Okay, this exercise was a lot of fun.  The creativity from the assignments that we are doing is just mind-blowing in my opinion.  I haven’t run across another course where the assignments have been this refreshingly fun.

Let’s start off with my Flickr photos.  Rather than embed them and take up a ton of space, I’ll just link them.

Timestamp 1

Odd Angle

Someone’s Hand

Interesting Shadow

Do Not Belong Together

Dominating Color

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I did this assignment at work actually.  I work with a boy who has autism and I spend a good majority of my time there in their basement.  His brother is the one in the Interesting Shadow and Someone’s Hand photo so that was neat that I had his help.  He was more than willing to give me as many poses and pictures as possible so we probably spent a bit more time on it than we should have.  Doing this assignment was a lot of fun though.  The twenty minutes went by surprisingly fast and I actually found myself thinking a lot more about the photos that I took rather than taking the photos (if that makes sense).  I guess the object of the assignment was to spend more time thinking about the photos that were being taken rather than just taking random photos which made it a bit more interesting.

I think the photo that took me the longest to take was the Odd Angle photo.  I was debating between about ten different angles of photos before I wound up going with the picture of clock from above.  Most of the time, people look at clocks from either eye level or are looking up at them.  Rarely have I ever looked down at a clock.  I found that to be the most interesting photo that I took and I hope that you would agree with me.  The other photos that I took, I tried to make sure that I focused on color and making them look unique.  For example, the two that don’t belong together, I went with blue and yellow as the primary colors which contract quite nicely.  For the shadow photo, I made sure to have different lights on to have the effect of more than one shadow in the shadow.

On the Flickr Blitz page, I found the photos that had a unique aspect to be the most intriguing of the pictures that I looked at.  The normal pictures were fine, but pictures like this one and this one were the types of photos that I found to be the most interesting.  I like abstract photos; photos that make you think or give you that puzzled look at times.

All in all, I would say that I enjoyed Photoblitzing a lot.  I’m going to suggest this activity to a couple of my friends who are really into photography.  It’ll get them to think outside the box!