Assignment 1 : From the archive
- Posted on:
- November 14 2009
- Posted by:
- moggsterb
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- Assignments
For this exercise, I am going to look through my entire photography archive and try to find 4 contrasting pairs.
It seems quite straight forward:
Black
White
Black and White is fairly obvious. A full frame white against a full frame black.
Many
Few
Many and Few means a lot of cans, against a few candles.
Long
Short
Long and Short means a long undershot of a bridge and a small daisy.
High
Low
A high shot and a low shot.
Looking through these shots, they are all fairly obvious. I think it’s easy to get sidetracked into just selecting the shots that match the brief without any real thought.
In the “high” and “low” shots however, both images are less about the subject, more about the viewpoint.
Similarly in the “long” shot, the composition gives a feeling of great length. Whereas, the “short” daisy could in fact be any size – there’s no real sign of “shortness”.
I think I need to consider how I can best utilise form, viewpoint and depth of perspective to get my message across. For example, in long and short, I could use the same subject but shoot one with a long focal length, the other a short.
I also need to think about how the lighting and the shadows can also demonstrate the difference between the pairs.