Gotta love those MIT kids

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited March 11, 2011 in Street and Documentary
So two weeks ago, the Photo A Week assignment for my MIT class was to shoot a stranger from within 10 feet without asking permission - and to shoot them from below the waste. I almost fell on the floor when I saw this. And remember, these kids are rocket scientists, not art students, photo students, journalism students; this class is their only photo class at MIT and may be their only 'art' class. :rofl
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    B.D.
    I can't open your shot--I think it's the system I'm logged into. Will have to wait til I get home, but you have me frothing at the mouth with anticipation. What did they do?! lol--I will know in 5 hours.
    Liz A.
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  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    B.D.
    I can't open your shot--I think it's the system I'm logged into. Will have to wait til I get home, but you have me frothing at the mouth with anticipation. What did they do?! lol--I will know in 5 hours.

    It is your system - I just clicked on the link and it popped right open. Ah well, the five hours will pass quickly. rolleyes1.gif
    bd@bdcolenphoto.com
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." Bob Dylan

    "The more ambiguous the photograph is, the better it is..." Leonard Freed
  • SyncopationSyncopation Registered Users Posts: 341 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    A great example of a literal translation - if there was any hint of irony this would be an A+, if not I'd be thinking Aspergers.
    Syncopation

    The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. - Brook Atkinson- 1951
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    bdcolen wrote: »
    So two weeks ago, the Photo A Week assignment for my MIT class was to shoot a stranger from within 10 feet without asking permission - and to shoot them from below the waste. I almost fell on the floor when I saw this. And remember, these kids are rocket scientists, not art students, photo students, journalism students; this class is their only photo class at MIT and may be their only 'art' class. rolleyes1.gif

    B.D.

    I can usually overlook misspelling, grammatical errors and such. However, I'm a little less prone to be forgiving of a college professor....paticularly when the error almost caused me to roll around on the floor laughing. The correct word above should be " waist ", not " waste ". Just say'in.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • SyncopationSyncopation Registered Users Posts: 341 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    surely you mean particularly rather than paticularly? eek7.gif
    Syncopation

    The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. - Brook Atkinson- 1951
  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    lol I just saw the shot--he did follow your directions:)
    Liz A.
    _________
  • jdryan3jdryan3 Registered Users Posts: 1,353 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    bdcolen wrote: »
    So two weeks ago, the Photo A Week assignment for my MIT class was to shoot a stranger from within 10 feet without asking permission - and to shoot them from below the waste..
    Reading this originally I thought it was the shooter had to hold the camera below their waist (the Shooter's) and shoot up towards the subject. But even if it was to shoot the subject only below the waist, that is a nice capture no matter what. The skaters in the background really make the shot in my opinion.
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  • PhotogbikerPhotogbiker Registered Users Posts: 351 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    rolleyes1.gif Below the waist.....love it.

    Kind of like the kid that gets hurt out playing and runs to mom and cries "I got an owie". Mom looks at him asks "where?"

    "on the slide"
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,323 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    Syncopation wrote: »
    surely you mean particularly rather than paticularly? eek7.gif

    Well, I was hoping it would be B.D. who would pick up on my using a misspelled word and seize the opportunity to rib me in return. I just found the use of " waste " , in that instance , to be somewhat comical. I'm sure B.D. recognizes my comments as being in jest....and why I opened myself up to the same ribbing.

    Tom
    I always wanted to lie naked on a bearskin rug in front of a fireplace. Cracker Barrel didn't take kindly to it.
  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    Took you literally and figuratively! clap.gif
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