I guess the most challenging part of this assignment was the "Form" section, and the fact that all the photos had to be taken in school!
"Lines"
Here's a picture of the stairway behind the Arts Canteen. At the time that I was there, the evening sun created a pretty cool shadow effect on the stairway, creating this image of lines. I thought it'd make a cool photo so I snapped a shot of it.
My critique mates suggested that I crop out a large portion of it to focus on the lines, though.
"Lines 2"
This was taken at around the same time as the previous photograph. This is the corridor outside my room in Eusoff Hall. Like the previous photo, the railings cause a interesting shadow effect on the bright red floor when the evening sun shines on them.
"Shape"
My hall also has an interesting architecture with 3D geometric shapes bordering the windows and rooms. My group mates suggested that I take a front on shot instead, though, if I wish to use this picture as a "Shape" picture.
This staircase at LT 27 in Science looked pretty cool. I've always loved spiral staircases! But somehow, the composition didn't really work out so well.
I tried taking the photo horizontally but it didn't really work either. Oh well. It was worth a try.
I think making spiral staircases look the way they look in professional photographs like the one here needs real skill!:
Singing Staircases by ~drifterManifesto on deviantART
"Of Pinatas, Cacti, and Sombreros"
i love my hall RAG float! (btw it won us every RAG award hehehe) so i decided that it was going to be one of my subjects for A1! i took a series of shots of the float. but the composition of this one wasn't as dynamic or interesting as i hoped...
...and neither was this one.
And this one was just a bit too cluttered and messy for my liking. Haha...
"Colour"
this was the shot i was happiest with :) again, my group suggested cropping away everything but a small part of the picture to display "Colour".
What i understood about form wasn't very clear till Jing educated us during our second seminar. Still, I felt I chose an appropriate subject--a soft-served sundae! As my friends were eating it up, I tried to take as many pictures as I could to reflect this 3D form, this unique swirly shape.
But I wasn't fast enough...
And the shot I was most pleased with had the sundae in a rather miserable state. :/
I like how this turned out. :) Just playing around with aperture and focus.
When looking around for pictures to take to demonstrate "texture", I thought of a brick wall. (which, unfortunately, someone else in the class thought of too...)
I thought of taking part of the brick wall against the blue sky, the typical red brick blue sky look! Unfortunately, this shot didn't turn out as sweet as I thought it would.
(the photo below was something like what I had in mind)
Red Brick by ~1andy1 on deviantART
Yes I know this was too ambitious! :p Oh well...
I then thought of including part of the scenery in the photo, alongside the sky and the brick wall.
But this proved to be a little bit too distracting. :/
This wall picture had a similar composition and concept to the previous one, except that I deliberately straightened the wall and aligned it perfectly to the sides of the photo.
I was actually very happy with how this picture turned out! But Jing suggested that in order to highlight texture more obviously, I could consider zooming in on one brick instead.
But there's this something about whole brick walls that always fascinates me. :) hehee.
Brick wall by ~MadGuru on deviantART
Up to this point, Jing hasn't taught us to take pictures at night! So this was a bit of a challenge for me. I still wanted to try it out and experiment a little! It was fun :)
The stage lights looked really good across the night sky! I think my photo didn't do those beautiful lights justice, though.
"Security"
I saw this interesting exhibit in Esplanade as it was being set up! Loved the concept, I just HAD to take a photo.
SECURITY SURVEILLANCE SAYS, "HALT."
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All in all, still lots to learn and improve on! Haha.
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