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This week’s photography assignment was to take two pictures of the same subject:  1. A bird’s eye view and 2. A bug’s eye view.  The point of this assignment is to get the photographer to explore different perspectives to make their photographs more interesting.    This week I’ve included my 11 yr. old son’s pictures along with mine.   He has been assisting me on photo shoots since he was 9, but he’s taking the class with his peers.  I thought it was interesting that Daniel (accidentally) included a little bird poo in his bird’s eye view photo!  Enjoy . . .

Daniel’s Photos:

I’m late getting this past week’s photo assignment posted because the files were on Amy’s computer and I just transferred them today.  The assignment I gave my students this week was “fill the frame.”  Another way to say it would be “get in close.”  What I’m trying to get them to see is that too many times we just center our subject and they are often so tiny that they get lost in the frame.  As always, I go out and do the assignment myself each week.  The first shot (Sundrop Logo) was what came to my mind as I gave the assignment.  After I took that shot (and others) I realized it’s harder to completely fill the frame than I had first thought.  I continued to a local graveyard and was successful in getting my subject to fill the frame.

For this coming week I gave my student two assignments.  The could choose which one they wanted to do, but for each of the two assignments they have to submit two pictures.   For any who want to “play along” the assignments were 1. Take two shots of the same subject illustrating blurred action and stopped action.  2.  Take two shots of the same subject illustrating a “bird’s eye” view and a “bugs eye” view.  Let me know if you “play along.”

This past week I taught my students about “leading lines” in photographic composition.  There assignment this week was to photograph leading lines  of any type.  My promise to my students is that I will not go back through my files and pick out a photo that fits the assignment.   I went out yesterday with a couple of our children and in just a few minutes captured my shots.  For me, this was my favorite assignment so far.  Next week’s assignment – “fill the frame”.