Social Media Photography

When considering what to take pictures of for my social media photography assignment, I thought about what I value at Northeastern and in Boston history. I’m very interested in sports journalism and sports in general, and that definitely had an influence on the subjects I chose and the photos I took. I’m very interested in soccer and play it casually whenever I can, so the Carter Field bubble was very interesting to me, in addition to being a very photogenic subject. The buildings in the background, although they didn’t make the picture because of the angle I chose, paint a beautiful city backdrop behind the giant white structure covering the field. However, I went to the field at sunset and the rosy glow of the sky behind the bubble was too beautiful not to make the picture, and I added the soccer ball in the foreground for a nice touch. The picture of the inside was just taken through the window of the door in a hurry, but I felt another image of the outside would look too similar to the first.

For the Boston history pictures, I decided to target a nearby attraction, and one of my personal favorite places in Boston, Fenway Park. I had planned on taking pictures of the pennants that usually adorn the outside wall but they were not up. They would have created a nice diagonal line into the center of the image, but I found this instead with the line of retired numbers on the outside of the park. For my second image, I looked to a group of statues erected outside one of the gates to commemorate Red Sox greats from over the years. Eventually settling on a heartwarming statue of the legendary Ted Williams placing his hat on a young fan’s head, I took a picture from almost the perspective of the child

Finally, I had to take pictures of anything I thought was newsworthy, and I chose the Christian Science Plaza, not because I thought it was particularly newsworthy, but because I had already taken a really nice picture of one of the light fixtures there a few nights before and I wanted to be able to use that one for the assignment. It was a shot from the ground up, and there were a lot of converging diagonal lines as well as some symmetry so I liked the way it came out. For the others I just tried to find good angles to take pictures of the building itself, and the shots came out decent, if not as great as the one of the lights.