For this project we had to go to 15 people and ask them if we could take 2 pictures of them; 1 smiling and 1 not smiling. This project was difficult because I was afraid to ask people and usually when I did, they said no. For some of the pictures, you can see a big difference between the smiling picture and the non-smiling picture. One of the things you can see is that the person doesn’t look that nice or happy in the non-smiling picture, but in the smiling picture, the person looks a lot more happy and friendly. One of the things that can affect a photographer taking pictures is their bias towards the client/subject. For example, if the client is a single parent raising two kids, then the photographer might put them in a power pose versus if the client/subject was homeless and/or poor, the photographer might make them look a little bit sadder in the picture. If I got hired, I wouldn’t ask the person’s background, or job, I would ask how they feel, or how their life is going for them because is I ask about their background I know I’ll have a bias. Here are my photos 🙂
Light Graffiti
For this project, we went in the pitch black gym. To get these photos, we had to keep the camera open for 15 seconds, point our flashlights at the camera, and draw. To write words and draw pictures we had to shine our flashlights at the camera and cover up the light whenever we wanted to make a space (Draw “H”, cover light, move the light, uncover the light and draw “i”). To do the pictures with people in then, we followed the drawing steps but then shone the light on the person we wanted to show, to “paint” them. When we were doing our backgrounds, it was hard for everyone to work together and not have many lights going on top of each other. I think if we could leave the camera open for longer we could have less pressure to rush the picture and make a bigger and better scene. Here are my other pictures.
