For this assignment, we're concentrating on the personal rather than the public. This assignment is aimed at exploring the conflict, emotion, relief, and search for meaning in the universally accessible act of living our lives.
There is, I think, a general assumption that our lives are boring, and yet all human events for all time have happened to someone. It is much more compelling, much more interesting, much more relevant, to tell a story of what is happening to a person, to look at the issues raised, the feelings and what is implied about their relationships via those feelings, even out to the larger issues of society.
Human experience is on some level universal. To tap into that is to open your work up, to connect to others in a real and meaningful way.
It is rather easy to make this sort of work sloppily or superficially. It is not enough to have a strong emotion, or an unusual-looking subject, or a druggie friend. Remember, we are photographers - how can we get an image that is strong, and beautiful (whatever that means), and still nails it, still says something important?
In the back of your head, consider also that we're shooting with the show in mind: can your image stand on its own?
Deliverables: 6 prints, ~11x17. Manage your time.
Make sure that you keep your original large files (anything we shoot is a candidate for the show), but you're also turning in a copy resized to 1600px on the long dimension, jpeg, sRGB, full quality.
IN ADDITION, you will hand in a 1 page write-up, describing what you intended to do, why you wanted to do it, what you thought it would accomplish, and how your final product relates to that original intent. Be smart and thoughtful. Don't just tell me what you photographed, because I can figure that out already. Save this as a PDF.
Files should be named:
Lastname_Firstname_PH341_Assig02_001.jpg, 002, 003, etc.
Lastname_Firstname_PH341_Assig02_words.pdf
Bring them in on your HD or a flash drive, but also upload them the night before. No excuses.
Grading Criteria:
(5) Proper file naming
(5) Proper file size/not screwing it up digitally after you shot it
(20) Aesthetics, print quality
(20) Concept, creativity, originality, problem-solving
(20) Technique and execution of photographs (lighting, technical skills, camera handling, etc.)
(10) Presentation in Critique (cogent, thoughtful, can defend work)
(10) Write-up (reasonable analysis, thought about it ahead of time)