more pictures for harmony/variety from zi farm

Composition Do Over

For my do over on the previous photo assignment, I went with a broader subject (a farmish place near my hometown) and for my two printable pieces, I focused on specifically wood in its different forms that could be found at this place. My compositional elements were harmony and its complement variety. I played with depth of field as my digital element that "only the camera can see."

In the first picture, for variety, all the different shapes of the leaves and the light coming through them next to the different thickness lines of the tree branches and trunks permeates through the entire photograph. The different patterns all over the place, one very delicate, porous, and light and the other very solid, strong, and firm put a lot of tension between them in the picture.

In this photo for harmony, the vertical lines in the grain of the wood and in the trees in the far background, and the one wire going up long the pole harmonize with the other horizontal (but still very linear and less organic than the lines in the first picture) lines. The patterns and rhythms of the natural and man made lines in the scene. Once again depth of field plays a part in the picture, with the main subject in the very close foreground complemented by the distant background textures.

Color Assignment 10/7

Mass Art

Autumn

Forceful

Delicious

Fever

Calm

Renaissance

Iraq

New

Julia

More Vis Lang Homework

These are the first two homeworks from visual language, both collage.

9/30 Assignment

It's been a pretty gross week to shoot, so overall I am not totally thrilled with what I got. I really wish it had been nicer out so I could have shot outdoors and with the sun but such is life. I had to use flash most of the time because it's been so dark. I am also super resistant to converting to digital but that's a whole other factor ( 143Film).

My subject was my lovely room mate Steph who so accommodatingly let me harass her with the camera. I chose her because I felt like photographing an inanimate object so much in the same bland conditions would get really old. My element was "Organization", so I tried more to incorporate the different lines and shapes of the backgrounds into interaction with Steph, and also thought about where I was putting each aspect of the image inside the frame.

This is my Visual Language Fall 2008 blog. Postings of recent work, crits, etc.