2022 SPRING: 12: ASSIGNMENT THIRTEEN: SUMMERTIME - AND THE LIVIN' IS EASY

DUE MAY 3,2022

SUMMERTIME – AND THE LIVIN’ IS EASY

NOTE: THIS IS ALSO A “FREE WEEK” SO YOU CAN CHOOSE TO DO ANY OF THREE THINGS:

ONE:
You can redo a previous assignment that you feel you can do a whole lot better.
One assignment.

TWO:
You can do an assignment you missed and get closer to be caught up.
One assignment.

THREE:
You can do this “summertime” shoot.

There are not many parameters other than this shot should be an iconic “summer” shot with YOUR OWN TWIST.

Don’t go shoot a swimming pool, or some swim fins, or a melting ice cream shot… tell me a story.

In fact, you can submit up to three images to tell your “summertime story”.

JUST BECAUSE IT HAS NO ‘RULES’ DOESN’T MEAN IT CAN BE ‘MAILED IN’… NO WAY. I WANT A KILLER, BRILLIANT, AWESOME, INCREDIBLE IMAGE THAT PULLS ME INTO YOUR SUMMERTIME!


I may just find a tree to park my bike under… and have a beer.

What constitutes summer for you?

For me;

  • flowers
  • swimming
  • camping
  • hot days
  • hot nights
  • burgers on the grill
  • motorcycling through the mountains
  • eating late
  • ice cream
  • fireworks
  • road trip
  • backyard hangouts with the grill
  • sunsets
  • bright skies
  • summer rain
  • riding my bicycle early in the morning
  • walking in the dark

I took two minutes to write this list up. I just free associated and wrote them down.

Now let’s look at different camera choices I can make;

  • hyper color
  • muted color
  • telephoto POV
  • wide-angle POV
  • high POV
  • low POV
  • natural light
  • strobe light
  • strobes and natural light
  • location
  • studio
  • environmental
  • black and white
  • collage
  • diptych
  • story
  • hero shot
  • people shot
  • motion (like on a bike)

There are probably dozens more, but this took me one minute.

Putting them together is the next step.

Flowers with:
hyper color
muted color
telephoto POV
wide-angle POV
high POV
low POV
natural light
strobe light
strobes and natural light
location
studio
environmental
black and white
collage
diptych
story
hero shot
people shot
motion (like on a bike)

Does that get the idea motor going?

I do this a lot.

Let me know your experience doing it your way.

IMAGES JUNE 26, 2019