Assignment #6 - Final Project

Your Final Project will consist of a portfolio of 12 (twelve) related images. They have to relate to each other in a consistent theme. They don't always have to tell a story, but could be related by angle, subject matter, tonality (high-key/low-key), color, light, texture, etc... The individual images should tell me a story, but if the final ten images don't tell a continuous story, they should relate to each other in an obvious way.

I want you to post all twelve of the images to your blog, do some writing about your portfolio and things that you feel you succeeded at, things you think you could have done better and write about the imagery itself. Tell me why you shot what you did, and how you went about it.

If you still don't have a final project idea you should be thinking very hard what you want to do it on. Feel free to e-mail me about some ideas you may be having.

If you are having a very VERY difficult time figuring out what to photograph for your final project, you can follow these guidelines:

1. What unique story do you have access to that no one else does?
2. What stories can you tell that bring us straight into the emotional portion of our brain?
3. Remember the C.L.U.E.S.? system. Use it and that will help you identify what it is you ought to be photographing.

When you have finally FINALLY decided what to do for your project, I want you to try to make photographs that help to answer the magic formula in journalism:

Who
What
Why
Where
When
How

If your photographs aren't answering the above questions, keep shooting. We should know the answers to all of those questions by the time we are done looking at your photo essay. Think of it in terms of a 'photo essay' and you will be on your way to having a strong project.

This project should be one that means something to you. Don't take photographs of things you don't care about, we will know that when we look at them. Also plan on spending several different sessions photographing your project. This should NOT be something that you shoot in one session. If you don't have the ability to go back and fill in the gaps with additional shooting, then you might want to think about something else that you can photograph and return to multiple times.

These photographs should be the mostest perfectest photos you have made this term and they should all be massaged GENTLY in Lightroom before you post them.

Also, think of the order that we will be looking at them. Does the story have a definite sequence that we need to see them in? Are there any photographs that can change places and have the story read easier and more clearly? Are there any photographs that can be removed and replaced with another image? Are you scraping the bottom of the bucket to be able to show us 12 images?

TRUST YOUR GUT! You know what a good photograph is, so take them! Share them! This final project always surprises me, and the bar is already set high for many of you.

Good luck, I can't wait to see what you guys come up with!

Due dates:

Shutter-Bugz: June 23
Untitled: July 16