Event 3

So, for my event 3, i decided to go in a completely different direction than what I had been doing. Instead of doing something and documenting it, I decided to stage an event and photograph that since this way I would be able to control the event and I wouldn't have to worry about having to participate in it. We were told to have visually appealing pictures that were also interesting while at the same time telling a story. I felt like a murder was a fairly large event and it also provides for some very interesting images, so that is what i decided on. I spent a long time brainstorming and came up with a story of a wife being cheated on which leads to murder when she catches her husband. As cliche as this sounds, I thinks it turned out well and I really like the concept behind it. I really tried paying attention to framing and also the content in my picture and i think they came out really well.

Brown's Island/Tredegar Ironworks shoot 1/2

Last class we took a field trip to Browns Island, which was very interesting and provided for a lot of cool photographs. I didn't know what I wanted my concept to be, so I just took a lot of pictures, which ended up hurting my shoot. I had some good shot of the city which worked together, but then i had some close-ups of some gears and old parts of the Ironworks that were also good images, but didn't work with my other images.

For my re-shoot at Browns Island, I really tied to tie my concept together before shooting because I wanted a set of images that all worked together. When I got there I walked around before shooting to see what there was to actually photograph, and i decided that a lot of the island revolves around the bridges and railroad tracks that are surrounding it. So, that is what i decided to shoot and I feel it turned out well since I really tried to focus on my framing, white balance, and the overall aesthetic of my photos.

Event shoot 2

We were asked to re-shoot our events, so I attempted to re-shoot my "homework" event. I realized that this is really not an event although after homework we visited a friend which began an event, but I really didn't photograph enough of that. I spent more time on the homework portion of the event which ended up hurting my shoot.

Event

We were asked to take images of an event last class, and I found this to be somewhat of a difficult assignment, since it's hard when you actually think about it. What is an event? Why is it interesting? You have to ask yourself all of these things before shooting, and I feel I didn't do that, which is why I am re-shooting this.

City- Shoot Numero Dos

After shooting our City scenes, we were told to go and re-shoot to see if we could get better images. This time, instead of simply going out and simply shooting random things, I came up with a concept- Trash. I tried to go deeper than just simply photographing trash, since that's a bit cliche so some of my images actually show something more than what is on the surface. Like a Find Jobs periodical from the newspaper in the trash can, how ironic since so many homeless people live in Richmond. Or other shot such as a trash can that was broken, so now it itself is trash.

My Casa

Our last assignment was to take photographs of our houses here at school. I really like my house, but I feel like I didn't photograph the best parts of it, I shot more of what i thought was interesting, or weird. I'm not really sure how it turned out, but I feel it was an interesting way of showing people where I live.

Urban Landscapes

I took some shots of the city yesterday night, and got some good results. It's strange how the night shots seem more like Richmond to me, maybe because that's the time that I normally see it, who knows? I think Richmond is a cool city to photograph at night because of all the lights. Also, i managed to sneak up onto a roof of one of the buildings which was a lot of fun and provided for some really nice photographs.