The use of point of view, foreground, and background to distort size.
Same concept, but altering picture contents to tell a story.
I took these two pictures for a class that I took at the State Univ. of New York. The assignment was to select a color in use that in two pictures representing low key and high key. I wanted to have a little fun with the assignment so I decided to tell a story of the domino bullies and the tic-tac’s. The first picture is to represent three of the domino bullies cornering a tic-tac. You can all imagine what happens next. The nex picture is to represent all of the tic-tac’s finding one of the domino’s all alone.
To take the pictures I used a zoom lens at around 200mm to partially blur the background, and limit the depth of field. My aperture F-stop was around 4 which left my depth at around 3 inches. From there I had to wiggle around on my belly on the sidewalk to get the picture into focus and hide unwanted background elements. I can only imagine what my neighbors thought of me laying on the sidewalk with a camera, can of tic-tacs, and 3 dominoe’s. Now that picture would have been priceless.
In the end, I was pleased with how the pictures turned out. Not fully from a quality standpoint, but I was more happy that the story conveyed through the pictures and most of my classmates really “got” what I was trying to do.
