Have a great summer!
If we have a few outings, we will post them here, in an email, on the Library Calendar and on the Photo Club Facebook Page.
At our last activity meeting in April Steve and Cliff set up some fun play with glass balls and colored water. These are my favorites from the night.
The May assignment was/is "Do Over" Go back to the activities and assignments for the year and work on them again. Maybe you will want to combine the various things you worked on into one image. Maybe you just want to spend time on them because you were really busy and didn't get much time to play.
January: Fibonacci and Shapes
February: Peace and Love
March: Water, Water, Everywhere
April: Light and Shadows: Ansel Adams was a master at seeing light and shadow. Monet was fascinated with light and would paint the same seen over and over again throughout the day to see the way light and shadow and color changed. Shadows can be intriguing on their own making cool designs on the ground. Look at the way day and night light play with the world.
May: Do Over
June, July, August: Take your pick. What do you want to work on this summer? The following list was my design. You are welcome to use this list or make up your own list.
Landscape and graffiti: there is so much to see in the world wherever you are. Take time to stop and see the big picture. Capture the writing on the wall.
Forced Perspective: make something look big or make something big look small. Maybe it looks like a person is holding a cloud or Bokeh lights are filling a glass. Maybe a shell looks huge or Lego people are now giants. Maybe the full moon looks really big in the sky.
Time and Space: how do you see these things? The skies the limit. Maybe you time lapse photograph the sunset. Night shots of the sky, clocks? The growth of a new plant. As with time and space, the possibilities are endless.
Up Close and Personal: get your macro on. Look at the details.
Portraits and People: This one scares me half to death. I include animals in my idea of portraits. This is also an opportunity to get to know other people. Maybe start a stranger portrait series. Really stepping outside of my comfort zone.
Windows and Doorways: not sure I need to say much on this. It could be used as a compositional style. Frame within a frame. Or it can be literal or metaphoric.
Pencils, Paper, and Everyday Things: How can you make a unique photograph from everyday objects. The goal is to see it and experiment with it until you have a photograph of the object that is unlike any other.
Look How Far You Have Come (Take an old photograph that you like, retake it. How have you change? What did you do differently?)
We will see you back at the library on August 20th for a really great show-and-tell.
