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Alyssa
Stranger 11 of 100
Alyssa was the second person I saw in the park near the mall while I was waiting for my wife to finish shopping. She was getting ready to start working on homework near the pond in a shady area. She was actually in the most ideal location in the entire park because of how it was lit and had it had excellent back drop. I believe she had walked by while I was photographing Steve and Ben (Stranger(s) 10) and I explained to her what I was doing and if she would be a willing participant; she happily obliged. At stranger 11 I am already starting to feel a little bit more comfortable moving the subject around. I was able to snap of three different shots at different lengths. You can find these shots in the album on my home page. I really liked the color of her dress in the green fields so I wanted to try a full body portrait. I ended up picking the close up because it was by far my favorite and her eyes really came out in this image. In the other images I thought the sculpture was a little distracting, particularly because we had not ties to it.
I chatted for about five minutes and was surprised she was working on homework because it is still very early August and my classes don’t start again until the end of the month. Either way she told me it will be her very first semester and that school was starting very soon and she was trying to get a leg up. In hind sight I would have really liked to tell a story with this image and I should have asked her to get some shots while she was working on her homework. I think it would have captured the enthusiasm and hard work Alyssa has for her future. One thing I really want to get out of this project is a way to actually tell about the person without using words.
Best of luck to you Alyssa in picking a major and thanks for being a part of my 100 strangers project!
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page (www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/)
Alyssa
Stranger 11 of 100
Alyssa was the second person I saw in the park near the mall while I was waiting for my wife to finish shopping. She was getting ready to start working on homework near the pond in a shady area. She was actually in the most ideal location in the entire park because of how it was lit and had it had excellent back drop. I believe she had walked by while I was photographing Steve and Ben (Stranger(s) 10) and I explained to her what I was doing and if she would be a willing participant; she happily obliged. At stranger 11 I am already starting to feel a little bit more comfortable moving the subject around. I was able to snap of three different shots at different lengths. You can find these shots in the album on my home page. I really liked the color of her dress in the green fields so I wanted to try a full body portrait. I ended up picking the close up because it was by far my favorite and her eyes really came out in this image. In the other images I thought the sculpture was a little distracting, particularly because we had not ties to it.
I chatted for about five minutes and was surprised she was working on homework because it is still very early August and my classes don’t start again until the end of the month. Either way she told me it will be her very first semester and that school was starting very soon and she was trying to get a leg up. In hind sight I would have really liked to tell a story with this image and I should have asked her to get some shots while she was working on her homework. I think it would have captured the enthusiasm and hard work Alyssa has for her future. One thing I really want to get out of this project is a way to actually tell about the person without using words.
Best of luck to you Alyssa in picking a major and thanks for being a part of my 100 strangers project!
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page (www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/)