Not the typical question

[topsyturvy6234]

I need all of your help, please:

I want to illustrate through a photo album (paper, not online) what I would do during one day if I had only ten dollars to spend.

A few ideas of what is around me: A huge resovoir, a dam, a few rivers, a zoo, giant concrete corn, tennis courts (I play tennis), a golf course, a forest, and a few cool bridges.

I want to make this visually appealing as well as answer the question of what I would do if I had one free day and ten dollars to spend. I am also supposed to address who I would take with me (if anyone).

I'm just trying to get some ideas; not for any of you to do it for me.

I realize that this is a strange post, but any help?

Thanks.

[Radtech1]

Umm... One hand of Blackjack in Vegas. (Two hands if you go Downtown.)

Couldn't help it, as I am leaving for a seminar held there tomorrow.

If I read you right, the assignment is to turn in photos of inexpensive things that you like to do.

If you are asking us for ideas for photos, is that not the same as asking us what you like to do?

If that is correct, I have no idea what you like to do. If I am wrong in my understanding of what you are asking, could you rephrase and help me understand?

Rad

[topsyturvy6234]

I guess that I wasn't clear.

The assignment is to create an album of what you would do if you had a free day and ten dollars to spend.

I'm planning on doing it all by bike, so as to not was some of the $10 on gas for a car.

I'd like to include fishing, the actual bike riding, eating lunch among the stalks of concrete corn (tough to explain what these are, but you'll just have to believe), among other things.

I'm looking for the best way to capture all of these things (plus more things) in order to make it most aesthetically pleasing.

Make sense?

PS - I found a site that has a few (bad) pictures of the corn.

http://www.mewsic.com/Gallerie/corn.html

[Robert_Lay]

You lost me on the concrete corn.

[topsyturvy6234]

Forget the corn, I guess. I was just trying to name some distinctive things in my area that might help to make the assignment interesting.

Can anyone help me?

[SkipD]

I am imagining photos of you (or a stand-in for you) and possibly some people who either are or emulate your friends at the various attractions rather than just photos of the things/places. What you have described seems to dictate that people are an important part of the photos.

If you want to be in the photos, then a tripod and either using a self-timer in the camera or having an assistant with a remote cord to trigger the camera without touching it would be my solutions.

[J Rabin]

Well, if it was summer, I would buy sweet corn (you said corn, right), and stand outside the zoo (you said zoo, too) with a roaster and sell ears to passers-by. make money, make friends, satisfy human need.
End the day tripling your money.
Jack

[Tlee05]

You missed one thing for the end of the night, End up in bed with a woman/man :D

Is this for a competition or like school/college/uni etc work depending on how much detial you want to go to such as you could snap

you're self sleeping
waking up with the alarm showing differenting lighting
then going to get some food
and so on?

or is it you can snap at any thing as long as they look good to add to your book going from morning to night time?

[GSHodg]

Interesting challenge.

One idea...what not take it a step further and try a photo-documentary of how hard it is for down and out's to live on only a couple of dollars/pounds/euros/bhats whatever. Rather than how well off (I guess) people can live without spending...what if you had NOTHING? How would your day be?

very challenging, very gritty, and perhaps you (and I might try it one day) would educate ourselves too.

[Guitartists]

You could also include pics of the money exchanging hands when you do spend some.

[jfrancho]

Give the ten dollars to a stranger with the condition you get to follow them and photograph them as they spend it.

[Carzee]

Visit the library or an exhibit. Think on it a bit - Interiors with WAngles, low light shooting oportunities - looks moody. The big plus is that your assignment with library and art etc will attract the Judges - they don't usually much care for dams and corn and rustic charm - play to the audience, always think from the customer service/viewpoint. The patron-POV idea goes back to Michelangelo at least...

[MattL]

I have no idea on how many frames your after, but If I were documenting a day of my life like that, I would be sure to including the entire day, to make a complete storey. Breakfast, etc, as well as a shots showing me travelling from place to place.

finish it with something that we know makes it the end - the bed perhaps, is an ovbious one.

Maybe try attack it by writing a 100 word storey on your day, then pick the moments from that that stand out as being photogenic moments. Have a storey - a fight with your girlfriend perhaps, then you could spend a couple of the bucks on a rose for her?

Just thinking out loud...

[kenyc]

Buy $10 worth of gas, drive around, take pics.

KAC