May Assignment Ideas

[Diane Margetts]

OK--Mandy has done an awsome job on our monthly photo assignments but she needs a temp reprieve during her busy photography season! So, I volunteered to come up with a May assignment. I will post one by tommorrow evening BUT I would like to hear some suggestions from you about areas you would like to concentrate on. Think about it and post ideas please!!!

D

[Linda and "Toby"]

One topic that might be interesting to cover is "cropping." It can make an ordinary photo quite extraordinary.

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

I thought we already did cropping or it came up during one of our assignments and so we did it. We posted quite a few before and afters to show the difference and the suggestion was made on some of the photos posted to try cropping them. I don't think it started out as a monthly assignment but I know we ended up adding it.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

My favorite assignments are those that deal with composition. It helps us be more discerning in taking or cropping and it can be done by any camera. But I just saw Linda's suggestion and think that is a great idea.

[F, Calla & Luca]

i have no idea how we'd do it but I loved Adina's silhouette photo.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Me too! This would be really fun. Would it be possible to do both...cropping and the silhouettes?

[F, Calla & Luca]

Why not? Since I don't know how to attempt a silhouette, I may have to crop the entire picture!

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Is this what you mean by silhouettes? I took this picture with the sun, not behind me, but in front.

Or do you mean Side View in just black?

This is Dora. She monitors how much time I spend on the computer. She also monitors those squirrels in the garden.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Dora looks like a beautiful silhouette to me. tell Dora she needs to allow you more computer time. Cats were high on the allergy list but I didn't need a test to tell me that. Achoo!

[Linda and "Toby"]

Nice silhouette of Dora, Joanne! :)

[Adina P]

I like assignments that go like this: "Take a photo of ____" where ___ is a difficult thing to take a photo of such as "black dog" or "doodles in action" (which we've done already) or "close-up capturing the quality of your doodle's coat"

Or self portraits or a purposely set up 'studio shot' where you try to set up a 'stage' of sorts in your home with backdrop and props and doodle =)

None of my ideas involve photog terms as I don't know them and perhaps the pros here can reword them to be more appropriate =)