My idea on this project was to take photos of some of my best friends, but take the majority of the pictures when they weren't looking. This worked for some photos but most of the time they realized that i was taking a photo, so they posed.
My original idea was to surprise people with a photo, but that did not work very well. I did not really organize these photos to create a message because i feel that photographs are whatever someone takes them as. To me, i can represent a photo as one thing and someone else could see it as completely different. That being said, i would much rather leave them alone and let people view it for what it is worth to them.
I created these images by using the Auto mode on my camera. I did not want to use manual mode because i felt that if i had to take the time to get a proper exposure, then they would catch on a lot faster and my project would not have come out as good.
The fifth photo is interesting because it's just the subject and the background. It makes me wonder what he's thinking about.
ReplyDeleteI think you would enjoy the work of Ryan McGinley. He often photographs his circle of young friends in a spontaneous, energetic manner and has a “snap shot aesthetic”, which reminds me of your approach to photographing these individuals.
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