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Hey! Welcome to the Self Assignments Blog! My goal for this blog is simple: To give people something to think about while shooting. Feel free to read through and try some of the assignments. If you'd like, you can put yourself through "Self-Assignments 101" or "SA101". It'll be challenging to your imagination, camera and your mind. Most importantly though, it'll be fun!

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Chapter 2 Review

We’ve officially come to the end of Chapter 2. It was a bit of an odd chapter. I usually won’t give you two open ended assignments.

Alright. In section one, the assignment was to take three pictures of fall in your area. This one shouldn’t have been too hard. You should have focused on showing as much of fall in each picture as you could.

For section two, we had our first contest. Foods. You had to take three pictures of your favorite foods. Some of you may have taken one picture of your favorite three foods. Others may have put several of their favorite foods in each picture. Either way was fine.
The point of this assignment was to get you to focus on taking a picture of food in a studio-style environment or taking it someplace that would go well with the food. For example, if you said you liked hamburgers, maybe you would have taken a picture of a hamburger with some condiment bottles next to it.

The third section was our first open ended assignment. Collections. I’m not going to talk about what you should have done because there were no rules or guides. It was up to you. The only thing I hope you did was to use your imagination.

In the fourth section, your assignment was to take a picture representing your favorite sport. You should have tried to show us as much of the sport as possible. If you did that, then that’s awesome. If not, you’re welcome to try this or any other assignment again sometime if you’d like.

The final assignment in Chapter 2 was another open ended assignment. I’m not going to discuss it because of it’s open ended nature. Imaginations!

I hope you enjoyed Chapter 2. There’s a lot more to come in Chapter Three. Get ready for some fun adventures around your city and some new challenges for your imagination, gear and mind.

Got an assignment of your own? Send it to uassign@jalexsmith.com.

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