Week 9: Research Expo

Week 8: In our Photography II Class, we are focusing on taking photographs of our school's research expo. We were tasked with taking the photographs and categorizing them in the following categories, still life, artist and their work, and artists in conversation. Here are the results.

Craft: The Craft of this assignment is the following: Digital SLR Camera (Canon E05 Rebel T5i), phone camera, a computer and Adobe Photoshop. As this was mainly a promotional-style assignment, the majority of the work was done with the camera with minimal post-processing done in Adobe Photoshop to accommodate over-exposure, color correction, and cropping the image to get the best composition and image.

Composition: During class, we were tasked with taking photographs in several different categories in rapid succession of one another. A reason for this was the fact that some of us had a limited time being there due to other commitments. As a result, there was a spontaneity of the photos we took. Often, we had mere minutes to take successful images in one category before moving onto the next. The three categories of three images we took were still life photos of the various interesting objects on the tables, the second one was taking photos of the artists and their work, and the third was having people in conversation genuinely speaking to one another about the exhibitions. As I was there early to help set up the show, I did not have time to get my camera, I had to improvise with my phone. Once the photos were taken, they were edited in photoshop to make them presentable.

Concept: In this project, we were tasked with taking nine images on three different categories, still life, the eye of the artist, and artists in conversation. This was during the research expo of our school, we were tasked with taking the best photos regarding research, enthusiasm, and advertisement. As we were creating photos that would possibly be used as promotional pieces or for display, making sure that they followed the standards of thirds and competent composition was important when we were considering which photos were good and which were bad from the ones we took. Finding ones that felt genuine and were attractive was a difficult one at times, especially for those of us that were unprepared and only had cell phones to take the images. But perhaps the amateurish feel of the camera photos will provide that needed genuine feel.