Photo Biltz(krieg Bop)

Doing the photo blitz project was really fun. I have always liked photography, and very rarely am given the opportunity to take pictures. I did my project at the laundry mat after work tonight. I was originally going to do it at home, but I figured it’d be interesting to do while I waited. The area is also a very small area, so I found myself trying to get really created.  I was very interested in using the glass washer and dryer doors to reflect images and look behind myself. I found it even more fun to use dryers that were running.

                The laundry mat is a tiny place, primarily made up of the machines and a tiny sitting area with a TV (Juno was on). There’s a little bin of kids toys, which I didn’t notice until the end of my project. There was only one other person in the laundry mat besides me, my partner, and the attendant (whom kept giving me weird looks).

                Looking at my pictures, the ones that worked the best were the ones I shot at different angles and through reflections. Three out of the five pictures I have uploaded are reflections; one is of a different angle. I tried using the reflection to show openness.  For most of my pictures, I started out just taking random shots. I didn’t even have my criteria sheet with me, so that left me a little freedom. I did remember a few, like the converging lines prompt and the abstract one. Although I took a lot of converging lines pictures I didn’t consider one to be my best work. I think it really shows something about taking the pictures without really having the photo list in front of me.

                 I found it more enjoyable to have to go back and look through them all. I think this assignment is very freeing. I believe we all want to be creative, but aren’t because we all have so many things to do in our everyday college student stressed out lives. So assigning an artsy project is something that more professors really should keep in mind, including us teacher candidates.