Photography Breadth Assignment #7

Living Painting

Focus: Balance, Content, Composition, Rule of Thirds, Color, Repetition, Line, Value

Goal: Paint or draw on an object, place, or person to give it the illusion of being a painting rather than a photograph. Take a minimum of 5 photographs of the composition that you create.

Process:

1. To begin, make a list in your sketchbook of possible people, places or things that you may be able to use in this project. Though many of the examples showed the whole bust of a person, you don’t have to do a person at all! You can do any object, and put it in an environment. The more detailed you get in the brainstorming stage, the less work that you will have to do once you start shooting.

2. After you have a very clear understanding of not only what you are going to paint, but what is going to be in the background as well, then you will begin setting up your composition my first painting the background if you are using a painted background, and then the person or thing you are going to paint.

3. Begin shooting the composition you created. You must create a minimum of 5 different images. You may want to use a tripod for this. To change up the image you may try the following:

• Changing the perspective in which you take the photo (worm's eye, bird's eye)
• Change the position of the subject matter
• Change the lighting
• Adjust the distance you are from the object
• Play with different focal points
• Zoom in and out of the subject matter