Week 33 – Door
Just the Facts: You have 7 days to take a photo of a door.
All I have to do is take a picture of a door? Sweet, I won’t let it hit me on the way out!
Door seems like too easy of a challenge, doesn’t it? But it’s not as easy as you might think at first. Our goal is for you to capture an image in your camera that showcases the beauty, the character, or the story of a door. Maybe it’s a weathered door having opened and closed on many stories, or maybe it’s a door that takes us into the next generation. It’s more than just a piece of wood that opens and closes in a space.
Or perhaps there’s a story to this door. Perhaps it is the story of the person who just left. Or the person who is just coming in. Think of a scene in a movie where the camera is slowly zooming in on a closed door. There’s a lot more going on in the viewer’s brain besides the simple details of this apparatus.
Look for unique doors, to start with, those with great textures and designs, or those with historical significance.
Perhaps you make your own door. Perhaps it’s small in scale, and you can incorporate your own lighting into this small scene.
The time of day you shoot will be worth considering. Maybe visit the location at different times of the day to see the different moods created with the light, and watch for the shadows that can elevate the moodiness in a blink of an eye.
Also think about your angle. Shooting the door straight on might seem sensible, but watch what happens when you change your angle – get low, get wide, or get close to show a portion of the door that is most interesting.
Maybe you can involve someone with the door, entering or exiting, or standing there to show us the scale of one to the other. It all adds up to a great story, after all.
This theme is open for you to have fun and let your creativity flow. Open your mind.
