Photography Breadth

Breadth After The Social Media & Culture and Character Transformation

SuperHero

Due: April 18th

Steps:

1. Get out a piece of paper and a pen or pencil.
2. Open the slideshow using the link below.
3. Read through the entire slideshow.
4. Go back to the Journal section and write your responses on your sheet of paper.
5. Turn paper into sub.
6. Start your artwork.

Slideshow

One of the following needs to be turned in March 7th/8th and one gets turned in March 22nd/23rd.

PHONES, SOCIAL MEDIA & CULTURE

Antoine Geiger has captured how our obsession with technology prevents us from being aware of our surroundings.  Create a series that illustrates your view on phones (or technology) and society.

Geiger's series

Photo by Antoine Geiger

TRANSFORM YOURSELF INTO A CHARACTER.

I highly recommend you read about Amanda Chapman's 31 days of Halloween. It is a very touching story with beautiful photographs.

Amanda's photos

Amanda Chapman's self-portrait of sadness.

2nd Semester

HENRIK BONNEVIER STYLE STILL LIFE
Due March 1st

HENRIKBONNEVIER IN HIS OWN WORDS:

I’m a 38-year-old photographer who has made a living from taking pictures for the past 18 years of my life. I mostly shoot nature/adventure pictures, still lifes and pictures for advertising purposes. Furthermore, I love fly fishing. As a commercial photographer, I’ve taken pictures for clients such as Telia, Delicato, Volvo, H&M, Ikea, Nokia, Saab, Sony Ericsson, Listerine, Canon, Heinz, Rembrandt, Samsung and McDonalds. The majority of my nature and adventure pictures have been snapped during my travels. I take pictures all the time.

STEP 1:

Look at Bonnevier's work here. Make a list of common themes Bonnevier uses when he creates his still life photographs.

STEP 2:

Collect all the materials you will need to shoot your still life photographs. You can use the mirrored plexi glass in the storage room. You can make object, paint found objects, purchase material and use colored lighting for this project. You must have:

limited color scheme (2-3 colors maximum) even lighting

20 plus objects

STEP 3:

Work in teams to photograph your work.

STEP 4:

Edit your photographs in photoshop and post your favorites to your blog.

PAST STUDENT EXAMPLE:

Created by Tia McIntosh

Blurange by Lillian Nguyen

For 1st Semester Final Grades:

Select 3-4 from the follow to complete. Remember that Breadth means VARIETY. You need to have a variety of subject matter, skills demonstrated, compositions, messages, etc...

1. USING ONLY YOUR OWN PHOTOGRAPHS create a mashup inspired by the work on this page: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/new-stephen-mcmennamy
2. DOUBLE EXPOSURE:
   • Go to the following site and read the double exposure description at the top of the page and look at the portrait created with double exposure.
   • Create your own double exposure photograph using photoshop. http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/12/30/13-awesome-photography-projects-for-2013/2/ 
   • ONLY USE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS 
3. AFTER DARK:
   

   • Shoot a series outside after dark.
   • Experiment with holding the camera and using a tripod.
   • Photograph a variety of subjects.
   • Load your best 10 images to the blog.
4. FROM THE HIP:

   • Go on three walks on different days.
   • Shoot a minimum of 30 photographs on each walk holding the camera at your hip.
   • Select your best 5 shots and load them to the blog.
   • Convert your best 5 to gray scale and load them to the blog (you will have 10 images total on the blog)
5. PHOTOGRAPHY & TEXT

   

   
   

   Ian Anaya was in AP Studio Art 2D his senior year at AHS.  For his concentration he took walks and photographed the scenery. Each month he would chose one photograph and then use photoshop and illustrator to create a piece of art.  His goal was to create an image for every month.

   
   

   For this project you are going to photograph scenes that interest or inspire you.  Once you have a photograph you love you will edit it in photoshop.  Find a word that describes the photograph for you.  Avoid common, overused words like beauty, stunning, sad.  Your chosen word should provoke thought. Using illustrator type the word and the definition.  Create a graphic and then incorporate the word, definition and graphic into your piece.

   
   

   Other pieces by Ian:

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
6. MASQUERADE

   

   WHAT: For this project you will be looking at the collaboration of cartoonist Saul Steinberg and photographer Inge Morath.  You will make two pieces. In the first piece you will be finding a political cartoon that "speaks" to you.  You will then recreate the scene in the cartoon.  You will create a paper bag face in the style of the cartoon face for your model/models to wear. In your second piece you will tackle an issue or conflict teenagers experience.  You will create your own "bag expression" and your own scene. Try to depict an issue or situation you feel connected to.
   CRITERIA:
   

   • 1st piece must be based off political cartoon.
   • 2nd piece must be based off a teenage "trial"
   • Color or black and white.
   • Bags should be colored using paint, charcoal and/or pastels.
   • Use correct studio lighting techniques

   
   EXAMPLES FROM THE MORATH AND STEINBERG COLLABORATION:
   

   

   
   

   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   

   
   

   

   Past Student Examples:
   
   

   

   teenage issue or conflict

   

   political cartoon selected

   
   

   

   political cartoon
   

   
   

   
   

7. CLOWNS: IF YOU WERE ONE...
1. Select a place and pose for a self-portrait.  Think about angles, rule of thirds, contrast, the meaning of the environment. 
2. Research briefly the history of clowns.  How would you present as a clown
3. Rephotograph the self-portrait but in your clown costume.



Photographs by Arthur Drooker

The above can be found in the following article:


 Conventional Wisdom: World Clown Association
An inside look at the wonky world through photographer Arthur Drooker's lens


http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/conventional-wisdom-world-clown-association-convention.php

creative STUDIO PORTRAITS:

due: Progress Report Review (21st/22nd Nov)

You put WHAT on your model's face?! 

ASSIGNMENT GUIDELINES:

Plan a portrait session in the studio with an unusual prop.

• Think about what you want to communicate with your photograph.  Do you want it to be beautiful, whimsical, humorous, insightful, melancholy... 

Be creative and courteous. Clean up the studio when you are done.

Utilize CORRECT lighting and USE a TRIPOD.

There isn't a specific amount of photographs due.  Shoot a lot and turn in your best.

Selective Focus

due: October 17th & 18th BOP (beginning of period)

Selective focus is achieved by using a large lens aperture which creates a shallow depth-of-field. Selective focus draws the viewer's eye to a point of interest by blurring the background. This technique is very useful in portrait and close-up photographs. 

1. Choose 5 objects, people, or animals to photograph.
2. Shoot at least 15 different photos of each. You will have 75 photographs total.
3. Shoot each item using the various f-stop and iso settings on your camera. Your goals are to: explore the results of different settings and to create intentional areas of focus and "blur."
4. Be conscious of your composition. I want you to identify which photographs are using rule of thirds and whether the photographs have informal or formal balance.
5. Do not edit the photos on the computer
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   Load your best 5 photographs onto your blog.
   You will have one on one critiques for all 75 photographs with Mr. Lacock and Ms. Ottum.
   
   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   

   

STUDIO SERIES

For this project you are going to create a series of studio pieces based on the following themes.
FLOWERS, PRODUCE, ART SUPPLIES, INK

Past Studio Projects:
ART SUPPLIES

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