Week 12

Week 12
November 17th, 2010

I brought in some pictures I took at the Verve for my photo story today. I already know I need to go back to get some more shots of Abe and Heather. The ones I got weren't properly exposed, and it doesn't show them in their element. It just shows them casually sitting in the lounge area. I hope to get some more ideas from the critique in class today.

Editing the photos:
Group for redundancy, then pick the best

Group by relationships:
444●Complementary: The blacksmith exhibiting pure strength in two different photos. These complement each other.
444●Contrasting: Put a photo of the blacksmith nursing a child next to one of her exhibiting strength. The two photos will contrast each other.

These groupings will create chapters to the photo narrative.

Sequence to create narrative:
4444●Thematic
444●Chronological

Action, setting and narrative make a great lead photo. It is difficult to get all three in one shot.

Thoughts:
Today we talked about how to edit and group photos. This will help when it comes time to select the photos for the final essay. It is important to understand how photos are related, this way they can be properly grouped and the redundant ones can be removed. I will use the methods we talked about in class to figure out which of my photos will go into my story, and which ones I will cut. I really liked the examples we looked at in class. There were great photos and helped explain the grouping and editing process to us.