Shape Photography
Harnessing geometric shapes in artwork has existed in all art forms for centuries. Ansel Adams; his work harnesses this idea in compelling and wondrous ways:
On the left, Adams’ “Mount Williamson”, and on the right, “Dunes, Oceano, California.” Although these photographs do not necessarily isolate any one specific geometric shape, we can reflect upon the impact the shapes have on our connection to the image.
Project Assignment
You will be required to produce a set of pictures that have geometric shapes within your photographs.
- You may use any digital camera you wish, including smartphones.
- Submit exactly one JPEG photograph for every shape on your Google Slide workbook. Each shape should be easily identified through whichever isolation technique(s) you chose. Again, the goal is to find these shapes embedded in your environment; do not simply photograph an object with that shape, like a hula hoop to represent a circle or a square sign to represent a square.
- You may make modest modifications to the image if you would like (e.g., cropping or small changes to contrast or color)
- Name each photograph the same as the name of the shape, like circle, rectangle, etc.
Each shape must contain the correct number of sides but may be irregular (e.g., the triangle may be equilateral, right, isosceles, obtuse, etc.; the rectangle may be rectangular or square). Be careful with extremely irregular shapes (such as a rhombus, trapezoid, scalene triangles, etc.) as you want your shape to be exceedingly clear. You may have any number of waves and any number of points in a star.
You will create 5 photos from the 6 possible shapes below
