Most likely your backyard has a story to tell. Or perhaps a park nearby will share its secrets. With this assignment take your camera on a photo safari to capture interesting images of a place you frequent. Cull your photos down to the best 5-10 images that when combined will tell a story. Create a slide show and embed it into your blog. Include a written or audio story telling component as well to help flesh out the story for your viewers.
See example at: Bygone Backyard Photo Safari
Using Photoshop or another image editing program create an image inwhich you combine two animals that traditionally hate each other to form a new hybrid animal. Consider adding text.
So we cannot go back in time…. but can you recreate a pose of someone’s old photograph with them doing the same pose in the present? Make a photograph of someone holding their own old photo, with them trying to replicate the expression.
Try to recapture the then and now story of that moment in time.
Combine a cat pic with an appropriate Shakespearean quotation. Based on the work of Laura Gibbs.
Visualize what would be your greatest fear outside your window at night.
I like to say this phrase a lot “You’re doing it wrong.” Just as dry and monotone as I can manage. If it’s timed perfectly, I can’t amuse myself better any other way. Your assignment is to find the best possible photo you can of someone or something “doing it wrong.” Sometimes people drive the wrong way on a one-way street or there are signs or stairs that point or lead nowhere. Find something wrong and riff on it. Two stars, cause it’s a photo that might take some hunting but no editing is required.
8-bit art is all the rage right now, and what is so compelling about it is that it’s all around us. Find or create 8-bit art in your real-world environment and photograph it so that you can share it here and actually get credit! Free yourself of the prison that is your computer, find 8-bit art in nature and release your inner-hippie.
We tend to surround ourselves with things that make us happy. Take a photo in your house or workplace and then find a creative way to make your favorite things about that space stand out. No limit to how many things you highlight, but make it interesting and intriguing.
Have you ever heard and song and a particular lyric stood out to you right away? I think all of us have had the feeling at least once. For this assignemt use one of those lyrics that stood out to you and make it into a visual. Use some kind of background that represents the lyric and place the lyrics over it in some way. Be creative! But make sure that your visual product evokes the same kind feeling that the lyric of the song does.
Take ten steps in any direction and with each step take one photo. Think about angles and lighting to create interesting photographs. Don’t forget the Rule of Thirds! Create a collage in a photo editor.
