conceptual photography

[justamemory98]

i just recieved an assisnment for school about conceptual photography and i'm stuck on ideas. i took a roll of film dealing with body image and anorexia but it turned out bad. i need some ideas on some good concepts or picture ideas. thanks

[Barb42]

Forget the negative stuff - its overdone by students. Do the unexpected.

Suggestion: Ballet dancer on the rocks by a stream, or in a coffee house, or in a library. Sounds odd, but use the concept of a daydream - person sitting by the stream or in a library reading but really day dreaming about what they actually would like to be doing. Say a ballet dancer, or a astronaut, or a cop. No one an see the dream character but its there. Negatives are easy and mundane in photography - the positive is more unexpected and might catch someone's eye.

[Carzee]

The thanksgiving machines, cyclical theme.

Water irrigation sprayers and farm closeups (machinery plowing the dirt), harvest machines, transport & market, marketing machinery for the stereotypical urban family thanksgiving, sewerage seperation machines, water reclaimation and fetilizer production (machines), farm dirt and machines.


Machines are good to photograph, comp lines and action aplenty. Ideas for landscape, portrait, abstracts, still life, its all there. Morals and meanings can tangent off all the way through the cycle.

[Carzee]

And to POTN, welcome.

With the voice of Yoda, trully, I speak.

[BillMarks]

Classic conceptual themes include: Man Vs. Man; Man Vs. Nature; Man Vs. Himself.