This is My Title

Today we submitted our photos for the portrait assignment. It's good to be done with them (especially the self portraits), mostly because now I can focus on my final project a lot more. I don't have that much done at this point, but hopefully I'll get going on that and have a bunch of film for next class. I think my biggest problem is that I'm trying to give each of the four shoeboxes an overall theme and wanted to make that theme about various emotions, like happiness, fear, anger, anxiety, etc. For each one I wanted different aspects of the scene to convey one of these emotions by combining a few different images. I'm not sure if I wanted the scenes to be more realistic or not realistic at all, but either way I wanted the perspective and the locations of the pictures to create some abstraction.
...we'll see next Tuesday what I can do with the pictures I take by then... hopefully it'll work out the way I want it to!

In my photography class last year our work was in an exhibit at a local photo museum, the Arthur Griffin Museum of Photography. I focused on double exposures for my photos. This is one of them:

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/gallery/student_photography?pg=7

Our last class left me with a lot to think about. After looking at the photos due yesterday we all came to the conclusion that I like stairs, which I had never really noticed before, but I guess it makes sense. I think it's a combination of things, really. I like angles, shapes, and symmetry, in some cases, which is why I liked the picture that I took of the stairs with the railing at night, up close. I also like people pictures on stairs because I think that people pictures are interesting, including crowd shots. Stairs are just a good location to capture those people. There is also some element of mystery involved in pictures of people going up or down stairs: Where are they going? What are they doing? How does the expression on their face or their body language convey these elements of mystery? There are many things that draw me to those similar themed photographs. Maybe I should include them in my final project...

...which leads me to another thought about yesterday's class. We discussed our ideas for the final project and I am very excited about mine. It seems like a unique idea and will be something that interests me. It will be very interesting to see how this all works out. Hopefully I will have some good ideas for each shoe box scene that I put together... I have started to think about it but there are so many options and so many different directions that I could go in that it's difficult to isolate certain ideas. I'm sure it will all come together in the end, though. As for now, I mainly need to focus on the next assignment due Tuesday: portraits. Self portraits are difficult, though, and I don't personally like taking them all that much, but I'm hoping that they come out well anyway.