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