This last photo session really was a fun and interesting. After two sessions and critiques, I’ve finally narrowed down a theme and found laws of Gestalt with relative ease. I decided during this last session to not use my phone. This time I went to the library and checked out a DSLR camera. I also decided to go down S.Congress during the afternoon, as I went during the evening during the other two sessions.

So during the last two critiques, I realized I never really had a solid theme. I had themes, but they weren’t very strong themes. However, this time I have a concrete theme with my photos that all follow similar laws of Gestalt. As you can see below, I ended up going with a themes focused on heads, human and not. I found these in a little store focused on Mexican and other various cultures. I took plenty of photos, around 110, but noticed how these all went together.

As I had said in my previous post, I was going to attempt and find Gestalt with people again, but this new theme I realized I had going on seemed much better to me at least. That and I wasn’t able to photograph as many people as I did last time. I although i did end up doing something similar to what I said I would do. I mentioned I would try to take photos of faces, and to an extent I did.

As you can see, the most obvious law of Gestalt present in my photos is Symmetry. Every face is nearly perfectly symmetrical. My photos of Frida and the demon mask follow the law of Containment, as they were on a frame and bag respectively. Meanwhile the skull and tiger pillow were three-dimensional. I really do like how these photos came out, and hope others in class will enjoy them.

Every photo session felt better than the last and I can’t wait to see what other projects we’ll do for class. Below is my contact sheet, the 4 pictures I’ve chose for the critique and edited versions of them.