Pic with a Pic
I hope you will find this one interesting. It's called "Pic within a Pic"...finding more photos within one photo. This again will hopefully help you to look for the photos you sometimes miss.
Okay so let's say you go to a major league baseball game. Your first one! And in between the hot dogs and peanuts, you think you should take a photo of the field trying to get as much in as possible...infield, outfield, scoreboard, fans in the stands. So you now have a nice photo to put on the Facebook to show that you were at Fenway Park when the Red Sox were sweeping the Yankees :)
It really is a nice photo, but as you are watching the game you notice the bullpen area where the pitchers are really acting kind of silly. Shooting rubber bands at each other, etc. Now this might have been included in your first photo, but this time, you are going to zoom in and focus on just the photo of the bull pen area.
Then your eyes see a couple of the pitchers really goofing around and you decide to zoom in even more and take a photo of just these two pitchers.
So you have three photos. Which one do you suppose would be the 'money shot' that makes it on to someone's baseball blog or maybe somewhere in Sports Illustrated especially if the two pitchers were John Lackey and Jonathan Papelbon? Make sense? (Sorry... yes, I am a baseball nut ..)
To get more ideas on the 'Picture within a Picture' concept, check out the following links:
- Take a look at the four photos of the 'Ft. Vancouver Carpentry shop'. This shows how just getting in closer to your subject can help you find a better photo...one that inspires.http://www.hubbardcamera.com/2009/01/part-22c-rules-and-guidelines-of-photo.html
- Read the first five paragraphs on learning what to leave out of the photo. The example is of the tiger's feet.http://www.geofflawrence.com/photography_tutorial_composition.php
Assignment
Practice the concept of the picture within a picture.
You will take three photos as I described in the baseball field example. This is one SET for the assignment.
I would like for you to take at least 3 SETS... 3 subject areas. For example the baseball field, bullpen, and pitchers would be ONE SET (3 photos). The Vancouver carpentry shop and its photos would be another SET.... and so on.
If you have questions about this assignment, just email me at mindy.holder@sccc.edu.
Also, email me your photos when the assignment is complete.
