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in our weekly photo blog, one of our challenges is to take photos that implement compositional techniques in photography.
Lines and food. It’s funny how much food and math overlap. It doesn’t seem like math is something you should have to think about when cooking or baking. In theory, cooking sounds like an organic process of intuition and experimentation and revision and creativity. I like to imagine a cute, teeny apartment kitchen in France […]
For this week’s challenge, we were prompted to take a photo with an odd number of subjects. In this picture, I focused on just one. I was taking a hike when I saw this man walking up the hill alone. His figure floating along the bright blue sky created a sense of loneliness and exhaustion. […]
I was on a hike with my dad the other day, and I spotted this biker taking in the pretty view. This viewpoint always makes me feel like I’m on top of the world. So much sky. So many teeny tiny houses. Teeny tiny hills. I feel both big and small at once. It’s nice.
I am currently making a narrative film about this little stuffed bunny, and I marvel at how anything can take on life if you give it to it. When I was small, my stuffed animals were as alive to me as my siblings. I would tell myself stories about them, or rather, they would tell […]
When taking a picture for this prompt, I did not want to pose something for fear of portraying unnatural emotions or movement. I think a lot of the beauty of Renaissance art comes not only from the composition of the image but from the movement within the image itself. So, I decided to get my […]
This week’s challenge was to take a photo that employed leading lines. In this picture, I used the lines on the curb to guide the viewer’s eyes to the subject of the photo: shoes. I like the way the shoes imply that the subject of the photo is a person, but they don’t offer much […]
This week, we were challenged to take a photo of a landscape with symmetry. I took this photo of the moon, and I found the way the hills seem to dip around and frame the moon kind of magical. I love the moon; I like to imagine that it is a benevolent, regal, omniscient being. […]
This week, we were challenged to take a picture using the rule of thirds to show motion. I wanted the movement in this picture to feel natural, so I asked my friend to spin around rather than having her do a more forced motion like jumping or running. Spinning around in circles always makes me […]