School project help please

[ShaneKPhotography]

I agree with the others who said you need to do your own thinking on this but I think I'm going to attempt this assignment myself! Thanks.

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[Village Idiot]

Creativity is what this is all about, if you don't have it you will be stuck - I am not trying to do your work for you but here are a few things to get your brain working in the right direction.

1. make a photo that ask a question that hasnt been asked before - shoot something in nature that looks like a question mark.
2. make a photo 20 years into the future - HDR
3. make a photo which makes the ugly beautiful - ?
4. make a photo of the world the way you want it to be - anything you want
5. make a photo of something never seen before - macro
6. make a photo that reflects a fear - spider, snake, dark room
7. make a photo that makes the familiar unfamiliar - macro
8. make a photo that takes you to a place you have never been before - anywhere you haven't been

Sweet, way to do someone's homework for them.

[unpopular]

1. Consider looking into postmodern art, which concludes that all questions have been asked already - and there isn't anything original in the world. Taking a cue from the postmodern philosopher Richard Rorty, the only way to create something new is to misinterpret that which has already been answered.

2. What kind of future do you think is inevitable? Maybe you see some doomsday environmental disaster scenario or perhaps a utopian future free of war, misery and greed. If you don't think much will change 20 years down the road then maybe images of the most mundane variety - or conceptualize with repeating images.

3. This shouldn't be difficult at all, the conceptual problem is that once you have succeeded the subject is no longer ugly. I think a more interesting approach is to look more at the relative nature of aesthetics than trying to do exactly as the assignment requires. Consider photographing things like garbage dumps, gutters, aleys - but to excel at this assignment, you'll need to address the issue that the subject isn't ugly if it's made beautiful. Consider taking several angles, first aiming for beauty, then aiming for as ugly as possible, present the two together but make sure that they are both recognizably the same - try to create tension between the two photographs and force the audience to question their own sense of aesthetics.

4. Only you can answer this, but think about when you are most content. Do you like being alone or with others? Don't think about the "world" so much in terms of political ideologies but rather you're own personal world and what makes you happiest.

5. Again, consider a postmodern approach to this - or make a photograph depicting your darkest, most personal secret.

6. Focus on the emotion of fear, and that which evokes it - concepts such as abandonment, loneliness, conformity, death

7. Again, there is a conceptual problem. Once you succeed, it is no longer familiar. This problem exists because a successful photograph is an object of it's own, and not just a cheap facsimile of the subject. In other words, a photograph of a familiar subject made unfamiliar will always be unfamiliar - this especially true in this sense because the image bears no resemblance of the subject. Consider the process of becoming unfamiliar, rather than just obstructing the viewer from the consensual way of seeing the subject. Your teacher is going to be getting lots of macros and blurry pictures of otherwise recognizable subjects. Consider documenting decomposing flowers or fruit, objects set afire until rendered to ash, water damage, etc.

8. Consider documenting something outside your comfort level, maybe a family from another culture or a community that differs considerably from your own, try to really capture daily life in this "alien" world.

ETA: Don't worry about "not doing the assignment right" - doing the assignment "right" will result in stale, old, unimpressive results. I'm not saying to go off in the willy-wads and just do whatever you want, but I think it's important to push the criteria a little beyond what is immediately obvious.

[untouchednalive]

This is a very interesting assignment, once i am done with mine I wil try this one for sure!

[JWellman]

Old post but I'm glad I saw it today. It's raining and I need photo ideas. Hopefully the OP's homework list will help me a little. Too bad he/she didn't come back to share what they did.

[lieforalie]

Old post but I'm glad I saw it today. It's raining and I need photo ideas. Hopefully the OP's homework list will help me a little. Too bad he/she didn't come back to share what they did.

Yeah, I noticed that this got bumped recently after a few months, but it looks like a fun project. I might give it a try for my own benefit.

[JWellman]

I've done four of the eight so far. Interesting subject matter indeed!

[lieforalie]

I've done four of the eight so far. Interesting subject matter indeed!

I thought that some of your recent photos on your 365 project sounded familiar. :P

[mommyphotog]

Just because an object has been seen before doesn't mean that it's never been seen in a different light or how about a scene with people doing something outrageous that's never been seen before,

Nicely said. I think I might do this assignment on my own though. Get my creative juices flowing.

[JWellman]

I've done four of the eight so far. Interesting subject matter indeed!

I thought that some of your recent photos on your 365 project sounded familiar. :P

I'm stuck at the moment! I have a few ideas but time and resources are coming into play. Hopefully I'll be able to finish the list next week.

[gizmo69]

I think it is better for you taking the time to think about original ideas. I had a challenge here in France about the theme "chambre enfants". You may browse different photos blogs, go into different places, which can be a good way to get some ideas.

hoping it will help you

Yvan,

[Boogeyman]

Creativity is what this is all about, if you don't have it you will be stuck - I am not trying to do your work for you but here are a few things to get your brain working in the right direction.

1. make a photo that ask a question that hasnt been asked before - shoot something in nature that looks like a question mark.
2. make a photo 20 years into the future - HDR
3. make a photo which makes the ugly beautiful - ?
4. make a photo of the world the way you want it to be - anything you want
5. make a photo of something never seen before - macro
6. make a photo that reflects a fear - spider, snake, dark room
7. make a photo that makes the familiar unfamiliar - macro
8. make a photo that takes you to a place you have never been before - anywhere you haven't been

Sweet, way to do someone's homework for them.

yeah but in my opinion if the op goes off that, they will end up turning in some bland pictures.

[tevo]

Im jealous of all these cool assignments. The only photo class at my school is beginning photography, and we get stuff like "herpaderp show a line"

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