this past weekend I took a short photography class (thanks to Chris). it was just a brief 3-hour session, but it was pretty fun! We spent the entire class period walking around Georgetown trying to apply the
rule of thirds. After the class was over, Chris and I hopped a train to New York to spend the rest of the weekend seeing friends and eating ourselves sick.
It was fun to try and apply the little bit I learned in this photo class to the photos I took in New York -- usually, I'm just snapping away, not really paying attention, but this time I tried to be a little more intentional with my framing. Obviously, I'm far from pro-status, but here are some of my best photos from the class and the weekend.
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our photography class met a random artist in georgetown |
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he was a little eccentric, but he let us into his studio |
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he had a lot of random knick knacks |
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the artist at work |
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i realize this is a recycling bin, but the shot is not bad, right? |
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madame geneva's in new york, LES |
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chris and his two good friends elliot and dan |
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some serious besties: joanna, niloo, me |
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fifth ave. at dusk |
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nonchalant cyclists |
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the gang |
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me! taken by Chris |
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heading back to DC |
I've never really considered myself an artistic person, but it's fun to learn a new form of narrative expression. I'm learning that a photo is really about getting a story across in one image. Just like a written story, each photo has a protagonist -- the subject of the photo. And your job as a photographer is to frame that protagonist in some way that gets a story across. It can be a sad story, a joyous story, a complicated story. But that's your job -- to get the viewer to have a sense of the story in one glance.
With that in mind, I'm starting to think I could really get into this form of artistry.
nice! i like the one with the paper in the window and the leaves on the ground!
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