Friday, April 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Photo 1 close-up + framing
New assignment due
Monday February 27th [A days]
Tuesday February 28th [B days]
CLOSE UP - take 10 photos
(fill the frame with your subject)
make sure your subject takes up 90% of the frame!
make sure your subject takes up 90% of the frame!
CLOSE UP - take 10 photos
(fill the frame with your subject)
EXTRA CREDIT - FOUR PHOTOS THAT ARE GOOD EXAMPLES OF PATTER/REPETITION.
Photo 2 portrait assignment
Portrait Photography
Objective: Exploring lighting and compositions using yourself and toerh people as your subjects. To learn how to find and create the most effective lighting situations for portrait photography. To think and compose creatively, using the compositional elements we have discussed.
Project: You will shoot at least 30 exposures. Focus half of your images on self-portraits and the other half on portraits of other people. [friends/family/strangers] For the self-portraits, say something unique about yourself. Turn yourself into a fictional character. Show yourself as you think you are, as you wish to be, as you think others see you, or simply make yourself a character in an interesting image. Whatever you do, make the image more interesting than a simple mug shot! Portraits do not need to be only pitures of a person's face.
Be experimental: Try different camera angles, poses, background, shutter speed, and spertures. Seek out interesting backgrounds and avoid backgrounds which distract from your subject. Try getting close with the camera. Then move back for distance shots. Bracket [take 3 or 4 shots at varying exposures of anything you think might make a strong image]. Try out the different lighting techniques learned in class:
Side lighting [45 degrees]
Side lighting [90 degrees]
Front lighting
Backlighting [silhouette]
Turn in:
5 enhanced 8x10 images [1 must be a self portrait]
3 portraits must be retouched
Contact sheet [30 images]
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Photo 1 Rule of Thirds Assignment
In class you learned about SIMPLICITY and RULE OF THIRDS.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
*Take 10 verticals and 10 horizontal photos [20 total] using simplicity and the rule of thirds.
* Make sure you pick a subject. If you don't know what and why you're taking a picture, your viewer won't know either!
* Don't just look at your subject. Make sure your background is simple and nice. Don't take a photo of your sister with your couch, the kitchen, your dog, your PS3, ect in the background. Eliminate everything unimportant in your photo so you can focus on your subject.
* Set your camera up so your rule of thirds grid shows on your LCD screen. Make sure to put as many things as possible, especially your subject, on the lines and intersections of your grid. Remember where the lines cross are the best places to put your main subject. This is were your eye is led to first, so make sure there is something interesting to look at.
* I gave you all a handout. Make sure you keep it. You will not get another one!
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
*Take 10 verticals and 10 horizontal photos [20 total] using simplicity and the rule of thirds.
* Make sure you pick a subject. If you don't know what and why you're taking a picture, your viewer won't know either!
* Don't just look at your subject. Make sure your background is simple and nice. Don't take a photo of your sister with your couch, the kitchen, your dog, your PS3, ect in the background. Eliminate everything unimportant in your photo so you can focus on your subject.
* Set your camera up so your rule of thirds grid shows on your LCD screen. Make sure to put as many things as possible, especially your subject, on the lines and intersections of your grid. Remember where the lines cross are the best places to put your main subject. This is were your eye is led to first, so make sure there is something interesting to look at.
* I gave you all a handout. Make sure you keep it. You will not get another one!
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Photo 2 Hockney collage
In class you learned about the famous photographer Hockney and how he created the panomosaic photo style. Your assignment is to create your own photomosaic.
MUST HAVE:
* at LEAST 25 photos [the more photos you have the better your panomosaic will look]
* pick your subject and shoot from all angles, close up, and far away
* you may choose to create a block mosaic or layer your photos on top of each other.
* This is due on February 6th and 7th [depending on if you have this class A or B day.]
SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:
Midterms in Wednesday February 8th. YOU CANNOT TURN THIS ASSIGNMENT IN EVER AFTER 8:15 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING. This gives you 2-3 days to turn this assignment in. Make sure it happens!
MUST HAVE:
* at LEAST 25 photos [the more photos you have the better your panomosaic will look]
* pick your subject and shoot from all angles, close up, and far away
* you may choose to create a block mosaic or layer your photos on top of each other.
* This is due on February 6th and 7th [depending on if you have this class A or B day.]
SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER:
Midterms in Wednesday February 8th. YOU CANNOT TURN THIS ASSIGNMENT IN EVER AFTER 8:15 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING. This gives you 2-3 days to turn this assignment in. Make sure it happens!
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
January 26th Substitute Lesson
Ok class I'm sorry that I am gone once again. Turns out January is one crazy month. [be very respectful and kind you your sub!] I have the entire assignment listed for you below. Read carefully. I'll be checking it off on Monday along with YOUR SCAVENGER HUNT ASSIGNMENT! [hint hint don't forget]
The first part of class you will be using your sketching talents around the building. We are going to start talking about composition. I want you to get a head start on it. Your assignment is to go around the school, inside our out, [BUT STAY ON CAMPUS] and make a hand camera with your hands. You'll look through your awesome fake camera and find a good compositon, something that you think looks nice. After you find that composition you will need to sketch that composition in your binders [if you don't have your binders yet use your notebooks] You need 10 different compositional sketches. They need to look decent. I should be able to tell what everything is so do not scribble! You will have about 30-45 minutes to go around the school and sketch. You MAY NOT go into any classrooms and you must be quiet in the halls and respectful to other classes by not being loud and annoying. You may sketch people, places, or objects, whatever you think makes a good composition. Examples below.....
The first part of class you will be using your sketching talents around the building. We are going to start talking about composition. I want you to get a head start on it. Your assignment is to go around the school, inside our out, [BUT STAY ON CAMPUS] and make a hand camera with your hands. You'll look through your awesome fake camera and find a good compositon, something that you think looks nice. After you find that composition you will need to sketch that composition in your binders [if you don't have your binders yet use your notebooks] You need 10 different compositional sketches. They need to look decent. I should be able to tell what everything is so do not scribble! You will have about 30-45 minutes to go around the school and sketch. You MAY NOT go into any classrooms and you must be quiet in the halls and respectful to other classes by not being loud and annoying. You may sketch people, places, or objects, whatever you think makes a good composition. Examples below.....
Make a box out of your fingers.
Move your hands around until you find something with a good composition. SOMETHING THAT LOOKS GOOD AND INTERESTING! Then you STOP AND SKETCH. Do this 10 times. You should have 4 sketches per page. Make them take up the entire space. No little 1 inch sketches.
If you finish early come back to class and get started on some photoshop tutorials. I know you are probably sick of those "getting started" videos, but you need to be able to edit your images without using those videos. Next class I will make you edit an image using the techniques from one of these videos and I expect you to be able to do it without any help. If you feel like you remember everything then edit them all without help. Then get the video out if you need help. You should be able to completely edit all the pictures without help. Or at least that is the ending goal.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Assignment:
1. Think about what you are taking a picture of. Set up your photo. Think about composition.
2. 30 NEW pictures
3. DO NOT take pictures of another picture or drawing.
Set the date on your camera but take the date off your pictures.
No previous taken pictures are acceptable. Take all pictures in color.
Required Pictures:
1. Feet and/or shoes- 2 different photos
2. Hands and/or paws- 2 different photos
3. Something about you. [what you like, hobbies, ect.]- 2 different pictures
4. Water [one large like a pond or a stream]- 3 pictures
5. Stairs or staircase- 2 different pictures
6. Family- 2 pictures
7. Friends- 2 pictures
8. Landscapes- [3 different scenes] – 3 pictures
9. Flower or plant [close up]- 3 photos
10. Horse, cow, sheep, or goat- 2 different pictures
11. Inside a building or school- 3 different pictures
12. Glass jar- 1 picture
13. Food- 2 pictures
Be creative! Choose different light [time of day] and angles. Show me what you can do!
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