A brief recap on the earlier post: I gave myself 99/100 for this assignment. This is taking into consideration of the Benchmark: Jillyn’s pictures of her snails.
Firstly, her subject matter and treatment of the theme was really well executed. The 3 photos link up and show the movement of the snail creeping upwards, and each shot fitted the 3 -isms adequately.
My only complain is that by showing the movement of creeping upwards, all 3 photographs has a binding expressionistic theme. Thus, the realism shot fall short of being a realistic one, and transits into the expressionistic spectrum.
Besides that, the formalism shot focuses mainly on the shape and texture of the shell of the snail, which is aptly formalistic. The choice of blurring the background was also ingenious, as it draws attention to the form, which is what I understand formalism to be.
The expressionistic shot is almost illustrative of a story. The snail at the bottom of the fence leads the eyes upwards to the bright light at the top. He explanation of “someone at the bottom will eventually find his way to the top” is all the more ingenious and well explained. Of course, the bottom up angle was also really good thinking on her part.
Thus due to the one and only minor complain i have, her snail collection gets 99.5/100. The best I’ve seen from the class so far. It really has the wow factor.
The other photos that stood out in this assignment are:
1. Stephanie’s expressionistic shot of the “State Land” sign. It fits the theme of the government taking away the land very well. The fact that the “Land” is not in full leaves me thinking that it’s “Law” instead, which is what makes this picture even more interesting. The alternation between meaning. Powerful.
The other 2 photos were rather ambiguous though. I guess it’s because they are all desaturated, making every picture look dramatic and expressionistic. I do agree that it’s a difficult subject she chose though. But good still.
concept: 40/50, tech: 45/50
85/100!
2. Mike’s Last shot of the sole plant creeping out of the structure has the dramatic feel that is very very very expressionistic.
But like Steph, the desaturation makes every shot looks expressionistic.
Concept wise, 35/50, technicalities: 50/50
85/100!
