I need a photo project, ASAP!

[tominabox1]

Hey everybody, I hope your week is going well.

I have a final photo project due for my Beginning Photography class in a couple weeks but we have to tell our prof what we want to shoot for it tomorrow. I have till 2:30 on Thursday to decide.

I have to turn in 2 8x10 b/w prints. Im just looking for ideas for interesting projects.

Some stuff we've already done:
Portrait in context
motion
light and shadow
surreal
beauty
foreground/background
similarities in dissimilar things


So if you have any ideas, feel free to pass them on!

Thanks!

 

[eli griggs]

Toes are always fun and easy to find. Toes with paint, toes with rings; freaky toes that look like fingers and those toes that are longer than the big toe. Don't forget those missing toes from motorcycle accidents and camp axes!

Don't got toes? Ask your friends or strangers on the street; most everyone gots toes!!!

Cheers

 

[wlewisiii]

For this kind of project, I enjoy doing industrial landscape. Especially if you live in a rustbelt area and can find an abandonded factory complex in the snow. Concentrate on either the smallest details or the widest angles and you might find something worth an 8x10 sheet of paper.

William

 

[rbiemer]

I thought of several silly answers to your question but I'll not share those.
Couple of things come to mind, though:
Of the projects you've already done, did any of those engage you enough to want to explore them further? That might be something to think on.
What about combining two of those "themes" and seeing where that takes you? (examples: "portraits in motion" or "surreal beauty" or somethings like that)
And one of my personal "things": trying to represent color in BW photos. In other words, how would you take a BW photo of, say, "red"?

OK, I can't help myself. Here's a silly one:
You:"Got any nude photos of your partner?"
Prof: "No."
You: "Want some?"
(if the answer is "Yes.", then You: "Can I have some?") 🙄 Sorry for the really old joke but I have to get these things out of my head...
Rob

 

[Athena]

Look at the current "W/NW Simon Says..." thread and drew some inspiration from it.

 

[tominabox1]

Thanks guys, I have a nice list now but please keep sharing! Some great ideas out there.

 

[OurManInTangier]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned abstracts yet! That was always an old chesnut when I was knocking around college. It means you can photograph virtually anything but make it barely recognisable. Along the same theme is to take one location - a town centre building for instance, then take a whole series of photographs around the building in various photographic forms - abstract, architectural, candid of people walking in/around/past, human interaction within the building, mix of man made building and nature etc etc. Then you've got yourself thinking of imagery soley and you should have some good images to choose from.

 

[tominabox1]

Simon: our next project that is due this Tuesday is surreal (sort of abstract right?) I have had buidings suggested and I like the idea too.

Keep em coming! This sure is fun 😀

Tom

 

[Brad Bireley]

Here's one....When I was in college back in 73'...I had a similar problem. What I did was took 1 hour & just photograph the inside of a bathroom. The bathroom had the old claw foot tub with the neat handles on the spigots. I ended up taking close up the handles.

Brad

 

[dazedgonebye]

Architectural details. Often, even uninteresting buildings can be good subjects when you slice them up visually.

Narrow dof is another good theme. I like to shoot near macro shots, maybe 1:4 to 1:2, and instead of working to maximize the dof, make the narrow dof work for you. Up close and narrow.

Here's a gallery devoted to that theme: http://www.pbase.com/dazedgonebye/narrow

 

[rbiemer]

tominabox1,
So what grade did WE all get?😀
No, really, what did you do and how did it turn out? Can we see it?
Rob

 

[tominabox1]

Sorry for leaving you guys hanging!

I decided to do 2 prints one on Drama and one on Night. I will post the 2 shots I turned in in the next message. Overall I dont know what I got on this particular project but my grade for the course was a B+ which is better than I thought I'd do going into it. This is my first photo class and I had never had any instruction before. So I'm really hapopy 🙂

On to the photos:

 

[tominabox1]

This one is called Dear John . This is the shot for Drama.

[img=http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5821/dearjohnbytominabox1nj5.th.jpg]

 

[tominabox1]

This is called Indiana Theater and is for the Night shot.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/783/indianatheaterbytominabft8.jpg

 

[FrankS]

So why does a pop-up ad for a casino appear when I click on your link?

 

[pesphoto]

ack...image shack ALWAYS crashes my computer