Good photo, bad photo.

For this first assignment we were asked to go out and take two photos of the same subject. One good, one bad. 

This first photo is what I call my good one. This is Western senior Nico Daves, 21, working on her art project depicting ‘concept of space and linear design’. “The project is done in the style of Albrecht Durer,” Daves said. “It is a full hands on project, we built the frames ourselves. It’s a lot of work.”

I choose this photo because it depicts the frame through which Daves had to work and the object she was drawing. The background is clean, although I would have cropped the entire right side of the photo and focused closer in on her as she worked. I did not feel it necessary to show her face, simply because it was more about the concentration of the work at hand. In retrospect, I should have gotten down in front of her and photographed her face through the device she used to graph the artwork she was drawing. 

This is good photo number 2. Street performer Travis Meginniss, 28, performs for passer-by’s Wednesday April 6, on Railroad avenue in downtown Bellingham. “It’s more about me playing than getting the money,” Meginniss said. “It’s about me getting better.”

I had another photo (see below) where he plays for a grandmother and her grandchild, however, I did not have their contact info and could not submit the photo for photojournalism. I liked this photo because it clearly shows what it is Meginniss is doing and where he is playing. 

 

The bad photos from this take have been lost. They comprised of too many distractions in the Nico Daves photo, and a close up out-of-focus shot of Meginniss.