Assignment 4: Learning to Watch
Here you find the fourth assignment of the Pure Photo Workshop. This week Arnika Smit will challenge us.
Please post the photos of this assignment on your blog on June 1th and give the other participants feedback on their photos.
Have fun!
Have fun!
The fourth assignment: Learning to watch
The assignment I want to give you is for you to learn how to watch, how to frame.
I'm giving you a few different tasks that you can work with. The tasks will give you the opportunity to search for a suitable photo.
You can arrange a setting that creates a beautiful photo, or you can of course stumble upon a suitable setting.
Colour
Colour
I want to ask you to make a photo that mostly contains the colour blue. Let your imagination run freely. Look around you.
De eerste foto die ik gekozen heb, is ook gelijk een detail foto. Het mooie aan deze foto vind ik dat de knikker in het midden er uit ziet als een soort sterrenstelsel. Het geeft mij een heel misterieus gevoel en ik wordt eigenlijk met mijn ogen naar deze knikker toegetrokken.
The first part photo's with the colour blue...
Lying on my back I have these pictures taken. The red of the leaves I find beautiful contrasting with the blue sky. It was funny that I only saw later that the blue came through the holes in the leaves around.Liggend op mijn rug heb ik deze foto's genomen. Het rood van de bladeren vind ik mooi afsteken bij het blauwe lucht. Grappig was dat ik later pas zag dat het blauw door de gaatjes in de bladeren heen kwam.
Patterns
Repeating patterns are fun to shoot. For instance, you can think of a flat, pavement tiles, or a row of crayons.
The fun thing is to first think of it, and then try how it works out, for as long as it is necessary for you to end up with the photo you want.
Patterns just in my backyard. During the winter packed with food for the birds now part of the assignment. Therefore I could not decide which I liked better or nicer now, now both posted. The first is what I find beautiful and overexposed by the light. The second by the beautiful image filled with the pattern.
I could not choose
The third is a holiday picture and is made in France. Everything is just right and nothing is out of place.
Patronen gewoon in mijn achtertuin. Tijdens de winter ingepakt met voer voor de vogels nu onderdeel van de opdracht. Ik kon niet kiezen welke ik nu leuker of mooier vond, daarom nu beide gepost. De eerste is wat overbelicht en vind ik mooi door het lichtval. De tweede mooi door het gevulde beeld met het patroon.
Ik kon niet kiezen
De derde is een vakantie foto en is gemaakt in Frankrijk. Alles staat even recht en niets valt uit de toon.
Details
Shoot a detail, a little part of a bigger something. For example a car tyre or a hand. The framing part is very important. What could be a pretty piece to show on your photo, without losing the beautiful frame?
That was really fun to do.
upside down world |
misterious fish |
a different world |
unknown world |
Emotions
Every photo tells its own story. Some photos can make you happy, but sometimes of course some of them also can make you sad. I often try to make a photo where you can almost feel the emotions yourself through the image.
Make a photo in which you can see emotions reflect. It doesn't have to be a photo of a person. Sometimes it's actually more powerful to shoot something that only represents the emotions. Please let us know why this photo is emotional for you.
Slightly depressed.
This picture gives me a moment of disappointment again. Processing a day full of events and then back to reality.
Slightly depressed.
Deze foto geeft voor mij een moment van teleurstelling weer. Het verwerken van een dag vol gebeurtenissen en dan weer even terug naar de realiteit.