Project Summary and Reflection

The photography montage project was something completely different for me. I have not been exposed to much photography before college. The thought of a montage was somewhat scary considering I had no idea where to start or how to create a montage. If it weren't for the in-class montage examples, I would not even know what a montage was. Although the thought of doing this project was intimidating, I was also excited to work with photography and try something new. My original idea was to photograph people, thinking the profile of someone's face would photograph nicely and I would be able to place the pictures together like a puzzle. My montages of my roommate and my friends turned out nicely, using close-up and distant shots to piece together their faces. I varied the scales and angles and it turned out dramatic but pleasant. I changed my idea to taking pictures of a tree and myself, with the point of view changing from me to the tree. It was a challenge to take pictures in such a way that I could print them off and piece them together without cropping or cutting or by using any form of manipulation on them, however, throughout the course of making smaller to larger montages, I learned what montages are, how to create them, and how beautiful they are. I enjoyed being able to do a photography project and I was very pleased with the end result of my project.