Project 1 - Place

Project 1- Documentation of a place

Use your camera to document a specific place.  You will take a lot of pictures so find a place that you can move around in and explore.  Outside places will be more fruitful because of the amount of space you will require and to better mimic the conditions of being on safari.  That said, I want you to pick a place that has some meaning to you that you can inspire your photographs.  Whether it is a specific place that has a memory that is personal to you, or the place has a more public history that interests you, it is your job to illustrate your interest in the area through your photographs. 

You can involve people in your shots or avoid them.  You can choose somewhere busy or quiet.  There is no specific way to do the assignment as long as you can put together images that seem to belong to the same kind of “place”.  You must follow these shooting rules:

Six images showing the space using a large depth offield. 

Six images showing a shallow depth of field. 

Six images showing moving subjects, with camera held still.  Try capturing the subjects frozen, the introduce some blur. 

Three images that use panning to freeze the subject as it passes through the camera. 

Six images of objects that are as close up as you canpossible get with your lens.

Nine images taken any way you want.  Try unusual shooting angles. 

You should have at least 36 images to turn in class on Monday.  You will receive direction on how to process the images on Monday.