Personal Series 2

Assignment 16: Continuation of personal series. This week we were supposed to continue our work on our personal series, mine being different walls close-up. I tried to improve this week by focusing on more specific aspects of wall textures. I wanted to go for more abstract, painterly, quirky, and imperfect pictures rather than uniform walls and textures with nothing special. I looked for a lot of imperfections such as cracks, drips, discolorations, and writing on the wall and kept away from plain bricks or perfect walls. Additionally, I payed more attention to the editing and upped the contrast a little to help enhance the textures and imperfections of the walls. I kept them all in black in white (again) to reduce the distraction of color and to keep the focus on the wall's texture/imperfections/artistic/classy feel.

Personal Series

Assignment 15: Personal Series. This week we were supposed to choose a style or theme that we wanted to explore in our own series. I decided on the theme of taking pictures of walls/fences. I explored with many different types of walls: wood, concrete, brick, etc. I also chose different angles and places to take the picture (ie. corner, straight forward, etc). I took the pictures close up so that the textures were easily seen and the details of the wall all came through in the photo. While editing, I made them all black and white so I could focus on the simple features of the wall without the distraction of color.

Negative Space

This week's assignment was negative space. The idea was to try to make the focus of the photo the shape of the background/space around the subject. We were encouraged to use silhouettes, shadows, and different objects to get various different and interesting styles of negative space.