Continuing the series of posts with results from my photojournalism course essays, the theme this time are elements from the book from Roland Barthes.

That plus one other composition rule.

Still exploring night photos, I recruited a friend (Marcos) to go to Barigui Park here in Curitiba, the city were I’m living currently.

At first, my idea was to take just one photo required for the essay.
The point for this photo, the first on the post, was to use the horizont line rule.
But while we were there, once again with a tense sensation over our shoulders (it’s dangerous and risky to go to parks at night here… it’s almost like asking to be robbed), we boldly decided to go for a stroll on the park.

And we were rewarded! We found animais from the park, which during the day usually stay hidden (because the park is always crowded during the day), walking close to us, almost fearless.

The capybara, which I had never seen so close (could almost touch them) ate a little bit of grass here and there… looked like dogs.
A flock of swams was also around, though they kept their distance. I ended up taking as many pics as I could.
We spent almost 2 hours at the park, very few people passed by.

Completely changing the subject now, one of the required themes was the Operator as defined by Barthes. Which is basically the point of view of that who takes the photoraph, the photographer.
My original idea was to take a photo from lots of photographers taking photos from a certain subject… but ended up not having time to go after this, so I ended up using the oh-so-hated (by several professional photographers) post in front of the mirror photo.
Used my current camera (Canon XSi) mounted on a generic tripod, an old Yashica from my father, an old lens for it, and another lens that was bought for an old camcorder.

Finally, I used my hobby for the two last photos needed for the essay.
The theme was photos that had a “Punctum”, as defined by Barthes.
I know that these photos don’t exactly reflect the concept, since it should be something more accidental than made on purpose.

But I killed two birds with one stone, and did this figure montage, plus this self portrait thing which I was intending to do for quite a while to include on the “About…” page.

So, I hope you liked those.
The next post will take a little longer, since I have nothing ready quite yet… but I’ll try to keep the posts coming.