PHOTO-DOCUMENTARY
PROJECT FOR CRITIQUE 1
TRM
153
INSTRUCTIONS:
Following
your one-on-one conversation with the instructor, return to one of
your locations along the Connective Corridor. Using a DSLR camera,
take additional photographs. Plan out your shots, and take many. If
your subject is a person, define your relationship to your subject:
Do they know you are taking their picture? Are they taking yours? Is
it collaborative? Are you directing your subject? Are they directing
you? Are you surveilling them?
For
critique, you will select 2 images to present. You will present the
two images (a) individually as two images and (b) as a diptych as
one composite. This means you will be responsible for processing and
saving 3 files in photoshop: Photo A, Photo B, and Diptych. You
may may choose to present your images digitally (projected: 72 dpi,
saved as a .JPG), or physically (as prints:300 dpi, saved as a
.TIFF).
You
will be expected to confidently talk about what decisions are you
making and why. You must also able to articulate how and why you
chose to employ or reject the rules of composition: Rule
of Thirds, Balancing Elements, Perspective,
Shape
and Line, Framing, Symmetry, Texture and Pattern, Background, Depth
of Field, Cropping, etc.
Presenting
your work as individual photographs will allow us to read each image
alone. Presenting them as a diptych will force a relationship between
the images, creating space for us to find meaning between the images.
Just as collage creates and breaks meaning through cutting and
placing disparate things together, so too can your juxtaposition of
two “complete” images. This language also applies to the moving
image (example: sequencing, montage), which we will address more in a
few weeks.
THINGS
TO CONSIDER: Do these images reinforce or contradict one another?
Does one offer detail and the other context? Are they harmonious or
do they clash? What kind of information do we receive by reading them
together?
YOU
WILL BE EVALUATED BASED ON YOUR:
- competency with a DSLR
- conscious use/rejection of the rules of composition
- satisfactory use of photoshop
- verbal articulation of your intended narrative/feeling/content/etc. (concept)
- work that effectively reflects and communicates your intentions/concept
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