Welcome to remote learning! Your challenge this week is to use your phone to take images in your home. However, you are going to need to make these images as exciting and as striking and as dramatic as possible.
But how can you shoot an exciting composition in and around your house?
1) Follow this link research and read about photography 'rules'
This will give you tips and hints as to how encode drama and excitement in your images even using limited resources!
2) Use your phones to create 15 abstract, meaningful and dramatic shots
An abstract image does not have an immediately identifiable subject or content. It can be mysterious, artistic, confusing, emotional...
Click here to see some examples of abstract, inventive photography
And click here for some tips, tricks and suggestions of how to create mysterious abstract images
3) Extension (you don't need to do this, but if you want to, go for it!)
Choose from a list of APPS that can be downloaded on your smart phones and use the editing effects to highlight your photograph choice
APPS TO TRY: VSCO, FOODIE, SNAPSEED, AFTERLIGHT
Next Lesson: You will be adding to your 15 abstract and mysterious images, and will use them to form a coherent narrative...
Here's a few more examples of abstract shots, which I took in the streets and parks around my house. Remember to shoot loads, be impulsive, and be experimental!
