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I asked this question a couple days ago but would like some more ideas.

I'm just about to start my final major project. it's photography based. I just need some ideas on what to base my project on. there is no brief and the examiner wants wow factor.
I have decided to use black and white film, please help.

2007-03-18 10:40:27 · 9 answers · asked by cidermoo 4 in Arts & Humanities Visual Arts Photography

9 answers

Try contrasts. Like old/young. An old man being lead down the street by a puppy on a leash.

2007-03-19 08:43:54 · answer #1 · answered by sweet & sour 6 · 0 0

With b&w,especially film, contrast is the answer. I rather like the idea of age as the contrast. There are several possibilities.
1. Get a really old lady holding a portrait of a beautiful young woman in a period hat and and victorian top.(go for head and shoulders only, really big, nice frame) Photograph her and the portrait in b&w, Then print really large and mask everything except the portrait which you can them sepia tone. The result would be a beautiful sepia portrait being held by the old lady,as if it was herself years before.
2.Alternatively get an old man with really lined old hands hold a very young baby and do the opposite, sepia tone the hands and leave the baby in b&w.
3. Find a really old gnarled tree root and have some fresh spring flowers growing up between the roots.
Do you see the concept of contrast in these images?
Possible alternatives:
Light and dark: Helmut Newton did nudes on a beach, not full bodies, but close ups with white body and black body.
Light and shade:
Rough and smooth: Bill Brandt used nudes on a pebbled rocky beach using a wide angle lens, smooth body parts, legs thighs and buttocks distorted by wide angle perspective against the rough rocks. David Swanell did some similar work. (Not sure if you can use nudes in your work, but this need not involve full nudes)
Silk and barb wire is another contrast.
If you want to stay with the rough and smooth then find a rocky waterfall and use a long exposure on the water so that it appears like a mist flowing over it. Idid a long exposure like this with a model just coming through the water. You can fill a project work book with experiments like this.
Remember that long exposures can be produced in a number of different ways:
1. Very small fstop (aperture) and long time exposure
2. Use of neutral density filters.
3. Also cable release and b shutter setting, timed. (b is bulb setting)
4 Use a separate light meter such as a Gossen Lunasix or similar that will give reading in minutes of exposure.
5. Don't forget to bracket exposures, so you dont lose a shot.
Hope this gives you some ideas!
I would forget the Lomo camera, not enough control, to hit and miss, this is a major project that requires skill and thought rather than trusting to luck.
Maybe call your project CONTRAST and letter it with letters cut from contrast prints.
Hope this is what you are looking for, good luck with the project!

2007-03-19 14:00:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Shoot on 5x4 using a type 55 Polaroid to get some beautifully framed images you can use it to shoot still life's portraits or anything. print the images on fibre based paper, kentmere do a nice range. The technical aspects as well as the image contents will wow the examiners. You can tone the final images as well if it suits the images. Consider the way that you are going to print the images before you shoot them because it will affect the way you shoot the images. Best of Luck!

2007-03-18 11:34:15 · answer #3 · answered by Hey Jude 2 · 0 0

well i suggest that u base your project on the history of art and if that isnt good enuf for u just take som interesting pics that really describe a sort of focus u are going for .

Here to help,
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2007-03-18 10:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Roaming Rocket! 1 · 0 1

i would go for "real beauty". with this black and white film you can really do a project like that. it could be photographing children in hospitals. or maybe older people. or all sorts of people that are "unconventionally" beautiful. your photos will bring out their true beauty and you would be doing a really wonderful thing.

2007-03-18 11:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by mimma 3 · 0 0

With black and white you could go for the deception thing like the fairies in the garden that tricked people into thinking they existed. How about "I've got it here in black and white so it must be true".

2007-03-18 10:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1 0

when it is nearly dark have camera on tripod in front of a nice shaped tree, keep shutter open for a minute, while you run around in front of the tree with a torch creating low and high wavy, light trails, then fire the flash to illuminate the grass,

looks terrific.

2007-03-18 11:13:55 · answer #7 · answered by Hammer&Drill 3 · 0 0

common things that u stumble on the street.things that tell a story about u or anyone or the world around u.

2007-03-18 10:46:21 · answer #8 · answered by TJ 3 · 0 0

i would use more effects such as sepia and would also make them better by digitally edditting them!!

2007-03-18 10:46:19 · answer #9 · answered by ebrahim m 2 · 0 0

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