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Today’s Tutorial: Lines in Photography

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http://digital-photography-school.com/working-the-lines-in-your-photography

http://digital-photography-school.com/using-horizontal-lines-in-photography

http://digital-photography-school.com/using-vertical-lines-in-photography

http://digital-photography-school.com/using-diagonal-lines-in-photography

Lines are a great way to engage the viewer. Read about how to use them above

After reading this post, answer the following questions as comments to this post. Prepare your paragraph length statement in Word. Use complete sentences, and proper grammar and punctuation.

What is the effect of successfully using lines on your photographs?

What does the use of leading lines do for the viewer of this image?

What do Diagonal lines do to your photographs? What about Vertical lines? What about Horizontal lines?

What are some examples of lines that could be found around school?

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TODAY’S WARM UP: ANIMATED LAND ART EXPERIMENTS BY PAUL JOHNSON

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?

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TODAY’S WARM UP:ALEXANDER SEMENOV OCEAN 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?

 

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Unusual POV Practice Photo Critique

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.

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Today’s Warm Up: Blooms of Insect Wings Created by Photographer Seb Janiak

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?