photography help!?

Question

im doing the theme of close up nature for my photography project- ive taken pictures of water droplets on plants and mushrooms etc but i need to put something creative in my book- i thought of one idea- to make a plant collage out of my selection of nature images but what else...plz help xxx

Answer 1

To be brutally honest- you would have an easier time thinking of something creative if you would have picked a more creative theme. Nature close-ups is very cliche and overdone. If you have to stick with the nature theme,
1)Write a story that compliments the photos, and make the book into a storybook.
2)Use only natural matierals to make the book. ie: the cover is covered in bark, pages are made of leaves or recycled paper, the spine is held together with hemp, etc
3)Turn in into something like a political issue like glogal warming. On one page is a beautiful flower, and on the opposing page an empty, dead desert. Repeat this pattern. At the end of the book explain that this will be the reality if we don't tkae care of the planet.
The important thing is to show that you picked this theme for a reason other than : it was easy or that flowers and leaves are pretty. You need to show a view that is unique to you, because everyone already knows flowers and leaves are pretty.

Answer 2

For my A-Level photography I chose the subject looking through nature. And based most of my photographs on looking through branches, leaves, in-between trees.

Teachers LOVE montages, I mean; the absolutely ADORE them! A montage to a teacher is like sex to a geek,(lol) anyway. Make a montagey type collage with photographs.

You could (depending if you're using coloured film or b&w film) take photographs of flow ers, plants, and trees and make a colour montage. Make one for Green, Red, and Brown. Then find photographs that consist mainly of that colour and turn them into a collage of colours! If that still isn't creative enough, then just go totally crazy and have a creative burst of imagination type thing and stick random photographs everywhere.

My final A-Level piece was a gigantic sphere made from wire with photographs stuck all the way round it, twas kinda a last minute thing but it got me a pass grade :)

MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THOUGH:
HAVE FUN!!!!!!!! and enjoy Photography!

Answer 3

The project is all about scale right? I did a similar project at uni where I took the photos and enlarged the to a1 size, I then mounted them an perspex and on the reverse ptinted tiny text explaining the image and its magnification. If you can then hang them in a position where youare forced to read the text at a distance and view the images from nomore than a few feet away t just strengthens the notion of scale and impact. just a thought and i received a first for it.
Good Luck!
Sorry didn't read the bit about it going in your book - can you adapt it in some way?

Answer 4

You've had some great ideas.
Try making a collage of a landscape,where each part of the landscape is made from your close up images. Have some grass, plants, water, waterfall etc.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

How about going out with a small mister bottle (like the ones used to spray water on plants) and see if you can lightly wet some spiderwebs? Take a black and a white board or cardboard out with you, as well. You can take the pics of the webs against nature and then against the neutral background of your boards.

Answer 7

Try the horizon with a wide angle lense. If you get it at the right time it's a garunteed A mark :)

But other ideas for nature could include birds, insects, wild flowers, or examples of different types of weather.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Try and think of, and see normal things in nature in a different way. You could try different angles, different views (get down on the ground and shoot, or find a way to safely climb up a tree), and shoot as many different aspects of it as you can. It may feel silly at first, but its a great way to expand your possibilities.

Answer 10

as well as using your nature images, perhaps press some flowers and stick them on also, or stick some flat-ish kind of flowers on it. collages look great, i've made loads. so much fun! stick leaves and stuff on it too...give it texture as well as colour.

Good luck x

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