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Seeing with Intent - Assignment 7: Technical Choices & Intent
📸 Photo Challenge: Choose With Purpose
Core lesson: Every technical choice you make should serve what you’re trying to say.
🎯 Your Intent
Before you lift the camera, write one short sentence:
“I want this photo to feel __________.”
Examples: tense, intimate, isolated, celebratory, quiet, unresolved.
That feeling is your north star.
🔧 Your Technical Commitments
Based on that intent, make deliberate choices for:
- Focal length (compression vs context)
- Aperture (separation vs clarity)
- Shutter speed (stillness vs motion)
- ISO / grain (clean vs texture)
- Distance to subject (observer vs participant)
You don’t need to use all of them—but every choice you do make should be defensible.
🚫 The Constraint
You may not say:
“This is what my camera/lens does best.”
If you can’t explain why a setting helps your intent, don’t use it.
📷 The Shoot
Make 3–5 frames of the same subject without changing location. If you change settings, it must be because your intent demanded it—not habit.
✍️ The Reflection (required)
When you share, include:
- Your intent sentence
- One technical choice you made on purpose
- One choice you didn’t make—and why
What this builds:
- Awareness over autopilot
- Fewer “technically fine” photos
- Stronger visual storytelling through restraint.
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