Time Machine on...sending photos back from June...hating that I'm this far behind.
As I've mentioned before I'm taking post-baccalaureate classes at GPC to boost my undergrad GPA in hopes of actually getting accepted by the Masters program I want. Last semester I took Education, Art, and Film courses, all things I was familiar with and knew I could ace (which I did). So the brief summer semester, I took the same strategy by taking Music and Photography. Music class is a joke, which I may get in to with a later post, but the photography class is small, intimate, and full of some rad folks. For our first day with cameras, he gave a seemingly simple task: find two subjects and take photos. There were restrictions however: we only had 10 minutes; the subject had to be in the small courtyard just outside our building; must be presented as is (no cropping, color correction, anything); worst of all, the camera must be in the "auto" setting. The idea was to keep it simple and basic, allowing us to exercise our eye and understand framing. Like I said, very basic.
Anyhow, I took about 50-60 photos of a half dozen objects. Tomorrow I take three prints to show the class and we'll discuss. Interesting realization, all but one of them fall in with a them of "being discarded." Seems appropriate for GPC. Here is what I came up with within all those restrictions:
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