Project 3: Breaking out of the Box (Taking the Studio on Location)
For this, our final project, we'll apply many of the technical and conceptual strategies developed in the more controlled confines of the studio, coupled with your increasingly effective collaborative skills, to create a series of images out "in the world". You will still be, theoretically, working in the studio. Meaning: you will not walk out and take photographs, but will be engaged in making them. Consider the distinction in the terms. Each of you will propose a manageable project (given the amount of time we have remaining) that requires a specific location or context that would be difficult or impossible to reproduce in the studio. I will review your proposals and assign working partners. Working in groups of three or more, you will select the locations and design the lighting scenarios for each shot. You will then present the work together as a unified project.
Look carefully at the artists' work I'll show you in class and do please embark on your own additional research if you see something that is relevant to your ideas for the project. I will look to you to help me develop the finite list of technical concerns we'll cover in class. There is simply too much material to squeeze into a single semester to adequately cover all the variables inherent to location shooting, so we will try to solve only those problems presented by the execution of your ideas.
We will critique your finished prints (minimum 8) on Thursday, Dec. 6. Please also bring any other work you wish me to critique and grade, including any re-done projects or outside work.