PHOTO EXERCISE 01: COLOR

For my class, I assign students to make weekly photo journals; which is a journal of photos they take every week following a given topic or specific brief I give out at the end of each class session. For naming's sake, I'll call it PHOTO EXERCISE.

This first one is a photo exercise I usually assign on the first day of class.

THINK OF A COLOR, AND TAKE PICTURES OF ONLY THAT ONE COLOR, OR HAVING THAT COLOR AS THE FOCUS OR SUBJECT MATTER.

I usually assign students to take 100 pictures for the whole week, and then choose 10 to present in front of the class.

This photo exercise is good for warming up with the photo taking skills, and for getting back into shooting a lot of pictures. And also to coach our eyes to see and seek things around us, to be more aware and perceptive.
Discussions of this presentation will be about going back to the basics of composition, contrast, and the language of color.

MORE PHOTO EXERCISES COMING!!!