Anne Shifley

Thursday, February 4, 2010

1 Photo / Day

Or maybe, one subject per day. Maybe a bit cliché, but the weather is unpleasant so please meet my cat, Tito.

1.

2. Trudging across campus on a wet, snowy day.

3. In the laundry room

4. Morning Buzz

5. Rosemary Lane

6. Columbia bus getting towed away on Tuesday 2/9... Wish this hadn't been on manual focus!

Friday, January 29, 2010

This week our assignment was to shoot a sequence. The first sequence I tried to shoot was near the corner of my apartment building (corner of Hitt and Elm). I wanted to photograph the morning rush on the way to work and school. I fired off a frame every 10 seconds (using the self-timer) from 7:42am to 8am. Upon review, I was slightly disappointed that the dominant subject was cars. I decided to try again on campus the next day. I used the same technique and shot foot and bike traffic from Lowry mall facing Memorial Union from 7:50am to 8am. I like the idea of documenting the first round of students on their way to class.

I’m modestly pleased with this idea and think it could be really neat to stick with a few more times. I’d like to try some different high traffic areas (maybe 9am or 10am rather than before 8) and change the lens length and camera angle. Originally I thought a straight-on shot would be the most revealing, but after seeing the images I wish I had shot from much higher or much lower. I considered shooting from atop the parking garage for the first shoot but ultimately decided against it because I was concerned the images would suffer without a clamp to keep the camera in place. In terms of the assignment, I wish I had picked a more specific subject (i.e. sticking with one person on the way to class), but at the same time I like the volume of people you see out early in the morning. The images remind me of something you would see on a security camera and it doesn’t necessarily bother me – it provides a survey of the street corner.

On a side note, I’ve been having several problems uploading files to my web server… I need to investigate the problem more fully.