I took photos of my face and body from the back, from the top of my head, side front, side upwards, from the belly, awkwardly close etc. As much as how odd the angles were, the photos turned out to be equally as awkward. I noticed by looking through the photos later, they seemed to be restricted in terms of the distance or radius they were shot within and I realised it was because the camera was only allowed to go to the length of my arm. During the process of media taking I found it difficult to intentionally find an odd angle because how I defined something was shot at an odd angle was by looking at the already taken media item and i looked odd in it. Odd angle = Odd face but as i was taking the photos i couldn’t see how i was being photographed. I couldn’t see the odd face so i wasn’t sure if it was being shot at an odd angle. What’s the standard of odd anyway.

I kept forgetting that the theme odd angles was only being used as a method to notice the next object so i shouldn’t be too caught up with how much the photographs of odd angles portrays or explains odd angles. Nevertheless, by examining these photographs i noticed the lines of my body. The wrinkle lines on my neck, the roundness of my face, lines of hair, the curves of my legs. By avoiding photographing from the obvious angles such as the front or whatever common angle, it allowed me to move my attention away from facial features and proportions bringing out other elements such as the lines of my body.

Always following the common method leads to receiving a common outcome but when we move away from that we tend to receive a different outcome and discover new things that we couldn’t  notice before.

Next object of noticing = Lines