Summary of Project

Overall, I believe for this to be one of my better projects of think and make so far. I enjoyed the process of building our photo collages and the creativity we were allowed to express. Throughout the process of creating this photo collage I realized how incredibly hard it is to make your original vision come into place. This project was harder than I expected it to be in terms of taking enough pictures, when putting together my final collage and realized I had some gaps to fill and had to go back to location and take more photographs. I am confident in my final collage and believe it is a beautiful piece of artwork.

Errol Morris

Photographs are neither true nor false. All photographs are posed. There is always and absence in a photograph of something that has or should be there. You never see what before, after, or around the photograph. The understand a photograph you must see all the details. The photographs with the most power are iconic.

Psychological Aspects

Cameras have changed the world. Cameras make it possible to see something through a different perspective that you originally wouldn’t of been able to see. The way a place or thing can be duplicated makes the world a way better communicated and smaller place. Every picture has its own story and message.

Master of Illusion

This video touched basis on many things I can already relate to after taking a semester of courses at KU. After taking a drawing course last semester I have come to find out that I enjoy doing linear perspective drawings. To me linear perspective drawings feel complete and satisfying to look at. Linear perspective is important with this photography project because of the position of where you stand to take your pictures. Light and shadow was also mentioned in the video that ties into this project and what time of day you decide to take your photographs. Many of the artwork shown in the video I learned about in the History of Art course that I took last semester. Having seen this work and having prior background knowledge gave me a better understanding of the video.

On Photography

Images teach us their own visual code. Each and Every image and the information you take from it is unlike any other. Plato’s cave to me sounds like an interesting place that I would love to see. The effect that the cave has on the visual information taken from the photographs is so unique. I’ve learned more about how the presentation and environment play a role on how you interpret a photograph. This information is good to know because it relates to my major of environmental design.

The Photographer's Eye

Cameras opened a whole new creative medium for human beings. Photography is a way to descirbe things and shows the photographer’s perspective of a place or thing. The everlasting product that a camera gives is one that will never go away. In this article it lists 5 issues of photography which are, the thing itself, the detail, the frame, time, and vantage point. I think these 5 issues do a great job of describing just what exactly a photograph is all about. 

Photography Project Description

Show time and space through photography of a person or place and create a collage. Arrange the photographs to make a collage. Determine the placement of your photographs to make the most visually pleasing and to fulfill proper requirements. Work with perspective to capture your photographs. Understand photography’s ability to capture 3-D things and turn them into 2-D.