Getting ready...
I've been thinking for a while now how to approach this assignment which presents all kinds of challenges. It is not as easy as first imagined.I found myself having to define exactly what the actual contrast words meant e.g. referral to a dictionary re 'opaque'. What seems a good idea in theory fails in practice due to maybe an uninteresting composition presenting itself / too busy a background to define the concept visually e.g. a railway line for 'straight' / how to express 'diagonal' using flights of stairs in a block of flats - much more effective at night than during the day during tothe vagaries of light. Or the difficulty in delivering the concept accurately in 'photographic terms of technique'. It is also easy to become obsessive in looking for contrasts when out and about.
Some contrasts seem easier than others but in wanting to avoid more pedestrian interpretations I've come up against whether it is better to create a visual interpretation sometimes rather than pull something from the surroundings inside or out ( more satisfying not to 'create' I think ...at the moment !). What I am finding, not surprisingly, is how much I'm drawing from the previous exercises in deciding / shaping and executing shots.
So I'm gathering a number of pictures at the moment for each of my chosen constrasts, wanting to leave a little time after taking each shot before going back to assess how effective it is in expressing what I'm looking for... the theory is that that slight distance will help decide the final shot for each contrast.This may seem all rather serious but the actual process of getting ready and carrying out the actual assignment is proving very enjoyable !!
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