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Lacking motivation to go out and shoot? Want to take photos but don’t know of what? Looking for ways to get better at your craft? Here’s the thread for you!
THIS MONTH’S ASSIGNMENTS - MOTHERLAND EDITION
>1) A person representing your state or country.
Wrap your mom in a flag or something. Burgers: 4th of July is round the corner.
>2) A place with cultural or historical significance.
Square with statue of famous local dead dude, building where important bill was signed, ex-battlefield-now-turned-parking-lot, this kind of stuff.
>3) “Belonging”.
>4) Elements arranged into either a triangle or a circle.
Search “principles of grouping” and “gestalt psychology” on wikipedia.
HOW DOES IT WORK
>4 assignments changing every month (LISTED ABOVE) but categorized in 4 recurring themes
>You can try them in any order you like
>Recurring themes are 1) human subject 2) environment 3) abstract concept 4) compositional element
>1) Posed or candid portraits, or taking pictures with humans being a prominent element, like street photography
>2) Landscapes. If you live in a city urbanscapes are acceptable too, but try to get out of town
>3) Something vague and open to interpretation
>4) Having a certain shape, like triangle or circle, or a compositional element, like repetition, diagonal, thirds. The rest is up to you
>You can post more than 1 photo for each assignment but do try to cover every theme per month
>Try to take new photos instead of posting from your archive
>Have fun!
Deadline is on the 15th of every month, but of course you can post results as soon as you have them and get friendly feedback from lovely anons.
DO IT FAGGOTS!!!
