Final project revision

After getting your feedback and thinking more into my final project, I have decided to narrow it down to one fairy tale. For my fairy tale, I will be making my own twisted version of it and portraying it through the 10 pictures. The fairy tale I will be using for this project is Snow White. It will consist of three people in the story, Snow White, a huntsman, and the queen. I will be in several pictures because I will most likely be portraying Snow White. It will be set in the woods to mimic a forest for most of the pictures with 3 of the 10 indoors to show the queen and her mirror and so forth. But, the main parts of this twisted tale will take place outside in the woods.

Final Project

Picking my final project topic was a very hard choice for me. At first I wanted to do something with music, because as a music major and a musician, my passion and love for music is something I felt would easily be shown through my photographs. After thinking into this more, I thought of something besides music that I also really love and enjoy and I don’t care that it may seem “childish” to some to like because I love Disney and all things about it. When I thought more into this project, after debating many topics, I finally decided on a topic. The topic I chose is something I felt I would be able to have speak more in my photographs and it is something that I felt more people would be able to relate to in some way or another.  

For my final project, I was thinking of recreating a fairy tale in the 10 pictures we have to take for it. I am going to take a fairy tale story and use my photography to illustrate the story.  I was thinking of using two or three different fairy tales to make it more creative and to show different interpretations of them. I also was thinking of making the fairy tales be fairy tales with a twist, I am still debating if I will be making all of the ones with a twist or just one/two of them with a twist. I think that portraying at least one with a twist will make it a more unique photograph and it will have people see the not-so-typical fairy tale ending come through within it. So, I will be recreating either two or three specific fairy tale stories (I am leaning more towards two stories). 

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Classmate critiques

Melany-  Melany's contrast lighting photo was a photograph of a lamp. Among her six pictures, this picture stood out to me as being really interesting and a good way to capture contrast lighting. Professor Gunhouse did not seem to like the picture of the lamp as much because he said it looked too blurry and bright, probably from a slow shutter speed. I didn't really feel like the picture was out of focus, i felt like where she was focusing on the picture and the depth of field of it made it the way it came out. I think that the picture gave off a good image and I really liked how it came out and how the lighting came out through the picture.

Evan- I really enjoyed looking at Evan's photos. One that we focused on was a more staged photograph where Evan was in a chair with a bottle of wine in front of him and he was angrily/fiercely holding a broken light bulb that had a shot of wine in it. Professor Gunhouse said how the picture was good and how it would be perfect if he wasn't holding the broken light bulb. He noted how the picture was a little too much because of the bulb. Unlike professor Gunhouse, I think that the broken bulb was a part of the picture that you couldn't take out. I feel like without the bulb the picture would be missing something and could even be less powerful and more boring in a sense. I feel like the bulb in the picture is the piece that ties it together to convey the overall affect that he was going for.

Anthony- Anthony's three emotions picture was a clever way of trying to capture three emotions. I think that for trying to capture three different emotions at once he did a good job. Professor Gunhouse felt that this picture would be better if it was cropped in more to around on the man texting as more of the focus point. I think that that could work well if Anthony wasn't trying to capture three emotions. Also I feel like if he cropped out too much then he would lose a lot of the background detail, like of the people walking into the parking garage from outside and things like that.

Scavenger Hunt

a story involving 2 or more people you don't know

 a picture of an MSU building that no one in the class makes 

 a picture that everyone else is going to take

 a picture that everyone will understand without you telling them 

 a picture of something you're passionate about

 a picture of something you hate