Flex Your Photographic Muscle
After viewing this video, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
What is the shutter in the camera? What does using a fast shutter speed look like? What does using a slow shutter speed look like? What sorts of effects can you get by using the shutter speed?
What happens to the light when you increase the shutter speed? What happens to the light when you decrease the amount of light? What camera mode should you be in to adjust shutter speed on your camera?
http://digital-photography-school.com/26-unique-special-effects-photos-to-spark-your-creativity/
After viewing the photos above, answer the following questions using complete sentences:
How did the photographers make these images? Which in camera technique was used in the creation of these images? Which one of these do you think you could do for the slow shutter speed photo challenge? What’s preventing you from making images like these?
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/07/stunning-light-calligraphy-by-kaalam/
After viewing the photos above, answer the following questions using complete sentences:
How were these images made? How are these images different from the slow shutter speed images you have seen? How could you incorporate light painting & writing with a subject and not just the lighting effect? Where could you do these light painting images that you wouldn’t have thought of before?
Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the practice Unusual Framing photos you made yesterday.
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 UNUSUAL framing devices? Are we used to seeing objects framed by the frame that is in the photo? Is the frame truly original? 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.
After all critiques are made, go out and improve your images by taking new ones. Each image must be edited in Lightroom/Photohsop.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/enchanting-storybook-gifs-animated-by-sparrows/
After viewing the photos above, answer the following questions using complete sentences
These Gifs are the results of several images placed in a sequence and ran through a program like Photoshop to animate them. What kind of a story do we get out of these images? How is the experience of looking at an animated gif different than the experience of looking at a still photograph? What does movement do to the experience? How does this compare to something you’ve done? How do these make you feel?
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/06/foggy-basque-forests-oskar-zapirain/
After viewing the photos above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
What mood do these photos put you in? What sorts of stories can you imagine happening in these woods? What angles does the photographer use to bring about this mood? What could you add to these photos to make them your
Rommert Boonstra is an all time classic in Strong’s Photography class. What Boonstra does with unusual framing devices is the stuff of legend. Carrots and mash potatoes stand in for a picture frame. there are walls of cheese. Houses built out of dictionaries and Styrofoam. The world as we know it is transformed, and its all done with framing devices.
After viewing the following images, answer the following questions in complete sentences. Don’t tell me the the question, just give me the answer.
What are the unusual framing devices that Boonstra uses to frame his subjects? How does this demonstrate creativity? Is the creativity found in Photoshop or with camera placement?