The prompt

The photo:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/194821334@N06/shares/n989r8 (It refuses to embed, I don’t know why, but let me know if you can’t see it.)

The prompt was to take a photo of something that makes it seem larger than it is. I was drawn to the chairs in the parlor downstairs in my dorm because to me, they’ve always looked like Steve’s chair from Blue’s Clues, just small. Not as big as his looked in the TV show. I shot the photo from the floor, angling it upward. I tried to keep the carpet out of frame so that it couldn’t be used as a reference for how big the chair was and make it seem bigger. As a happy accident, (hey, Bob Ross!) my finger under the phone put it at a Dutch angle, which is traditionally used in cinematography to show that something (i.e. a situation, character, etc.) is weird or wrong. So the accidental Dutch angle in my photo adds to the fact that something is weird, the chair is huge! The lens flare, another happy accident, makes it seem majestic and grand, adding to the largeness, I think. In real life it’s a normal sized chair, maybe on the small side.

I am wearing one of a classic 80’s band with. Taking oversized tee to a new level.

Look at this mug! It’s bigger than those pumpkins! It’s HUGE! IT’S LARGER THAN LIFE ITSELF!

This is one of my favorite mugs that I own! It’s pop culture merchandise from the hit Netflix show, Stranger Things! Specifically, it references the name of the camp Dustin Henderson (one of the main characters in the show), attended for a month. One of the things that I absolutely loved about season 3 of Stranger Things was how many 1980’s pop culture references there was! There were hundreds of 80s easter eggs! The show was set in the year of 1985 (hence the mug), therefore, there will be loads of 80s surprises all throughout the season!

This assignment, Larger Than Life, was to find an everyday object and try to photograph it from a point of view that makes it look bigger than it actually is. We walk through many doors everyday, so why not choose that?