story.  (Or your mom, dad, grandparents, pet, cousin, etc.).  If you feel that your day to day life is too boring, make up a story about how you want your life to be.  Set up your make-believe world and document it with the pictures 

Just because the general theme of the stories are 1. indoor and 2. outdoor, does not mean that you cannot be outside shooting through the window to see the indoors for the indoor theme and vice versa.  You can shoot through the window looking outside for the outside theme; you don’t necessarily have to be outside to convey your story.  Plus think about what you can do to the window in order to have different effects on the photos.  Try fogging it up and wiping parts of it away so that specific things show up or do not show up that are behind it.  Try spraying water on it to create water droplets…approach the window from different angles to see what happens to your picture.  This is the time to experiment with these things…it doesn’t cost any money to take pictures with your phone.  If you don’t like it, just delete, delete, delete…and try, try, try again.

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