Author: Ken Pelka (Page 13 of 15)

Inspiration

Photographing hands, create 10 interesting and varied photos.

Make the hand or hands a dominate element in the compositions.

Pay attention to gestural quality of the hand as well as the light illuminating the hand.

Shoot the following:

Try to keep distracting details out of image by filling the frame

Upload the 10 photos to Flickr, put them in an album labeled Lab 1 Hands

Everyone will work with a partner. Share your images with your partner by viewing Fickr

Select your single favorite of each other’s photos.

Create a new post on OpenLab. Post the favorite photo of your partners and describe why you chose it

Post to open lab/student posts/Lab1

Taking a group of similar objects, arrange them in a pattern. Stick to something small like pennies or M&Ms. Select a background that will set off your objects. Arrange the objects in a pattern that will fill the frame. Then using the rule of thirds, break the pattern. On one of the four intersections of the rule of thirds, change or remove an item. Take the final photo from an overhead view.

Put the photo of the pattern and the photo of breaking the pattern in a post with a short description of your decision making process: how you picked the objects and background and how you decided to disrupt the pattern.

Student posts/ Lab: Week 3 – Breaking the Pattern

Negative space is the background of your photo. It is everything that surrounds the main subject of your photograph.

Review the examples from today’s class topics page to see some of the ways to use negative space.

Find an object to work with. Clean off a space so that the only things seen in the photos are the object and the background. Take a minimum of 10 photos where the negative space is more important than the subject itself. Of these, take a minimum of 5 close up photos of the object so that it fills the frame and divides the background into shapes. Then take a minimum of 5 photos where there is much more background than subject. Experiment with the placement of the subject in the frame. Try all fours sides and corners. By moving your subject around in the frame and varying how much or how little background there is, you can change the mood of your photo as well as the composition.

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Select your best from each group and post to OpenLab. Include a few thoughts on how negative space works in the two photos. What helped you create a more dynamic composition?

Post to student posts / lab3Figure/ground

Post all images shot to flickr Album lab3 figure/ground