The evening of October 12 was as calm as any other evening. I went to the library to meet up with a few classmates to work on a Flickr project for school. After a while He felt he was hungry and wanted to go to the grill, so Evan, Alex and I decided to walk him there. On the walk we noticed a bike lying on the ground. But this was no ordinary bike. It appeared to be beat up, like it had been thrown viciously, or dropped from the top of a building perhaps. After spotting it we couldn’t draw any conclusion to what had happened, so we continued walking to the grill. Alex, Evan and I, didn’t stay long at Warch and the three of us proceeded to walk back towards the library when we saw something in the night sky. It was a strange figure; its dark shape contrasting in the moonlight. You could see that it was long, big, and that it had distinctive sharp wings. As we continued to observe this odd figure we noticed it flying closer and closer but, still we could not make out what it was. Then out of nowhere, flying faster than imaginable; there it was a purple dragon. We started running in chaos as we looked back at this great purple beast. Poor Evan, with his broken leg didn’t stand a chance; he was the first to go. Then the beast snatched up Alex as him and me were frantically running side by side. I could only run and anticipate what was next to happen.
In the meanwhile at the grill He witnessed the whole thing happen. Little did anyone know He was a trained and very powerful Warlock. After seeing the dragon claim three victims He went into action and hunted the beast down. He caught up to it as it was resting on top of main hall. It was an epic battle between the two, but He with his fire power managed to subdue the purple dragon and drain its life. The triumphant hero He, was upset about not being able to save his friends, but saved many more lives in the sacrifice of the few.
This was our story for the Flickr project we were assigned in class (slightly embellished). Our storyline was awesome; once we had it lined out we figured that the purple dragon part of it would be a great twist for our professor. We got together Wednesday night and set up a plan to go out the next day in the daylight and take as many pictures as possible, individually. Thursday evening when met again, we decided that we didn’t quite like the day-time pictures and set out together to capture the pictures at night. With He’s digital camera at hands, we went out on the adventure.
Once out in the night it kind of just all came together and with our storyline in hand we started taking some great pictures to use. We knew that there were not going to be any real dragons out, so we had to take some pictures which we could photo shop (see below He standing at an angle to make it look like he’s fighting the dragon). We also had to use photo shop on the Lawrentian one, and the dragon in the night sky picture. In the end they all turned out well, especially the dragon in the moonlight one.
Another cool aspect about the photography part of it was the use of perspective. We had one where Evan was holding his cast in the air and we had laid his scooter down to make seem as if he was being picked up by the dragon. In the meanwhile, Alex and I are running in the background, this one is by far my favorite picture.
I honestly have to say that I have never had as much fun with a school project as I had with this one. I have never made a slideshow story with just pictures before. Like what Jennifer Woodard Maderazo says in her article, ” The way Flickr is designed makes discovering new images and new people easy and even fun.” I think this goes for our project too. Maybe not quite the Maderazo means with discovering new people through Flickr community, but I got to know the members of my group better and that was fun, also seeing/discovering our class photos was a blast. Because of this experience with Flickr I have decided to open an account and do some amateur photography. I have done some photography at sporting events in the past but there is not a lot of freedom in that. I figure with Flickr I can now definitely broaden my horizons in photography and get the freedom and feedback that I need.
I agree with you I think we all had a great time doing this project, and getting to interact with our classmates. It was also a really fun story to put together. I see your point on actually using flickr its a cool tool that allows for alot of creativity in each photo.
ReplyDeleteCamera angle was certainly a difficulty and an enjoyment! Nice angle on the last shot. It's nice that you put your own story as a sports photographer.
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