The objective in Photo 2 is to heighten the craft level of the processing steps and to heighten approaches to making pictures in respect to imagination, visualizing and ideas.
It is important to take care in making your camera exposures, take special concern about the light at all times, develop the film carefully, make high quality work-prints and fine quality final prints. You also need to learn about your camera more and exploit the shutter speed and aperture settings more to affect the resulting photos.
Special attention effort is to be given to the notion of making finer finished work.
©Deborah Smeler
You must use the bag you were given in the photograph. Light is the most important element, then vantage point and composition.
You may shoot one roll only. Shoot the entire roll. Make every picture totally different that the one before and after it. Make 36 different pictures with your roll. An exception is if you want to use a tripod and shoot the same picture with your lens all the way open and another frame with the lens all the way closed down. You need to change your shutter speed accordingly. [You are required to do this 6 times during your roll for those 12 photographs]
Bring to class in one week:
- 1 well crafted contact sheet
- 5 well crafted work-prints [5x7 RC]
- you need to keep and bring the bag with the prints and contact sheet
REMEMBER – LIGHT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT
Remember that light, whether natural or artificial, is more dramatic when coming at the subject at a more extreme angle [i.e. early morning, late afternoon to early evening, or use photo lights with reflectors on location similarly experimenting with the light coming from extreme angles to heighten form, texture, light and dark, and surface].
Shoot pictures with the lens closed all the way down [f/16 –f/22] to see a great amount of depth of field and the same picture with the lens all the way open [F/2 – f/2.8 – f/4 – f/5.6 depending on your lens] to make a selective focus photograph, where only the area you focused on is in focus.
Vary your vantage point. Very very low angle is one special look – from directly above is the opposite, but also special vantage point. Get fluid with the camera and look through it a lot to discover different, unexpected things. Move the camera and tripod around a lot.
Use a tripod for ultimate sharpness. Longer exposures with the lens closed down and the camera on a tripod is a very deliberate and refined way to make photographs.
Experiment with lighting.
You can change the appearance of the bag.
The bag must be in the photograph.
You may check out other bag photographs on the www.union.edu/photo website.
You may check out the work by illustrator/artist Saul Steinberg & photographer Inge Morath for interesting ideas.
You should look at other sources for some ideas also – sources that you might find on your own or be aware of already.
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link to Saul Steinberg's Bags