My Photo 2 teacher asked us to write a photo diary, about things we shoot, or want to shoot, or basically anything that comes to mind that has to do with photography so here goes:
So, we just got done making our shadow grams, which I had a little trouble with. I mean making them is obviously really easy, but coming up with an idea for it was not. I mean, I’m all about creating an emotion in a photograph, but it’s so hard to do that with shadow grams. We’re supposed to make something that I guess looks “cool” and makes you wanna go “Woah dude that’s awesome”, but I’m not really into making a photograph look “cool”.
I want feeling and emotion. I don’t know, it was sort of a challenge for me, because I’m so much more into photographing faces and people. So this whole camera-less photography takes me out of my comfort zone, which in some ways is a good thing.
I’m so used to creating an image in my head and then shooting it, but with shadow grams there’s a bit of spontaneity, and I think that’s what I loved about it the most. I didn’t really sit and think “Hmm, what will my shadow gram look like?’, instead it was like “Oh, what if I put this in my shadow gram!? Or this?”, and it was mainly trial and error. I think I printed a 4x5 like four times before I was content with my shadow gram. I decided what I wanted it to look like as I was making test prints and so each time I would add something new.At first it was just a clear round bowl, then I added some negatives as the borders, and then I went outside and grabbed some sand and used that.
And in the end, I guess it came out looking pretty darn “cool”. Oh and I think I have a really cool idea for the “FACES” shoot, which I still need to do.
