Required Tools: A camera
Location: Outside of your home
Duration: 35-40 minutes
Premise:
Photographic composition reduces the world to a series of shapes organized on a two-dimensional picture plane.
To continue seeing photographically we will look at shapes in the world, and create similar forms in our cameras.
Objective:
Photograph shapes. Document existing forms. Use the camera to create new forms from the lines and structures around you.
Transform rectangular forms into triangular ones and vice versa. Consider the placement of squares and rectangles in relation to the lines of your frame. Make ovular shapes from circles and circles from ovals. Intersect these round forms with the edges or the corners of your frame. Note the ways in which space is collapsed within the frame.
Submission:
You should shoot at least 20-30 images and upload them to Flickr. Share your best 3-4 with our group. Create a new post in our OpenLab course with your best image.
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