2. Small Assignment Two: A Picture Worth A Thousand Words
You will have spent the past week shooting photographs - from within 15 feet of your subjects and from their fronts - that tell stories. You will submit the one best photo from the week. You should not have to explain the photo to us. If we can't look at the image and get it, the photo fails its purpose. Remember, the only things a still photograph brings to a viewer are those things that are visible - what you heard, felt, thought, smelled, or cared about when you took the photo are meaningless if they are not conveyed by the light captured in a fraction of a second when your shutter is open.
You will submit a short paragraph or caption about the meaning or story of the photograph. You will keep the meaning a secret until the critique is over. Then you will read the caption to the class. The goal is that your intentions are understood. YOU WILL NOT FAIL THIS ASSIGNMENT IF IT DOESN’T SUCCEED. So please don’t cheat by telling a friend in the class the real meaning. You will learn nothing by doing so. We can properly show how to get your intentions and your actual work to line up if you take this chance. We are all in the same boat! Failure only happens when you do sloppy work or no work at all.
BRING TO CLASS 1 PRINT! 11x14 or larger print. This does not have to go on your blog.
