Diorama Project

For our fourth project for Introduction to Photography we visited the Witte art museum. A dinosaur exhibit was being presented at the art museum during our visit. Our goal with this project was to photograph the dioramas presented at the dinosaur exhibit.

Unfortunately, the photographs that I took of the dioramas did not turn out as I was expecting them to. Our goal was to angle our cameras about 45 degrees to the glass of the dioramas to avoid glare and to capture good light. Also, we aimed to use others and ourselves to block the unnatural light sources and capture good images of the dioramas.

After examining my photographs from the Witte museum, I realized that I did not capture the light properly. I learned that I need to be more sensitive and aware to the angles at which I photograph and the light I am capturing in my image. Many of my pictures for the diorama project turned out with a slight blur, and showed the unnatural lighting of the exhibit.

Throughout this project I realized that I get claustrophobic when taking photos around that many people. Therefore, in the future I will try to take photos when there are not a lot of people around. I think that I will get better quality photographs by doing that.