Photo assignment: shooting an egg

…We've talked a lot in this series about…trying to find subject matter, trying to find…things that'll open your eyes back up and maybe get you shooting in a different way.…This week on the Practicing Photographer it's going to be easy.…We're not sending you out to find…some obscure lighting situation or something like that.…All you got to do is go to your refrigerator and get an egg.…Because we want a round shape.…What I want you to do this week is an assignment around shooting an egg.…I'm here at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute…right now, working with a photographer named Troy…Word who has just given a very interesting…assignment to our group of very talented teenage photographers.…

He's asked them go shoot an egg.…Preferably with the idea of getting an…emotion from it, without modifying the egg.…This is the assignment that I want you to do.…Now this may sound strange, but how do you get emotion out of…an egg without drawing a frown on it, or a happy face, or something…like that?…You do it through lighting, and camera angle.…