Month: November 2016

Learning Targets:

• I know what photo from my famous photographer I will copy.
• I know how to make a diptych in Photoshop.

1.  Read and respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Strong goes over how to make a Diptych in Photoshop.
3. Turn in slideshows for Famous Photographer Project
   1. Slides were due on Friday – Only 12 of you turned them in.
4. Shoot/Edit for Famous Photographer Photo Challenge.
5. Vote on DEPTH OF FIELD PHOTOS.

Today’s Warm Up:Surreal Photo Manipulations by Caras Ionut

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/surreal-photo-manipulations-by-caras-ionut/

After viewing the photos contained in the above link, answer the following questions using complete sentences? What role does color play in these images? What are the different looks of these photos? How do themes of childhood and youth play into these images? What ideas could you take from these and put into your own work?

Learning Targets:

• I can finish my Famous Photographer Slides
• I know what photo from my famous photographer I will copy.

1.  Read and respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Turn in slideshows for Famous Photographer Project
   1. Slides were due on Friday – Only eight of you turned them in.
3. Shoot/Edit for Famous Photographer Photo Challenge.
4. Vote on DEPTH OF FIELD PHOTOS.

Today’s Warm Up: The Work of Jackson Patterson

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s169/sh/562166a4-8c4b-44fe-8c66-19a25ee70846/18a69bfb797322847e1dc33939a2d908

After viewing the photos above answer the following questions using complete sentences. What is Jackson Patterson’s work all about? What happens when these different pieces come together, what effect is created?What ideas do you get for your own work out of this?

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s169/sh/2a892733-5049-4b7e-ad18-162b5fd625f8/b6b174b3040c3bf900569895dedbf178

After viewing the photos in the above link, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What is happening in these photos? What two different worlds are placed next to each other? How could you do something similar? What other places would this work? Which places would not work and why?

Learning Targets:

• I can finish my Famous Photographer Slides
• I know which photo I am going to copy for next week.

1. Strong will set up today’s Warm Up
2. Turn in slideshows for Famous Photographer Project
   1. Slides are due TODAY.
3. Vote on DEPTH OF FIELD PHOTOS.

Learning Targets:

• I can give feedback on my CFG groups images
• I know which photographer I will do my presentation on

Steps:

1. Strong will set up today’s Warm Up – Everyone Does this please.
2. Get together in your CFGS and critique your period’s Phobia Images.
   1. Critiques are due TODAY.
3. Start Working on the Famous Photographer Project
   1. Slides are due tomorrow.
4. Vote on DEPTH OF FIELD PHOTOS.

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Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the final phobia 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 each photo have a photbia as it’s main subject? Does the image look scary? Did the photographer edit the photo to make it look scary?  How could the photographer get more scary in the image by using Lightroom/photoshop? Does the photo feature a scary looking font?  Is the focus on the part of the image that shows the most amount of texture, or is the image blurry?

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.

CRITIQUE IS DUE TOMORROW

1. Check out the Famous Photographer post. 
2. Choose a photographer from the bottom of the list.
3. Choose a photographer from the middle of the list.
4. Choose a photographer from the top of the list.
5. Which one resonates with you and why?
6. Which photographer makes images that you could copy or emulate?

Post your answers to these questions as a comment to THIS POST.