Flex Your Photographic Muscle
Learning Targets:
“They loved it, It was like a giant game of dress-up for them. … They also knew we were making a scary picture — and loved the idea of scaring the audience as much as I did.”
After viewing the photos contained in the link above answer the following using complete sentences.
What angles did the photographer use to create a sense of nightmare? What sorts of colors were used? What sorts of lighting techniques to make the image look horrific? Which of these ideas could you use for the nightmare photo challenge?
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/02/07/sleep-paralysis-sufferer-depicts-his-nightmares-in-photos/
After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
Why are these photographs so important to the photographer? What does the photographer gain from making these photographs? Describe the process of idea to image creation? How could you turn one of your nightmares into a photograph?
Learning Targets:
Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the multi image photos you made last week. All of the work that was turned in last week is up now on the website.
Step 2: Each person should be able to answer these questions about each photo in your CFG. Write down the group’s thinking on each of these questions for each of your photos. Post the answers in a google doc and turn it into Google Classroom. Critiques are due on Wednesday.
1. How did the photographer embed metaphor into these photographs? What is the photographer trying to say with their metaphor? How well does the quote compliment what is done with the self portrait and the metaphor image? What text effects were used, and do they fit in to the look of the rest of the image? What sort of moods are created? What is the photographer trying to say with these photos?
2. Overall, what could be done to make these photos stronger?
Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions
Learning Targets:
For this week’s photo challenge, you will create cloned images of the same person or pet. Don’t do objects as that’s too easy to duplicate naturally.
What makes this possible is taking multiple images at the same location. YOU WILL NEED A TRIPOD FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT. Once you have your images, you stack them in Photoshop using Layer/Duplicate Layer. Then you use layer masks to create the cloned effect.
MAKE SURE TO LEAVE PLENTY OF ROOM BETWEEN CLONES. IF THEY DO OVERLAP IT BECOMES VERY TRICKY TO FIX.
ONE PRACTICE IMAGE DUE ON 12/7
FINAL IMAGE DUE ON 12/9
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RObqFFNiDJY&w=640&h=360]
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/18/clone-photography-daisuke-takakura/
After viewing the photos contained in the above link, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
What themes do you notice running through Takakura’s work? What are they trying to say in these images? What ideas do you get for your own cloned photography?
Learning Targets:
After the viewing the photos above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
How did the photographer make these images? What have you seen that is similar to this? What’s the difference that Yang makes in these photos? How could you apply their technique to yours?