STRONG PHOTOGRAPHY

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the practice texture 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 texture as it’s main subject? Does the image look like you know what the surface feels like even though it is a 2 dimensional image?  How could the photographer get more texture in the image by using Lightroom? Is the focus on the part of the image that shows the most amount of texture, or is the image blurry?

2.Find out how to add texture to the image using Lightroom. Write down the process in this CFG critique document?

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

Learning Targets:

• I know how to inject contrast into my texture photo.
• I can  give feedback to my classmates about my practice texture photos.
• I know what I need to take a better final photo for texture.

Steps:

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Turn in your practice photo for Texture – DUE TODAY.
3. Get together with your CFGs and Critique your Texture Practice Photos from yesterday.
4. Vote for Slow Shutter Speed Photo Challenge photos.

 

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/new-surreal-portraits-from-oleg-oprisco/

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

How do you think the photographer created these photos? What sorts of moods are created in these images? How does the look of the photo (slightly de-saturated, a hazy effect) affect the mood of these photos?

Learning Targets:

• I know how to have texture in my photography.
• I can turn in a practice photo for texture.

Steps:

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Turn in your practice photo for Texture – DUE TODAY.
3. Get together with your CFGs and Critique the final POV Photos.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/06/a-surreal-photoshoot-on-an-underwater-shipwreck-in-bali/

After viewing the above link, answer the following questions using complete sentences. Also check out the video for how they made this. How did the location of the shoot affect the final shots? How different would it look if the pictures were taken in a studio instead of underwater? What effects did the photographer apply to the photographs? How do these make you feel? What did they use to prevent the camera from getting wet?

Learning Targets:

• I can critique the POV photos from my CFG..
• I see how the work of POW Levi van Velew relates to our Contrast Photo Challenge.

Steps:

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Get together with your CFGs and Critique the final POV Photos.
3. Shoot/Edit for  Photo Challenge, Texture.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/09/bernhard-lang-aerial-italy/

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

What does changing the perspective, or angle of view do to the subject? How does the beach look different from this aerial view? What changes about the way we see our own lives when we see it from way up in the sky? What do you notice about repetition in these photographs? How do these images make you feel about the world?

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Artist/Sculptor, Levi Van Veluw has what many would call a strange canvas, himself. He covers himself in the surfaces he wants to dissapear into.  The surface might be wood, tile, ballpoint pen, or grass and shrubs. He might have a railroad car go around his head. Either way you look at it, Van Veluw’s work deals with our shifting identities we carry as people, as well as touching on themes of the different roles we play, as well as exploring how art can make us dissappear.

After viewing the photos answer the following questions in complete sentences. Compose your answer in Word first, then paste it into the comment field below.

How does Van Veluw use texture in his artwork? Why do you think he does this? What is Veluw trying to say about the world by doing this? How tired does his face feel after a long day of doing this? What does this sort of activity say about taking an idea as far as it can go? Is Veluw a madman, a genius, or both? Does it matter when the results are this breathtaking?

http://www.levivanveluw.nl/

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Texture is the surface quality of an object. We experience texture when we touch objects and feel their roughness, smoothness or patterns. Texture is the artist’s way of mapping these tactile impressions on to the two-dimensional picture. Texture is created by varying the pattern of light and dark areas on an object.

For this photo challenge, you will be graded on how well you show the concept of Texture in your photographs.

For your photo challenge next week, you will turn in TWO PHOTOS that explore the nature of texture in the most creative way possible. You could, cover a friend in tile, even your whole family if you wanted to. Or you could focus on the textures around you. Make the viewer feel like they can reach out and touch your picture.  A PICTURE WHERE TEXTURE IS THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND WHEN SOMEONE LOOKS AT YOUR PHOTOGRAPH.

PRACTICE Photo due Wednesday, 10/27

FINAL Photo due on Friday, 10/29