Defy Ms. Seal Project Reflection

For this project, I was very excited to attempt to defy Ms. Seal. I decided to take both cat pictures and flower/nature pictures because she doesn't like either of them. I really found that I was successful in both instances when I took pictures that were really close up. That being said, I think Ms. Seal is correct in some cases especially with flowers but some cat pictures are just too awesome.

Defy Ms. Seal

Future Tense Reflection

What are your intentions behind the series of photographs in the book? What kind of experience are you looking to evoke from the "reader"?

My intentions behind the photographs were to have a common element of nature throughout all of them. I wanted to have the whole book to have a somewhat old feel to it so I used film to take the pictures. To achieve this feeling of antiquity, I made the cover out of leather and used black and while images. 

What are formal commonalities that the images share (be specific. Explain how the composition or light or texture is repeated or evoked in multiple images)?

All the images were of different aspects of nature. I wanted to have a variety in the natural world so I took a lot of different types of nature pictures. That being said, most of the photographs shared a sort of darkness. 

What advice do you have for someone who plans to embark on this project?

I would tell them to really develop their intentions for the book before taking pictures. I started off with the leather book cover and developed the project around that so I had a solid idea of what would go well together. 

Future Tense Photographs