Capturing the moment: Assignment 1: Objects as Subjects

Assignment aim: Apply visual elements on ordinary objects

Technique: straight photography (no digital manipulation

required)

Task: Express the following visual qualities via photography

(one photo each):

Line
Shape
Form
Pattern
Texture

1st Attempt

Lines

I took this picture in August, roughly a week or two after National Day. I thought it would be an interesting picture of lines (made up of small flags). However, my classmates commented that the flat at the background is like a "thorn in the eye" L

Shapes

I feel that shape is one of the hardest to get. It’s easy to snap a photo of ‘shape’ (e.g. bottle caps, windows, doors- shoot straight on) but it’s so hard to get an interesting one.

Form

I wasn’t sure what ‘form’ should look like. This is my interpretation of form. Comments received from classmates include:

-nice photograph

-look more like pattern

-look like shapes

Pattern

Iluma is simply a piece of art by itself.

A crystal window panel at the art museum. I love the colour!!

Texture

I thought this is a pretty cool texture. However, a few people saw it as lines. (I wonder if I should use this as lines?)

Afterword

This is a pretty challenging assignment. Initially, I thought this would be easy. Obviously, it turned out to be otherwise. There are too many interpretations to a piece of photograph. On the whole, I really enjoyed working on this assignment. Because of this assignment, I have gone to places that I may never go and have discovered new perspectives towards many things. It’s amazing how an ordinary object can turn out to be so interesting under the camera lenses.