The Project

The time has come for you to go out and deliberately take photographs for the purpose of Digital Photography.

The nature of taking photographs will change for you. No longer will images be composed by what fits within the lens, but by what fits between your eyes. It will be your prerogative to select and discard parts of images and to recompose on the computer.

Digital Photography is freeing the artist from the constraints of "Truth Telling" by making skeptics of your audience. Traditional Photography has always been a type of "fiction" but was seen as the Fact Maker for journalists and the news media worldwide.

• If we are to truely believe photographs, then we must all believe that our great grandparents were living in a world of Sepiatones!

Important Ideas

1. Look for these things when going out with your camera:
   1. Objects, angles and scaling.
   2. Shadows, textures, shapes and colors.
   3. Take clear, bright pictures, or VERY CLEAR DARK ones using:
      1. Contrast main object to the rest of the scene.
      2. Relationship to the Background
      3. Sharpness

2. Ask:
   1. How will each element fit within your ultimate image?
   2. How much space should it occupy?
   3. What is the perspective and point of view?
   4. Should the element look or move in a particular direction?
   5. Should I change my point of view to compensate for:
      • shadows, lighting, scale and perspective?
      • something in the way of the main subject?
3. If I took the same picture when the sun was out and then when it was cloudy, could I use the natural "shadows" in the second image to "fake" shadows in the first? (then the GIANT DOG that you will put in the street will be able to cast a realistic shadow across the ground, trees, and buildings).