Metaphor Self-Portrait

Read this carefully. This assignment is a picture about you. It is a portrait of you. The only thing different is that you are not in it. This picture is a STILL LIFE, a metaphor that contains at least three things that represent who you are. Your friends should be able to look at it and recognize you in the picture. This picture should not contain any living things, only still objects. It should represent things you are passionate about.

Give thought to the elements of good composition! Pay special attention to lighting, background, and the arrangement of items. Take some with flash and some without. Take a photo and then change the arrangement, add or subtract an item, change the lighting, and take another. You will make a contact sheet with 12 DIFFERENT photos that represent YOU. There should be lots of variety in the arrangement of objects and the lighting among the 12 photos. You will turn in the best one as a color 5x7, manipulated in PhotoShop if you wish. The contact sheet is due on Monday, December 11th, and the final at the end of class on Tuesday the 12th.