The toys project was actually very fun to shoot. For me, the sad portion was harder to shoot than the happy part. Most turned out to be more creepy rather than sad. Lighting was again an issue (like with the shoe project), because I wound up with a lot of blurry, dark photos.  I honestly had multiple favorites and could not settle on my favorite photo from the bunch. The happy shots were taken with aided daylight and the sad shots were taken at night. I also moved my home studio so that my red wall would be the background as opposed to my closet curtain.

I chose to do my rose shoot with a dead rose, because I figured it would very different from the rest of the groups. The absolute hardest part, which I did not discover until halfway through the photo shoot, is trying to make a happy mood with a dead flower. Instead, I re-did the beginning of my shoot and I tried to make it interesting rather than happy, because happy wasn’t translating. I also did not use any miscellaneous objects so it would be kept simple, and took some loose petals to add to the sad part of the photo shoot.

For this week’s assignment I use a Russian doll where I set up the light to create a sad feeling. I set the doll in different ways to create first a few family style photographs that reflect a portrait of an old style family and then something to reflect a tragedy with parts of the doll everywhere.

For this assignment, I used four different stuffed animals to try and convey happy and sad. I felt that doing this assignment at home how was a little harder than I expected. I think this was the case because in class we had our group mates to help us with the placement and set of the toys. At home, we didn’t and so that made it a bit harder for me to try and control the stuffed animals with one hand while taking pictures with the other. I first completed the negative versions of my pictures; I faced both clamp lights away from the subjects. After, when I shot the positive pictures, I faced the clamp light above directly on the stuffed animals.