Portraits

Last class, Sandy (our professor) dispensed point-and-shoot digital cameras and instructed us to begin taking amazing portraits of one another. This photo of Megan is the fruit of my several-minutes labor.

We didn't have very much time so I had Megan run up the stairs in Hamilton Smith and pose behind the railing while I took shots from the landing below. I like stair railings, and objects like them, which offer repetitive geometric shapes that form a pattern. I think these geometric patterns make a nice contrast to the very organic human subject, and I feel that the classic design of the stair railing gives the portrait an academic feeling.