I define the Narrative Social Landscape as anything really. Anything that is affected by humans in some way. Whatever my perception is on that, I think is fitting. 

I will post my contact sheets up in class tomorrow. I have 81 shots and I'll get those up tomorrow. 

Here are my selected images:

Lust

Wrath

Gluttony

Greed

Sloth

Envy

Pride

I think people photograph because they're interested in documenting something and then making it into their own. There aren't many things we can call ours in the world, so each photograph is something that we've seen or we want to create. It all becomes something we've done. Something we own. As for what I want to take photographs of... Well, that's a tough question to answer. I suppose I'm just giving my own view on subjects. I want to create interesting images and compositions the way I want them to be. There's no specific thing I want to take photos of. I just want them to be something I enjoy creating and giving my own view on.

My creative process I find is simply a process. I have a hard time working from a plan. I can do it, definitely. However, I feel if you're working specifically from a plan, your mind is too closed off to the possibilities. When I work, I just do it. Whatever happens, happens. It's pretty simple, really. I start a project with an idea in mind, but it changes and adapts as time goes on. I'm not rigid in my working style and I think it works out well for me. If I overly plan things, I find that I'm either disappointed that it didn't go the way I wanted, or I'm happy it didn't go the way I wanted. While working on something artistic, it doesn't matter if there are people around me or loud noises or anything like that. I'll just work right through it. It's mostly because I get into the process and I'm concentrating, so not much can affect that. I can talk and multitask and still get my work done the way I want it to. Of course there are those times that I end up not liking how it turns out and I'll just power through it and redo it or accept it as a learning experience. 

I ended up changing a few things in my Seven Deadly Sins project. I changed to a different image for Wrath, I muted the color palette so the tones matched better, and for my Gluttony shot, I combined two images to get what I wanted.

Pride

Gluttony

Sloth

Greed

Envy

Wrath

Lust

Here are the results from our in class exercise. 

Here are the contact sheets for the Flenaur assignment:

So for this, I took a trip to Newburyport, Mass. I got a ton of pictures. I did miss one opportunity where a guy was laying out on a bench by the water and underneath where he was laying, there was a sign that said "Don't Feed the Wildlife". That would have made for an entertaining shot, but he got up before I could try to inconspicuously take his picture. I did some experimenting with these shots. I have the originals, black and white version, muted color version and the black and white with some color version. I haven't decided which to print yet...

Originals: