The Art of Photography: Preparing for Assignement 1

Assignment 1: Contrasts

Key notes:

I need to think of the assignment when preparing exercises in module so that there is a body of work to draw from when pairing photos to represent the visual contrasts- need to find at least four contrasting pairs
Need to make 8 pairs from provided list. I have chosen the following pairs (which will be whittled down to 8 for the assignment):

high/ low: I will try use high and low key photographs to represent this subject. am thinking along the lines of moody atmospheric photographs for low key and very bright almost monotone photograph for the high key
smooth/rough: skin texture will be an excellent medium to represent this
light/heavy: Am trying to avoid the obvious cliche here of feathers and lead, but..... think that the old trick question of what's heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead might not be uninspired
pointed/ blunt: the dish may have run away with the spoon but that spoon was fickle and soon left with the knife
long/ short: Trying to think of something which represents length, like a long journey, and something which is best able to represent something being cut off and I keep on thinking of Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of a starving child trying to make her way to a food camp. This photograph ultimately ended his life too. It is absolutely shocking and not for the squeamish and yet I can't think of anything else at the moment. I will have to come back to this subject later http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/vulture-stalking-a-child/
hard/soft: I will try photograph an egg in various stages of "hardship"
liquid/solid: water and ice and I think I will try and combine the two as my photograph demonstrating the two contrast in one picture
still/ moving: water again.. this time a stagnant pond and a waterfall

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