Flex Your Photographic Muscle
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/landthropologic/
After viewing the images and video above, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Reply with a comment to THIS POST.
What is Johnson able to do solely with things that exist in the natural world? What does this do to your options when you are shooting nature? How might you capture a still image of nature after viewing this series? What influence does seeing this have on your own photography?
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/alexander-semenov-ocean-photography/
After viewing the photos in the above post, answer the following questions using complete sentences. Post the answers as a comment to this post.
How does light play into these photos? Do you get a sense of wonder, a sense of never seeing anything quite like this before? What is it about these photos that make them look so fresh? How do these photos make you feel? Which one is your favorite and why?
Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the practice unusual POV photos you made this week.
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 Tuesday.EVERYONE TURNS IN A COPY OF THEIR GROUPS SUMMARIZED CRITIQUE.
1. Does this photo successfully demonstrate an unusual point of view or camera angle? Or was the image taken from a traditional position? Is there a clear subject in this photo, or is it hard to figure out what the photographer wants you to look at? How could this image’s camera angle be more unusual?
2. Is the subject in focus? Is any part of the image in focus? What could be done to improve the focus for this image.
Each person turn in a copy of their group’s summarized answers to the above questions in google classroom. You might have to copy and create a new document, then paste to turn it in.
AFTER CRITIQUING ALL THE IMAGES IN YOUR GROUP, GO AND USE THE CRITIQUE TO TAKE A BETTER POV SHOT BEFORE THE END OF THE CLASS TOMORROW.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/12/conceptual-kylli-sparre/
After viewing the photos in the above post, answer the following questions using complete sentences. Post the answers as a comment to this post.
How does nature play into these photos? How does shape fit into these photos? What shapes do you see in here? How do these photos make you feel? Which one is your favorite and why?
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/blooms-of-insect-wings-created-by-photographer-seb-janiak/
After viewing the above photos, respond to the following questions using complete sentences. What is the lighting like in these photos? Is the lighting high key or low key? Why did the photographer choose this kind of lighting for this kind of subject? What would these photos look like if they had high key lighting instead of low key?
For this week’s photo challenge assignment, you will take two photos using the concept of point of view. Point of the view is the angle through which we view the subject in a photograph. It can be a normal point of view, from our standing eye level, but this week we want to MESS WITH POINT OF VIEW by getting an unusual angle. By getting an unusual angle, crawling around on the floor, getting on a safe high place, we can view the world in an unusual way and give the viewer this unusual take on reality.
Practice Photos will be due on Wednesday, 9/21 Final Photos will be due on Friday, 9/23
Rubric is below:
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