Week 2 Wrap-Up

W. Eugene Smith, Dance of the Flaming Coke, 1955

Hi Everybody,

I hope you had a great weekend!

I'm really excited by all of the good work that you guys are doing already. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be getting in to a lot more detail about how manual exposure works and how to get the effects that you want when shooting.

In the mean time, on to this week's homework:

1. If you didn't finish last week's homework, make sure you get it posted to the blog this week. Be sure to tag all of your posts with your name.

2. Post your best/favorite photo that you shot during class to the blog. Be sure to caption the image with the compositional technique(s) that you used.

3. Pick a subject or object (can be anything, even a simple object on your desk). Shoot one photograph for each of the following compositional techniques:

• Rule of thirds
• Leading Lines
• Landscape Orientation
• Portrait Orientation
• Viewpoint
• Background
• Framing (if possible)
• Symmetry and Patterns
• Get closer!
• Experiment

Tip: These should all be of the same object or subject, shot in the same session. Don't worry about whether or not the object/subject is "interesting" or makes a good photograph. Just try to make the best photograph possible using each compositional technique. Move around, and keep shooting until you get one you feel is strongest.

Post the best example of  each compositional technique to the blog, and be sure to caption each one so we know which technique you used. If you need a refresher on what each technique looks like, I've posted the slideshow to the class Dropbox.

4. Start thinking about your semester series. Please email me a brief description (a sentence or two is fine) of what you are thinking about as a theme for your series. Even if you aren't sure yet, just let me know!

5. Please read the interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson found here: http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/01/interview-henri-cartier-bresson-famous.html

That's it for now--as always, please be sure to email me if you have any questions or if anything is unclear.