I dont know where im meant to post something like this, but i thaught u guys would know best, im doing a photography project for GCSE art and cant think of a theme to do, i was wondering if anyone had any ideas , im looking for something that no one else will pick , i want to stand out. :help:

how about "at night on the Manor Estate"? with the follow-up "my stay at the Northern General"

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how about choosing a colour and taking photos of anything that are that colour - eg red - (post box, phone box, car, street sign, doors, litter, flowers).

Or go for a certain object - eg buttons - (so many gadgets have buttons, then there's door bells, lift buttons, phones, pelican crossings), you could just crop in really tight around the button so all your pics are the same size?

That's given me a couple of ideas anyway, I think I'll nip out with my camera!

You could always use a random ideas generator such as this one and see if it provides any good ideas

http://darcynorman.net/files/assignmentr.html

:)

how about choosing a colour and taking photos of anything that are that colour - eg red - (post box, phone box, car, street sign, doors, litter, flowers).

Or go for a certain object - eg buttons - (so many gadgets have buttons, then there's door bells, lift buttons, phones, pelican crossings), you could just crop in really tight around the button so all your pics are the same size?

That's given me a couple of ideas anyway, I think I'll nip out with my camera!

I like this idea, the first one with colours, i have to do a few pages of photos, go i could maybe do a page of each colour, one red, blue, yellow, green etc.. what do you guys think? , think that will work out? :)

Which GCSE are you doing, Fine Art or Contemporary Art or just straight Art? With Fine Art definatly, and I'm sure the others aswell, you should bear in mind thats it's very difficult to grade you on "ideas", so try to focus on the composition of the images and the use of colours and a flowing theme throughout them - get all the technical things right. You may want the objects to be in the centre foreground of the photo each time, or you might choose to scatter them, maybe placing them in the distance so you're eye is drawn through the image to the same colour in each. The second way means you will really have to think about the foreground in your image, as that will become the primary focus to begin with.

Which GCSE are you doing, Fine Art or Contemporary Art or just straight Art? With Fine Art definatly, and I'm sure the others aswell, you should bear in mind thats it's very difficult to grade you on "ideas", so try to focus on the composition of the images and the use of colours and a flowing theme throughout them - get all the technical things right. You may want the objects to be in the centre foreground of the photo each time, or you might choose to scatter them, maybe placing them in the distance so you're eye is drawn through the image to the same colour in each. The second way means you will really have to think about the foreground in your image, as that will become the primary focus to begin with.

Im doing Fine art, and another idea what i had in mind was to do some images black and white, with one item in colour, for example i could have a full black and white image with just a red post box on it etc, think some would look good in the distance aswell?

I did GCSE Fine Art, and I had a particular interest in photography, I continued with it at degree level and beyond. I was always warned that with photography in Fine Art GCSE it was difficult to get the high marks because you need to show the range of your skills (painting, drawing, etching etc). In the end I did a mixed media relief piece working with photographs that I had printed and painted on, dyed and coloured. If you've talked to your teacher and theyve said photography wont be a problem for them to mark (the curriculum will probably have changed a bit since I was there), ask them exactly what they would be marking on, chances are they'll tell you. Mine told me what I needed to do to reach those higher marks, and yours may do the same. With regards to selective colouring (the objects in colour, the rest black and white), bring that up with your teacher too because you dont know whether you get marks for photo editing, or whether your curriculum makes it easier to mark a more traditional image that hasnt been fiddled with on photo editing software! Hope this helps

Im doing Fine art, and another idea what i had in mind was to do some images black and white, with one item in colour, for example i could have a full black and white image with just a red post box on it etc, think some would look good in the distance aswell?This is a very overused technique, particularly with red objects and it is so very easy to do nowadays in software. So be careful about such things.

This is a very overused technique, particularly with red objects and it is so very easy to do nowadays in software. So be careful about such things.

What about everyday objects in unusual colours then?
Things like those white phone boxes in Hull (they always freak me out) and the purple carrots that have just been reintroduced and pink black-cabs etc.

What about everyday objects in unusual colours then?
Things like those white phone boxes in Hull (they always freak me out) and the purple carrots that have just been reintroduced and pink black-cabs etc.
Possibly with those sorts of oddities, just leave image full colour, otherwise it may look like you simply coloured a B+W image oddly. With freaky subjects, a more normal image/location setting can be more powerful.

Im doing Fine art, and another idea what i had in mind was to do some images black and white, with one item in colour, for example i could have a full black and white image with just a red post box on it etc, think some would look good in the distance aswell?

Too obvious Random Everyone does it. A good source of themes will be past exam papers. These have come up in the past

Clothes pegs
Feathers
measurement
irridescent
man on phone
surfaces
texture
People in a queue
Movement
Multiple image