This assignment is a complete 360 from the first one. I went down a little earlier in the evening, brought my dslr instead of just using my phone, and took a lot of photos instead of being so timid. This paid off, I produced material that I really like, but I also had a hard time creating a single collection that looked unified, had a theme that I can really get behind, and featured the elements of gestalt the way I wanted to. I took pictures of lights/lighting, passageways/doors, nature, and industrial fixtures because I generally find some sort of juxtaposition between those elements that’s intriguing to me. I didn’t want to use any one of those elements to make up my theme, so I decided my general theme was Saturday night, because I feel like a captured that energy.

In terms of Gestalt, a lot of my images have several components combined into one image, but I was drawn more to similarity (through repetition), symmetry, and common fate. Some of those elements are ones I have always been drawn to, and some are ideas that I’ve never really looked for or never really liked taking pictures of, so I made a point to try and find them or try to capture them, even if I didn’t do a really good job of it. Hopefully each piece shows a little bit of gestalt shining through in it.