Week 1:

Finish collaging your backgrounds from class if you didn't finish.

Home Assignment:

Create and photograph a still life. Think about:

• Your objects
  • How many to include
  • Switch your objects out
• Your perspective
  • Higher, lower, from behind, facing the left or right
• The position of the light
  • Higher, lower, from behind, facing the left or right
• Variety of objects' heights
• Staggering objects so they're not in line with one another
  • You can make objects in line with another as long as there's another interesting point, like unusual ligh
• Composition
  • Balance
    • Asymmetrical or symmetrical
  • Cropped or not
  • Zoomed in or zoomed out (how much background is showing)
• The shapes of negative spaces