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Monday, April 7, 2014
Photo I Assignment Suggestions List
New Photography Ideas:
Fears in the perspective
of a young child
Perspective of someone
from the 1800s living in modern day America
Ironic Moments
Pet Peeves
Feeling Lost
“Favorite Things” – when
you have an awful day
High School Dynamic
(Idea: Reality vs. Stereotype)
Your Morality – Your
perception of “good” and “bad”
Abstract Spring
Everything Comes With a
Price
Pure GUTS – moments of
absolute courage
The Power of Silence
Light movement in dark –
EX. Candles, glow sticks, flashlight, etc.
Vulnerability
Transformations
Birds eye
view
Pictures
about your heritage
Emotions (not people)
Light vs. Dark
Photography incorporating text
2 Conflicting places or themes
Challenge: Things in motion
Alphabet
soup=Take photos of items that start with each letter of the alphabet.
Open up to
random page in a book and take photos relating to the page
Take pictures
of eyes of different people
Take photos of
relationships - couples different ages of
couples
Hands- pictures of as many people’s hands as
possible.
Take pictures of anything
normal, but upside down
Things that scare you the
most/fear
Abstract Buildings/Arch
Life in Motion
Dreams- take pictures of your dreams recreate
what happened in them
Sports- different
sports games
One person- instead of
portraits of several people just one person
Peoples favorite possessions
Different ways to say I love you - Nature of love
Work w/ TV studio class on a combined project – video
All reflections (mirrors, water, windows, ect.0
Before/after photos
Recreate a movie (find top 7 or 10 photos from movie and recreate)
Isolation/exclusion -
White animals with all black animals, short person with all tall people, a
single grape away from the bunch of grapes
Each student is assigned a time
decade and they have them research it and then take photos that resemble the time
period
Color assignment-all
photos that have the centerpiece of a certain color - Go to the paint store and
get the sample pieces of paint and give one to each student-their photos must
have the same scale of photos as the paint swatch.
Juxtaposition – compare two things that are reality and
expectation.
Contrast- colors of nature or the world around us
Black and white
Long exposure
Irony- pictures that portrait irony
Throwbacks- pictures that portrait the past
Music-pics that portrait a song, lyrics
A Cause- photograph a cause or something you believe in
Urban- life in the city
An artist/photographer- choose one and try to mimic their styles
Upside down/opposite gravity
Shallowness of society
Depression – portraits of specific feelings
Life NOT in focus on
purpose – selective focus
One day take a picture of the same thing outside every hour or
half hour and see how lighting and everything changes (day in the life of a
store front)
Crowds
Shadows/dif times of day
Long exposures night and day
Create a visual ‘road trip’
Fashion Photography assignment
Shadow/silhouettes
Trains/planes/automobiles
What money can’t buy?
Forced Perspective- all pictures must have a forced
perspective/changing up depth and size
Places unnoticed. Crevices,
backs of closets, under the bed
Write a short story based on a set of your photos
Movie assignment- most DSLR cameras can take video
Double Exposure
Photo sets – triptych = a couple of photos arranged into
one composition Opposites
Jobs/careers
Self-portraits
while dressed up as someone else, Cindy Sherman style.
A photograph of
the objects most important to you, along with an explanation of why you chose
them (possibly superimposed over photo, I’m not sure).
Photograph that
incorporates text, either in the photo or added in afterwards.
Photograph your
autobiography. How would you explain your life in a series of photographs?
(Just like that journal prompt.)
Food photography
– at all levels, costs, types, cultures
Multiple pictures
that make up one picture in a painters cubist style.
Landscape or
Panoramic photographs.
Draw using light
and a long shutter.
Portraits
without taking direct photographs; only use reflections.
Dorsten effect
(picture within a picture).
Pictures of Sounds
– loud quiet…
If it were your last day
Take pictures where only the background is in
focus
How you treat nature. How society treats
nature. How nature treats us.
Portraits from
behind, above, below = Get people all set up for a
portrait, walk behind them and take the picture no matter how bad the back is,
any stray hairs, pins, tape, braces, etc. (what you don’t normally see)
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