Risk Taking

Risk-Taking

What we will do TODAY!

Each day you will try at least one of the following techniques:

Explore a challenging concept!

Question something!

Challenge your beliefs!

Use a prism!

How

Tried it all?

Put a sticky note on your lens to create a "light leak" look.

How

Then let it go...

Grab a camera and go on o walk or a drive. Sometimes the best images come from accidents or unexpected inspiration.

Project textures or photos onto other objects

Take unfocused shots and create bokeh (left) or abstract photographs (right).

Photograph through cut out patterns.

Risk-taking!

Put plastic wrap around

the outside of the lens.

Emphasize reflections rather than the real object.

Annie Leibovitz

The possibilities are endless.

I can't even list all of the ways you can begin to take risks.

No way, Jose!

Oh, yes! I know, I know. All this time I have been hammering into you exposure and composition. But now, my friend, it is time for you to jump into risk-taking!

How do I turn in my project?

Change the way you shoot

New angles! New cameras! New lenses!

Film! Time of day! Place! Subject matter!

EVERY DAY you will email me your best 3 - 10 images. OR you can share them in google drive.

There is a grade for every day!

GRADING:

APPLYING WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED (aperture/exposure/composition...)

AND RISK-TAKING!EXPERIMENTATION!

Henri Cartier Bresson

Other things to try...

Explore a new subject

We tend to go with the familiar. What would challenge you? What scares you? What would be a complete departure from what you do now?

Steve McCurry

Try new techniques

Remember when Scott McCormick said that one photographer would tape a mirror to his lens? And that he would take pictures in reflections? And the photographer that developed film near the old Kodak plant in the polluted river? These are just a few. What about pin-hole cameras? Cyanotypes? Solar prints? Building a camera? Covering your subject in a substance? Long exposure? Infrared film? Instax? Photo transfers?

Out of focus? Different angle? Mixed media (painting on a photo!)? Fisheye lens? Holga?

Cut shapes out and put colored paper behind

Collage

Infrared film - Holga Camera (120)

Holga - Multiple Exposure

Cyanotype

Cyanotype on tile

Multiple Exposure - Cyanotype

Holga - Multiple Exposure

Infrared Film

Submerge objects in clear or colored liquids

Holga

Willem Jonkers - fisheye lens

Cyanotype

Holga/Slow Exposure

Pinhole camera

Instant photography

Paint on your photograph

Sew photos together

Photo transfer

Multiple Exposure - Instant Photography

Photo transfer on wood

Sewing/Mixed Media

Photmontage/Collage

Photo Transfer & Mixed Media

Photo Transfer and Mixed Media

Color Infrared Film

Photomontage - printed photographs/collage

Mixed Media

Painting on photo/mixed media

Sew on top of photos