Homework for 2-29-12: Final Pictures

These are my four final photos on the subjects: Spouse and Society/The Lost

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass

Homework for 2-22

2-22-12

Grant Snodgrass 

Rough Draft of Talk

          I really want this talk to be pretty casual and laid back, but still sort of deep. I think I have two subjects which can be very influential, so I think its important to capture that. I also really do not know what the format for the talk and pictures is going to be like, this is just my rough draft.

          “Hey, my name is Grant Snodgrass! For the past two months or so, I had the privilege to capture, through photography, two really impacting topics on how God interacts in the world around me. Those two subjects are: spouse/significant other and society/the lost. I really enjoyed thinking about and photographing these two subjects.

          On the topic of spouse/significant other, I really wanted to show how relationships are a gift from God and how we can benefit from them. When God made humans, He did not make just a man or just a woman; He made both. I believe this is because men and women are meant to have a relationship with one another and not be alone. I am fortunate to have a really great mother and father who demonstrate this connection for me. 

          The second subject, society/the lost, I particularly enjoyed. I really feel like this is one of the biggest places God interacts with us. If you look around you, where you live and the people who are there, that is your society. Here in Portland, there is, for sure, an interesting society of people. There is a pretty big mixture and in it there is definitely a good amount of those who are lost. It says in Mark 2:12,“On hearing this, Jesus said to them, ‘It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick." I think this is a really cool point which relates to the topic “the lost”. Everywhere around us there are those who are lost, including ourselves in some ways. I think we just have to be open to let God work through us with those who are lost and less fortunate than we are."

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass

Homework for 2-15

Shot list for photos:

Subject: Couples

• LS, Maywood Park Bike Path - Lauren and Lance facing away form the camera, walking away and holing hands or having their arm's around each other. I want this image to show binging in a relationship is a sort of walk on a path and a journey. I would like it to be late afternoon so the sunlight shows through the trees onto the path and to have a really warm feeling to the picture
• MS, Street - Ideally, I would like this one to be Lauren and Lance standing in the street hugging or something of the sorts. Hopefully under the street light so most of the image is pretty dark, except the two subject who are lit from above. I want this one to portray a more sad emotion, not completely depressing, but like they are separating for a long time and are saying good bye. 
• MS, Inside on a couch - I want this picture to display the fun that can be had when in a relationship with someone. The past two images were more serious, while I would like this one to have a more fun feeling about it. I would not know, but from what I see, people who are married and have a significant other really do tend to have a good time with that person. This is what I want to show here. 
• CU, Outside in the grass - My idea for this one is for the two subjects to be lying in their stomachs outside in a yard. I want the frame pretty tight, with focus on the two’s faces, while the background of the image is out of focus so the attention is completely on the detail of the faces. 
• MS, Inside a kitchen or living room - I would like for the photo just so be of, ideally, my mother and father. I want for the two subjects just to be standing in the room with their arm’s around one another, just to demonstrate companionship and company in a relationship. 

Subject: Society/The Lost 

• MS, Sidewalk downtown - This would be very hard to do, but my idea is to have the focus be on someone standing in on the sidewalk and have the rest be blurry, possibly with people going by. This is a pretty rough and far out idea, but something of the sort I would be happy with. Because the subject, “Society/The Lost” is pretty broad and I think it is hard to plan when taking photos out in the real world because you never know what you’ll find. 
• LS, Along building wall - I would like to capture the action in society. An idea I have is taking a shot along the wall of a building and showing the movement of everybody. I also want to sort of use a wall or something to frame the picture on the side, for I think if a photo has too much going on without a framing it can be confusing to look at.
• CU, Bricks in Pioneer Square - I know for a fact, on each one of the bricks in Pioneer Square there is a name printed. I would really like to do a shot where the camera is level to the ground and the image is of a lot of the bricks and names, with one singular name in focus. I think this would show a sense of community in the society, with all the names of people put together in one photo.
• MS, Homeless man - I think a big part of “The Lost” are those in need and such. In Portland there is, for sure, no shortage of those in need. I would like to do a picture of a man or woman who holds a sign on a street corner. I think there would be a lot of emotion in an image like this. For the technical side, I think it would be really cool to have the main subject maybe, actually not in focus. This, I think could portray how people like this can tend to be brushed aside, without being noticed. 
• ELS, Portland - I would really like to do an extreme long shot of all of downtown, or at least most of it. This would be from the East side of the river, similar to what we did for night photography in our class photo shoot. “Society” is really nothing individual, but a group as a whole. This is why I think it is good to have a photo of the whole society in which I live. This will definitely be hard because of the camera I have and it’s lake of wide shots. 

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass

Homework for 2-8-12

Where I see God interacting in my world:

Spouse/Significant Other:

I believe that relationships are a gift from God. None of us would ever be the same without our relationships in our lives. Just think about spending your life on a deserted island, by your self. This is the type of idea I would like to capture in my photos, that we would not be the same without relationships and more specifically romantic relationships.  I am blessed to have two parents which get along very well and are extremely significant characters in my life. Because of this, my mother and father are definitely two subjects that I would like to include in my photos. The other major romantic relationship in my life is my sister Lauren and her boyfriend Lance. These are two very awesome people and I can really respect the relationship that they have. So, I would like to capture their relationship in my photos as well. I do want to capture that the subject is romantic relationships, so just holding hands and such, but obesely nothing to intimate. If we just look around there are so many ways God blesses us with marriage and significant others. 

Society/The Lost:   

This subject I am particularly excited about shooting. To me society is the biggest place where I see God interacting. As as for the lost, I definitely see God interacting here, like it says in the Bible “it is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick”. I do not think this means God doesn’t work thorough all of us, but particularly those who do not know him is who we should be interacting with. For this subject I would love to go to a more urban environment, such as down town Portland or really anywhere more urban. I would  really like to capture the culture and society where I end up shooting this, even if it is just in my neighborhood. Portland is definitely filled with lost people in the society, so I do not think I will have a problem finding places to shoot. The only dilemma is it can for sure be awkward to go up to someone you don’t know and ask to take their picture, this is the main obstacle I believe I will have to face for this subject. 

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass