Week Four Assignment

Principle: Inspiration and Creativity

Task: Plan a shoot around “something” that has inspired you that is not related to photography trend (those ideas that we see repeated again and again by photographers

We want to practice the idea of finding inspiration in ALL THINGS in the world around us.

Some idea starters may be some of the following: Movies, objects, books, illustrations, food, chores, colors, locations, concepts, poems, childhood memories, music, lyrics, an activity, lighting or mood, things around the house, an emotion, etc. etc.

Remember: Use a shot list, posing/idea guide, and pre-plan. An interview with your subject can also be a great source of inspiration for a shoot.

Post: Your favorite 3 images. Please explain the source of your inspiration.

I planned this shoot around my kids. I wanted to capture something that was important to them and something they love to do. It wasn't the brightest room so I tried to keep the noise down in my pictures, not my greatest job. I do struggle with indoor light so I wanted to try something inside, plus they read most of their books on my little boys bed so what better place to take them then there. I wanted it to feel natural for them. Don't get me wrong there was lots of screaming and fighting over books.

Thank you Brooke for all your amazing advice. You are a wonderful teacher and photographer!

Week 3

I kind of skipped ahead. I planned this shoot last week knowing I would have my nieces and nephews at my house for the weekend. I asked them what they think would be fun to do while they were at my house. I planned on taking my 2 kids and the younger nieces for the shoot, knowing the little kids would think it was funnier. They decided it would be fun to do a picnic so I stopped by walmart and grabbed the girls some matching clothes, grabbed the quilt to my little girls room and a picnic basket I had stored away. I let the kids pick out some fruit from my kitchen since I had just picked up my bountiful basket for the weekend. Took them up the street to a hill I love and let them just have some fun. I love how these pictures turned out!
This is my niece as she watched the other kids play "ring around the rosie" All she cared to do was eat her apple. And I got great pictures of her doing just that.

Week Two Assignment

Principle: Posing

Task: Choose your own subjects to shoot using your posing guide. How can you vary the pose?

Remember: Use a shot list and pre-plan.

Post: your favorite pose with 3-5 variations (their perspective and your perspective).

Due Date: Tuesday Night

Posing??? This is what I struggle with. I always have all these ideas in my head and when I get to the shoot all my great idea's float away and I'm left looking like I don't know whats happening and hoping they are professional models that will have all these poses in their pocket, but we all know that never happens. I love Brooke's advice on showing them with your own body, I am always trying to move them with my hands like they are my dolls. It never goes over well. My week was way to crazy and didn't have any pictures lined up so I kindly asked my cute neighbors if they would model for me for these pictures.

Week 1

I planned this shoot at a location where there was a building that caught my eye. It was by a busy post office but knew I wanted some outdoor pics as well. I wanted to try and capture all by shots at the one location. I exhausted the location and realized I could make one little section of overgrown grass on the side of the parking lot look like we were in the outdoors and no one would know there was about 6 broken down cars 10 ft to the side of us. Planning before helped so much on knowing exactly what I wanted to get out of this shoot.