Photo2Q1.3: One Hour Photos in a Bag

This activity was very interesting and fun to do because of the difficulty that was added to it. The objects were very interesting and difficult to incorporate, however I feel that in order to grow as a photographer, sometimes you need to be given limitations and constraints. Mainly, my idea with the objects I was given was to mix them together and literally integrate them into nature somehow I intersected items together and put them with nature and tried to see how they interacted with each other.

Lens^2 

Global Warming

Greenhouse Effect

The Ball(oon) Family

Photographing with impromptu items was great and insightful for incorporating prompts into any of my projects. I think that using incorporating gestalt organizers (graphic design concepts) into my photography will really be able to change the way I see framing in photography, and I felt that this project was great for that. I would have liked there to be more textured choices in objects (as almost all of the objects I used were quite "dull"), but that would somewhat remove the limitation aspect of the assignment and cause one to be less creative, but that's just me. I enjoyed the freedom in theme/topic as it allowed me to be more expansive, but for other assignments this probably wouldn't be ideal as most of my photos end up dealing with people, and most of the time people need a theme. I'd definitely like to do something open-ended like this in the future.