I went outside with Becca H., and we were discussing where to go with the assignment, and because she forgot her ID, she had to tell the security officer that she was only stepping outside for a minute without an ID. This caught my attention - the security officer was there every day (whether it was that one specifically or another). So, I wanted to give the security booth a face, so I asked him if it was okay to take a picture of him.
In the process of stepping back and turning on the camera (switching the on switch, and rotating the lens and camera body around to the typical position), I accidentally took the picture below.
Two things came to mind after seeing this picture much later - the picture itself was an accident, and it was taken in a portrait orientation, rather than the expected landscape, also an accident.
There are a lot of accidents that happen in artmaking, but also in just about everything else. There are happy ones and disappointing ones, and in art, you choose to fix it, work with it, or toss it out altogether.
In digital photography, the interesting thing about making mistakes is that you can make "mistakes" over and over and continue to "mass-produce" new images. In Photoshop, we can hide, discolour, and orient a photograph. However, composition and perspective is an important aspect to photography and though cropping is available, composition and perspective (and focus as well) generally cannot be modified after a photograph is taken.
So how can I/we expand a photograph's composition and perspective beyond Photoshop? A photograph is a flat image, so how can we change our perspective while still working with the flatness?
I think it would be interesting to play with various ways to "display" the image, either digitally or physically, to bring out the story of the "accident."
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