Assignment 1: Obssesive Collections (Part 1)

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Obsessive Collections

This will be a simple shooting assignment to get you started taking images. For this assignment, I want you to act as a researcher and collect as much data as possible. Using any digital camera available, you will take photographs of 'like' things. 

You will need to photograph daily and consecutively. Images of 'like' things should relate somehow. Think about how they are framed and composed. 

For Fridays class, you will bring all of the images you have shot on your media card or hard drive. You should have between 50-100 images to work with. 

• Things to ask yourself when shooting:
  
  
  ·   How is the photograph framed? Is it consistent? 
  ·   Is the light quality working for you or against you? Is it consistent? 
  ·   What would happen if you stepped back 10 feet or got closer to your subject? Or if you stood on a chair or were to lie on the ground?
  ·   Why are you interested in the photograph you just made – and if you are not interested in it, why and what could you do to change that? 

• Possible scenarios to document and collect:

        ·   Every food item you consume.

        ·   Every item you come in contact with that is a certain color. For instance blue or yellow.

        ·   Electrical outlets.

        ·   Doors

        ·   Shoes

        ·   Trash

        ·   Rocks

        ·   Books with the same color spine or author

        ·   A frame houses

       

We will then work on them in Lightroom make contact sheets.

edit   Due:   Friday, September 12, 2014

And bring the files from ALL your images and your hard drive to class on Friday. We will use these files for our first lab exercise in LightRoom and PhotoShop.

Penelope Umbrico