Historical Photographer Project Reflection

Historical Photographer Project Reflection

1.      What did you learn about your photographer and about yourself from this assignment?

2.      How did you re-interpret your photographer’s style?

3.      Describe your most successful image, explain how is it your best, why are you happy with it?

4.      Describe your an image that you were not happy with, why were you unhappy with it?

5.      What were you happy with? What excited you? What frustrated you? What would you do differently if you could do it all over?

6.      Think of a name for your image for the hallway frame.

11 Book/Theme Project

• Plan your book: write/brainstorm a few ideas of what you are interested in photographing. Then once you decide on your topic, write a short outline of your topic 2-3 sentences. Find 5+ images to clarify/inspire your topic.
• 3++ Contact Sheets exploring different mediums/styles/techniques.
• 8 Prints organized professionally in a Book
• Front and Back Cover with a title and your name (cover can be same image as one in book).

Photograph a basic topic that interests you (i.e. the ocean, or street life) and compile a series of 12 photos in a book. Each image should have a strong composition and be able to stand on its own, but share a common thread. Each image should be framed in a unique way that showcases your series effectively. You must take at least three "rolls" (min. 20 images each) or engage in 3+ shoots to construct your series and submit at least 3 contact sheets of your idea development. Try a few different photographic mediums or techniques to creatively explore your topic. You will be organizing your work in a final book, but the final product is up to you- you can mount and bind it yourself, or you can have it published. If you print and bind it yourself, then the book should be no more than 5 x 7 in size. There should be a cover that reflects the contents of the book with a title and your name.

Here are some links to inspire your concentration/book projects... to name a few...

Anne Geddes-  Babies
Phil Borges - Women
Robert Frank - Americans
Richard Avedon - American West (look under archive, and portraits)
Andreas Gursky - Consumerism
Mary Ellen Mark - Mexican Circus
Colleen Plumb - Animals Are Outside Today
Sandy Skoglund - Installation works based on pixels.
Misha Gordon - Manipulated political photographs.
Michael Kenna - B/W Large Format Landscapes minimalist
Scott Edwards - Extreme close up botanical forms
Lois Greenfield - Dance portraits
More Links

Here is a list of themes and items that may be interesting to shoot to get you started.
Abandoned Buildings
Abstracts
Amphibian
Anger
Arches
Architecture
Autumn
Back Alleys
Bad Weather
Bald Heads
Balloons
Bare Feet
Bark
Barns
Bees
Bicycle Parts
Bikes
Birds
Black and White
Blimps
Blue
Bolts
Bones
Books
Bottles
Bridge
Bridges
Broken Glass
Bronze
Brown
Bump
Butterflies
Butterflies / Bees
Campsites
Car Details
Catching People Unaware
Cats
Celebrations
Choice
Church Windows
Churches
Circles
City Hall
City Skylines
City Street Scenes
Close-up
Clouds
Cold
Colours
Contrasts
Covered Bridges
Critters
Culture
Curves
Custom Cars
Dancers
Decorations
Demonic
Demonstrations
Devilish
Digital
Disappearing Professions
Disappearing Technologies
Dishes
Documentary
Dogs
Domestic Life
Doom and gloom
Door Knobs
Doors
Dots / Dashes / Diagonals
Drawers
Duplicates
Easter
Eggs
Elation
Embrace
Emergency Situations
Enthusiasm / eager
Environmental Trash
Events
Eye Glasses
Eyes
Family
Fashion
Farm Animals
Feathers
Feet
Feisty
Feline
Femininity
Fences
Fetes & Festivals
Fetish
Fire
Fire Engines
Fireworks / Fire
Fish
Flags
Flower Petals
Flowers
Food
Forks
Forms in Nature
Fountains
Framed
Freeways
Friends
Frozen
Fruit
Games
Gardens
Gates
Gears
Geriatric (older folks)
Glamour
Glass
Gold
Graceful
Graffiti
Green
Halloween
Hallways
Handles
Hands
Happiness
Harbours
Harvest
Hats
Hidden
History
Holiday
Horizon
Horses
Hot Rod Cars
Hunger
Ice
Inclines
Indian Ruins
Indigenous Things Or People
Industrial
Insects
Inspiration
Iridescent
Iron
Isolated Objects
Jails
Jets
Jewelry
Jobs
Joints
Journalistic
Joy
Jugs
Junk Yards
Keys
Kids
Kin or Families
Kite
Kites
Knives
Landscapes
Lazy
Learning
Leaves
Legs
Letters
Light
Lightning
Lights
Locks
Machine Parts
Macro
Marine life
Masculinity
Masks
Mass flowers
Mirrors
Money
Monuments
Mood
Movie Theater Marquees
Muse
Mushrooms
Neon Signs
Night
Night lights
Nighttime
Nonsense
Noodles
Numbers
Nut
Nuts
Objects
Odd Couples
Old Everything
Olympic
Opposites
Opulent
Orange
Pairs
Paper Abstracts
Parallel Lines
Patterns
Peacocks
Peeling Paint
People
People At Work
People Walking Dogs
Peppers
Perspective
Pets
Pictures in Pictures
Piles of Things
Pink / Purple
Polished
Porches
Quad
Quarters
Queens
Railroad Cars
Railroad Tracks
Raindrops
Rainbows
Red
Red Barns
Reenactments
Reflection
Reflections in Glass
Reflections in Water
Religious
Roadscapes
Rocks
Round Things
Rows of Things
Rust
Rustic
Sand dunes
Sand Patterns
Sea Shells
Seascapes
Seasons
Self
Shadows
Shoes
Signs
Silhouettes
Skulls
Sky
Sleeping Animals
Sleeping People
Small Furry Animals
Smiles
Smoke Stacks
Snow
Soft Curves
Sorrow
Spanish Moss
Speed
Spoons
Sports
Spring
Squirrel
Stacks
Stairs
Statues
Steam Railroads
Still life
Strange Signs
String Instruments
Structures
Summer
Sunrise
Sunset
Superstitions
Sweets
Swings
Tattoos
Teddy Bear / toy
Textures
The Local School
The spot (X marks it, you know)
Toads
Tombstones
Tools
Tools of the Trade
Transport
Tree Knots
Trees
Ugly Everything
Umbrella
Umbrellas
Ungulates (hoofed animals, pigs, goats, deer horses)
Uniforms
Urban
Utensils
Vacation
Valves
Vegetables
Vices or Habits
Views
Vignettes
Vines
Visitors
Watches
Water
Waterfalls
Weather
Weathered Wood
Wet
Wheels
White
Wide Angle Everything
Wildlife
Windows
Winter
Woods
Xenon
Xenophobia
Xylophones
Yachts
Yellow
Yo-yos
Zebras
Zig Zags
Zipper
Zombies!
Zoos
to name a few... Now get out there and take some great photographs!