The first photograph was taken with us, 4 people including me, jumping around in different areas. I believe that the contrasting movement above and below the middle line increases the interest of the photograph. The top part of the photograph mainly shows our upper body moving, which doesn’t show a lot of movement. However, the bottom half of the photograph shows dynamic movement, showing a circular, or triangular shaped loop. The shutter speed of the camera was pretty slow, and I think that’s what made the photograph really capture the different movements in a quite clear way. However, I realized that we’re only able to see Emma, who wore a bright colored t-shirt. Next time, I would like to have people who’s wearing various types of bright colored clothes to take photographs together.

The second photograph shows the word, love. Each person was assigned to a specific alphabet, and tried to draw that alphabet in the air for a few seconds in order to capture the movement showing the alphabet. We made a few tries and as time went by, we were able to realized how the shutter speed matters a lot, and it decides how much it’ll show about the movement. I was trying to show the alphabet ‘V’ and I knew that constant, accurate movements leads to a higher clarity in the final photograph. Also, the alphabet ‘e’ was the most challenging one as it takes the longest to repeat the alphabet and at the same time, it requires more movements. Therefore, I was able to understand how minimum action leads to a clearer movement shown in the photograph. Next time, I’d like to try the same thing with another word, or using other tools such as paint or crayons instead of my hands to increase the engagement.