McDermott - Final Project Proposal
Megan McDermott
Subject: Landscape photography, elemental
For my final project I intend to photograph nature in its elemental state.
I want to explore photography in this area because while doing the ‘style’ assignment I was inspired
by the works of Harry Callahan and his unique composition of elements of nature. He photographed
not a large expanse of nature but narrowed it down to small frames filled with elements that have no
apparent narrative or progression to them. This allows the viewer to look at the image without any
preconceived notions of the subject or the meaning behind the photograph thus letting them give
meaning to the photograph or see slight details that would otherwise be overlooked. Since my subject
is the great outdoors, revisiting it should not be too hard. However, there are a few different places that
I want to photograph including Whipple Dam, a park on the way to a dog shelter I visit and Rothrock
State Forest. Some of these places will require me to ask a friend for a ride as I am reluctant to bike
an hour and forty-three minutes in the cold. The viewer of my photographs will care to see them simply
because it will be a different perspective of nature than if they were to go off into the woods and
photograph some trees. The difference being I intend to create photographs that evoke a mood
or a sensory feeling inside someone when offering my perspective of being surrounded by woods.
I want to convey my sense of connectedness with the natural world and the comfortableness and
surreality I feel when outside. Some challenges are going to finding things that strike me as a)
photo worthy and b) a good photo. For this assignment I took approximately two hundred photographs
and I found ten of them to be satisfactory and even those I could weed out more. Other than that, I
think my biggest challenge will be finding daylight to do this as most of my weekends are full and
my friends have school/work during the week.
I want to explore photography in this area because while doing the ‘style’ assignment I was inspired
by the works of Harry Callahan and his unique composition of elements of nature. He photographed
not a large expanse of nature but narrowed it down to small frames filled with elements that have no
apparent narrative or progression to them. This allows the viewer to look at the image without any
preconceived notions of the subject or the meaning behind the photograph thus letting them give
meaning to the photograph or see slight details that would otherwise be overlooked. Since my subject
is the great outdoors, revisiting it should not be too hard. However, there are a few different places that
I want to photograph including Whipple Dam, a park on the way to a dog shelter I visit and Rothrock
State Forest. Some of these places will require me to ask a friend for a ride as I am reluctant to bike
an hour and forty-three minutes in the cold. The viewer of my photographs will care to see them simply
because it will be a different perspective of nature than if they were to go off into the woods and
photograph some trees. The difference being I intend to create photographs that evoke a mood
or a sensory feeling inside someone when offering my perspective of being surrounded by woods.
I want to convey my sense of connectedness with the natural world and the comfortableness and
surreality I feel when outside. Some challenges are going to finding things that strike me as a)
photo worthy and b) a good photo. For this assignment I took approximately two hundred photographs
and I found ten of them to be satisfactory and even those I could weed out more. Other than that, I
think my biggest challenge will be finding daylight to do this as most of my weekends are full and
my friends have school/work during the week.
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