The goal of this assignment was to capture gestalt in photos on South Congress.
In the first photo I think I captured gestalt in the continuity and movement of the woman with the dress, and also with the grouping/proximity of the woman and her dog. There is also a repetition of patterns in not only the bricks, but also her dress. In the second photo I also tried to show grouping/proximity between the man and woman. Along with that there is also some containment. The two people are contained in between the two poles. The poles show symmetry and asymmetry at the same time. They show symmetry because they are on either side of the people, however they show asymmetry because one is close to us and the other one is on the other side of the street.
I think the strongest parts of these works is that they show gestalt and they also carry a theme between the two of them. They both contain yellow and show grouping between to people.
The weakest part of these works is that they aren’t as artistic as I would like, they are mostly just showing the technical parts of the photographs.
This project can be strengthened conceptually by maybe shooting photos of people from the front instead of only the back, and maybe taking pictures of other objects or architecture.
Technically, I could probably vary the gestalt principles in the pictures or find a way to use more of them in each photo.
