City Scapes

We were challenged to walk around the neighborhood by Drew and find specific shapes. This project was to explore and really notice all the different shapes on buildings that we usually miss. Our main focus was to finding circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles. We also took shots with mixed shapes. In these photographs we played with contrast and angles. We had to figure out how to capture a simple shape and make it stand out from the distractions in the background.


Circles:

Squares/Rectangles:

       

        

Triangles:

Combos:

Notion of Motion

For this assignment we explored and learned how to capture motion in different ways through a camera lens. First we found an object or a person and shook the camera in different ways as we took the picture. For the second experiment we found another object or person that was moving and followed it with our camera (while in a 1/10 shutter speed). The last experiment we did with motion was in the photography room. We turned off the lights and shut the door so that there was almost no light in the room. One person stood in front of the class moving a white light around. Later we added another light with different colors on it. We played with the different lights in a bunch of ways and set our shutter speed to about 3 or 4 so that we could capture longer movements of the lights. We also tried shining the light on the person in front of the class while waving another around, shaking it back and forth and making patterns. 

Shaking Camera:

Panning: 

                                                 

Moving lights abstract:

Moving lights with figure:

3x3

        

The assignment was to find an object outside and play around with different angles in black and white. I found a No Parking sign hanging on a tree in front of a house up the block from Drew. I captured a bunch of angles and moved around to get a different backgrounds and distances. I cropped a few of them and chose these three to show my approach to the 3x3 aspect. I used the same 3x3 aspect to take pictures of Stephanie and Carly. For Stephanie's picture I played with the shadow behind her from a distance and for Carly's I shot at a lower angle, then a tilted close up for the second.