Post Paul Strand Assignment

These are some of my Paul Strand style photos. I was not able to upload all of my photos at my house so the rest will be added on monday. I found that while I was going out to take pictures or looking for something that captured my fancy I would gravitate more toward nature and landscapes. Even though I did try for some shadow play and man made objects they just did not compete with some of the pictures that I am and going to display in this post. I hope when you are looking at the photographs below have the same vibbe as that of Paul Strand in that the picture is telling you a story like in a silent film. So in following that focus I asked myself these questions about each photograph. Is the picture exciting for the eye even with the apsence of color? Does the picture flow between the back, middle, and fore ground? Is my subject odvious or do you have to guess? Can you tell what the subject is? Of course for me that is what I do after the picture is already taken. What usually runs through my mind when I go out for a photo shoot is the first assignment that my class did. Which is called a Light Walk ( for more information on what a light walk is look to an earlier post called chasing the light). I also looked for things that I found appealing, or weird to the eye. Once I found something that looked good I would take atleast four or five of the same picture just from different angles so that when I made the photos black and white I could find that one money or magic shot. Which was not always easy because something that I struggled with in this assignment was finding the right lighting for different subjects. Also known as exposure is the biggest issue that I have to work on since alot of my pictures are to light or to dark.