Month: September 2016

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Edit your Final  Leading Lines image and turn it into Google Classroom.
   1. Due TODAY.
3. Read and comment on the Tutorial: Framing Your Shots.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/03/double-exposure-photographs-by-florian-imgrund/

After viewing today’s warm up, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

How do you think Imgrund achieved this look? What is the relationship between the subject and the background? What is Imgrund trying to say about the person in the image? What are they comparing the person to? What is the result of bringing these two different images together? How do they make you feel?

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/framing-your-shots-photography-composition-technique

After reading the above tutorial, answer the following questions as comments to this post. MAKE SURE TO CREATE THE COMMENTS IN WORD. THAT WAY YOU WILL HAVE A SPELL CHECK, AND A BACKUP IN CASE YOU LOSE YOUR COMMENT.

1. Why is it good practice to frame your shots?
2. Name at least three example of framing devices, both natural and un-natural.
3. What does framing your shots do for the folks looking at your pictures?

Make sure answers are in complete sentences, using correct grammar and punctuation.

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Get together in your CFGs and critique yesterday’s practice Leading Line photos.
3. Take final photos for   Leading Lines.
   1. Due TOMORROW. Into Google Classroom.

 

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/miniature-calendar/

How is Tanaka able to transform everyday objects into scenes for his miniature people to live in? What happens to the viewers brain and imagination when we look at these photographs? What is he able to do with size and scale in these images? What do you feel when you look at these photos?

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the practice unusual Leading Lines 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 the concept of leading lines? Do the lines lead the viewer from the foreground all the way to the background or do they stop halfway? Is there a payoff waiting for us at the end of the leading lines or are there just lines there? Is the focus correct? Does the image need to be rotated to make sure the horizontal lines are straight?

2. Overall what could be done to improve 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 LEADING LINES SHOT BEFORE THE END OF THE CLASS TOMORROW.

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Strong reviews editing in Lightroom.
3. Turn in your practice photos for  Leading Lines.
   1. Into Google Classroom.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/the-wonderland-book/

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answering the following questions using complete sentences and responding to these by leaving a comment to the comment link above.

What stories do you think Kirsty Mitchell is trying to tell in these photograph? What gives you those ideas? How does MItchell inject narrative into these photographs? How could you inject narrative or story into your own photographs?

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Strong reviews editing in Lightroom
3. Get in your CFGs and Group Critique your Unusual POV shots.
   1. Turn in your group’s thinking into Classroom.
   2. DUE TODAY.
4. Shoot one practice photo for Leading Lines.
   1. Practice Photo is Due TOMORROW.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/benoit-courti/

After viewing the above photos, post the answers to the questions below as a comment to THIS POST.

What does black and white do to these images? What would these look like as color photographs? How many subjects are present in these images? What do we get out of just focusing on one subject? What meaning to you make out of these photos? How do they you feel?