PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY PROJECT FOR CRITIQUE 1

PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY PROJECT FOR CRITIQUE 1
DUE NEXT WEEK! SEPTEMBER 26!

INSTRUCTIONS:

Following your one-on-one conversation with the instructor, return to one of your locations along the Connective Corridor. Using a DSLR camera, take additional photographs. Plan out your shots, and take many. If your subject is a person, define your relationship to your subject: Do they know you are taking their picture? Are they taking yours? Is it collaborative? Are you directing your subject? Are they directing you? Are you surveilling them?

For critique, you will select 2 images to present. You will present the two images (a) individually as two images and (b) as a diptych as one composite. This means you will be responsible for processing and saving 3 files in photoshop: Photo A, Photo B, and Diptych. You may may choose to present your images digitally (projected: 72 dpi, saved as a .JPG), or physically (as prints:300 dpi, saved as a .TIFF).

You will be expected to confidently talk about what decisions are you making and why. You must also able to articulate how and why you chose to employ or reject the rules of composition: Rule of Thirds, Balancing Elements, Perspective, Shape and Line, Framing, Symmetry, Texture and Pattern, Background, Depth of Field, Cropping, etc.

Presenting your work as individual photographs will allow us to read each image alone. Presenting them as a diptych will force a relationship between the images, creating space for us to find meaning between the images. Just as collage creates and breaks meaning through cutting and placing disparate things together, so too can your juxtaposition of two “complete” images. This language also applies to the moving image (example: sequencing, montage), which we will address more in a few weeks.

THINGS TO CONSIDER: Do these images reinforce or contradict one another? Does one offer detail and the other context? Are they harmonious or do they clash? What kind of information do we receive by reading them together?

YOU WILL BE EVALUATED BASED ON YOUR:

1. competency with a DSLR
2. conscious use/rejection of the rules of composition
3. satisfactory use of photoshop
4. verbal articulation of your intended narrative/feeling/content/etc. (concept)
5. work that effectively reflects and communicates your intentions/concept