This week’s project came about due to three factors.

First, I wanted to do a photography project as I really haven’t picked up my camera thus far this year. I think this is partially due to the fact that it is cold out and I am a wuss, or that one of the goals I set for myself this year was to shoot with a purpose.

The second factor behind this week’s project is the fact that I have a voucher from Black’s Photography that is for 25 4X6 prints and the voucher expires at the end of the month, so I wanted to put it to good use. This didn’t end up happening simply because the image I decided to create was made from 50+ photos and to try and print it with 25 4×6 photos would not have done it justice.

The third factor deals with a photography project that Laurier Secondary School Students have inspired me to do. On display at White Oaks Mall there have been photography projects that are a series of smaller images taken of various angles of the same scene that are overlapping to create a larger image. I call this a “Poor Man’s” Panorama¹ and have fallen in particular love with these types of imaged.

Although the concept and project is something simple it is something that I have wanted to do for some time. I think what is going to be the biggest challenge for myself will be the following:

• Finding and appropriate subject/theme
  
• Taking enough varied shots at different focal lengths to make it interesting Found that this was hard to do
• Finding ways to bring the scene alive

I only have 25 prints from Black’s to use for this project, so I will need to pick my images carefully.

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This project didn’t go exactly the way I wanted it to, but hey, that’s life. So below are the results of last week’s project.  Stay tuned later in this week for my comments and reflection on what I thought about this project and what I learned from it.

Before completing the above image I took some time while at school (where I have been spending a large amount of my time) to procrastinate from my school work and I decided to take some pictures and experiment first with this style.  The below two images were created prior to making the above final project image.

1. After some research I realized that this photography style was ‘defined’ by David Hockney and apparently it may be called ‘joiner” style. [↩]