Creative Writing Assignment

A Night Out in Oneonta

Another Saturday at the bar
OST, Sip, Fox
All of my friends are here
Beer and Cigarettes
Loud college kids
2 o'clock in the morning
Crawling into bed

Poem & Creativity on Main Street

Main Street
Kate Pattenaude

A familiar block
For all.
Pedestrians walk
And stop.
Cars Barely beep.
The smell
Of burnt pizza
And beer,
Cigarettes and concrete.
Muffled Sounds
Of young men shouting,
Must be coming from
My roommates
The drunks roam
The streets.
This town is so strange,
Thank goodness.

Main Street Portraits

Street Portraits

1.) Street Portraits- I stayed a fair distance from people for most of my shots. It was hard to catch the right moment in time to make it compositionally pleasing. There is a lot of multi tasking that comes with photographing this way. When I got really close, as in a few feet from them, I asked them for their permission to photograph them. The problem with this method is people wanted to pose and I was missing out on "the moment".

5.) Facial Expressions- When someone looks into the camera you can feel the connection between you and that person. It draws you in. Eye contact is the first thing you notice in a photograph. When the subject looks away you focus more on the action of what they are doing, their body language, and their surroundings.

6.) After you are done- As I went along it got easier to ask people if I could photograph them. To make them feel better I would tell them to pretend like I wasn't even there and continue what they were doing. If you know the person, conversation is always a way to get your subject to relax. Goofing around with them is too. It loosens them up and breaks a barrier of awkwardness.

Volleyball Class

Dance Class

Street Photography