Final Project Proposal- New Beginnings

I would really like to have my project on service, but I don't know how many pictures I will be able to take on the Navajo Reservation that wouldn't be cliche. I love taking pictures of nature, I love taking pictures of people. I am having a lot of family over for the holidays, so it would be relatively easy to get some portraits in. The portrait assignment was probably the most difficult for me, which is intriguing, and makes me want to do it again. Last time I took a lot of set up shots, and I would like to get more spontaneous ones this time through. Another idea that crossed my mind was the idea of a  New Beginning. I live right next to a retention dam, and the other day we were driving past and we saw that a section of the fence was totally just gone. We got out to investigate, and saw tire marks going towards the fence, and a crumpled fence down on the rocks below. I have no idea what happened, who it was, or if they are okay - the car was already gone. But it got me thinking. The crash was most probably a terrible experience for those people, and extremely frightening, but I have learned in my life that the greatest changes come from the most difficult experiences. I would like to shoot my project on hope. On the realization after a hard experience that everything will be okay and that you will in fact be better for having gone through it. People too often lose hope in this world, and it makes me sad that they can't see past the hard times! My friend and I after a difficult day, had a sleepover and stayed up late into the night just talking. One of the things we talked about was the concept of happiness. Happiness is a decision - its a choice. It's not a consequence of your circumstances, its a conscience decision to be positive and make the most of whatever comes your way. So things I am thinking about shooting: the fence, New Years, my brother is moving so a shot that tells that story, nature coming through the snow or something, and just anything else that jumps out at me and inspires me over the next two weeks. I am really excited to do this project, I think it will really challenge me to tell a story in my photos, and go deeper into my thought process and preperation. We'll see how it goes!

Cliche photos :)

The first 8 photos are mine. I am very cliche apparently :)

The last two, I have taken before but I found these on google. haha, cliche are fun to take, but i wouldn't do it for real stuff... haha good times :)

Assignment #7 Re-do Bracketing

Trumpet BEFORE

Trumpet AFTER

Bird Ornament BEFORE

Bird Ornament AFTER

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil BEFORE

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil AFTER

Shoes BEFORE

Shoes AFTER

I redid my bracketing assignment, because my previous assignment was okay, but it was just fulfilling the assignment the composition was not interesting at all. So this time I worked on setting up shots that had a little more interest to them. I think my bracketing assignment improved alot this time, and the bracketing was really helpful also. My set up that I thought was the best at the beginning NEVER turned out to be the best one in the end. I could have spent a little more time on this assignment, but in the time that I had i think i did a pretty good job. Fun fun fun!

Assignment #6 - Portraits

At first I didn't really enjoy this assignment, but then i got into it and looking for different ideas and angles and getting really up close to my people in the pictures for some of them and it was really fun. I spent about an hour with my grandpa, and it was really fun to get to spend that time with him.  I learned a lot about light - its hard to get the right light to show what you want about the person and I also learned that dark pictures turn out blurry and underexposed (duh...) when I tried to do the mirror pictures. My favorite by far is the first one of my grandpa- I love it. It just has so much emotion. Overall I think it was a fairly successful assignment, I enjoyed it.

"I Told Him To Think About Being a Marine"

"Stuck"

"Hello?"

"There you are!"

"Grandpa"

"No"

"Undiscovered"

"Reminiscing"

"Photographer/Photographee"