It’s eight men in the box, hard nosed photo blitzing! The key to photography while under pressure is keeping a cool head. Realizing that you have the time and the means if you are in the right position to be effective. Right position? Well, I positioned myself at my best bud’s house because he has chicken farm, goats, a donkey, and other wild things that gave me more options to think over. Will the clock operator please put 20 minutes on the clock!?

And with the clock running, I quickly looked to my first read, making an object look almost supernatural. So I found a cup and propped it so that it would balance on a counter to make it look like it was holding its own weight up, or looking over an edge. If anything, the angle I took the picture at made the cup look really surreal. It looks large than scale, and I took notice of having just enough glare to add more depth to the picture.

With the clock still running, I quickly snapped to my next picture. On the table was a screwdriver and leftover chicken nuggets that Victor’s little brother had not finished. They were two objects that don’t belong together. I positioned the Screwdriver so that I could get an angle looking down the shaft to give my picture depth, focused on keeping light out of the picture and snapped it.

The clock is still running and I hurried outside to find more things to take pictures of, when I noticed the sky. The sun was shining through the downcast sky, which to me resembled openness through the clouds. Not only was the sky particularly gorgeous that day, but it was just right for what I wanted it to represent, especially over what looks like a barrier of woodland.

I was off to back yard to find more things to take pictures of, when I saw Obama. I quickly decided to take a strange angle picture of the donkey, and tried not to get kicked since he wasn’t particularly happy about my camera’s flash.

With time still on the clock, I ran back inside to check to see what options I had left to fulfill, when I noticed on about taking a picture of a strange shadow. On a downcast day, it is hard to find any shadows, but I noticed the shadow the bedroom door made on the floor, and how it reacted with the glare of the hard wood. I got down on my chest to take the picture, and made sure I had the flash off and got an excellent picture.

I snapped this picture and checked the time. It was good!

Over all, this assignment was fun; like a scavenger hunt. Being around a wide variety of objects was definitely helpful, so I was happy with the place I chose to do this. The only hard part was getting the right picture in a time restraint, but I believe I was successful.