How do I capture hope in a picture?

Question

and how do I capture depression in a picture?

any ideas?

Answer 1

Plenty. Hope comes from lots of places - someone praying, rescue workers, a pregnant woman, people waiting in line for PSP3 . . . Hope is all around you.
Unfortunately so is depression. People sleeping in boxes. Grown men crying in despair. People that have endured unimaginable loss.
Are you planning a photograph, a painting, a collage, etc? There are no limits to your creativity with these subjects.

Answer 2

Before I do anything, I like to study a little and find out how to do what is is that I am assigned to do. Best idea is to look at how the professionals capture these abstract concepts such as hope and depression. I would suggest you take a look at Dorothea Langes photos taken while in the FSA in the 1930's. She was particularly good at capturing such feelings has hope, and depression. One of her best images, and one of the most reproduced photos of all time was "migrant mother" http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3b40000/3b41000/3b41800/3b41800r.jpg

I should also add that most of your FSA photographers were good at capturing the spirit of grief and hope, it is just that Dorothea Lange was probably better than the others at doing such.

Answer 3

You can capture Hope in a picture by just taking a picture of someone with a very small smile...You know, a smile that is just barely beginning.
A picture of depression can look like a person who stares
at you and through you..Have someone look at your left or right cheek as you take their picture, or the bottom of your earlobe or top of your shoulder and just keep staring at it..with their mouths downwards,,,,,

Answer 4

A child looking at a fancy toy in a store window = hope
A woman in a slip, sitting on a simple ladder-back chair in a poorly lit, bare room with wooden floors reading a label on the bottle= depression.

Answer 5

whatever the setting and the model look like.. the mimic of the model is the thing that to be captured..

a face of hope has big bright eyes, eyebrows a bit raised, but doesn't have to be smiling

a face of deppresion has eye lid almost half closed the eyes, the model doesn't have to be frowning, but if he/she is looking in to other way than to the camera is good, looking a bit down is better

i think so

Answer 6

~I would suggest black and white asa 60 film, fstop at no more than 4.6 and a shutter speed between 80 and 125. Do hope with a wide angle and depression with a fish eye, but you've really got to find the right camera angle and light. By no means should you pose either. I love a good artist who has no idea as to how to create. I'll be looking forward to your publication.

Answer 7

a 3 quarter profile (like Rockwell's painting of the pledge of allegiance painting), with the subject looking "to the future" steadfast and courageous=hope

dim bare room, one lone person sitting at a card table in a folding chail with a whiskey bottle in hand=depression (possible an empty chair at an angle from the table to accentuate the aloneness and lonliness of the feeling)

Answer 8

the allegorical representation and traditional image is an anchor but it very much depends upon what you actually wish to convey. Depression can be conveyed through mood, hope would obviously be brighter.

Answer 9

Hope: A pregnant woman.
Depression: war torn countries and it's citizens

both done in b&w

Answer 10

Pitch black with one beam of light and a person looking up into the light. that's hope for ya.