Learning to see

Today we started learning how to see... we learned today that different types of photo shots require one to look at things differently.  We started to practice some of the different types of shots that we talked about yesterday.  With our time today we each got to take an archaeological artifact shot, a museum artifact shot, a full body portrait and a bust portrait.  For each kind of picture we had to set up the shot differently.  With the archaeological artifact shot, we learned that we as photographers had to be above the artifact for the shot, look for the lighting so there were few to no shadows, have a plain background (white, black or grey), and very importantly all artifact shots had to have a scale in them.  The primary purpose of these is for documentation, so... they were kind of boring looking.

Meghan Cleveland's Artifact Shot of a Maskette

Then we moved on to museum shots.  These were of artifacts, but the angles were different and shadow were good.  These types of pictures are to make the artifacts look "aesthetically pleasing" aka really cool.

Tenaya Tunutmoak's Museum Shot of Owl

To finish off our day we took some full body and bust portraits.  Here we had to keep in mind what was in the background, how we wanted to pose our models and how shadows fell on them.

Kaitlyn Henry's Full Body Portrait of Meghan Cleveland

Angela Jones' Full Body Portrait of Marita Tunutmoak 

Kayleen Small's Bust portrait of Angela Jones