STRONG PHOTOGRAPHY

Learning Targets:

• I know what contrast is and how to get it in an image.
• I see how the work of POW Levi van Velew relates to our Contrast Photo Challenge.
• I can turn in my final DOF photos.

Steps:

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Check out this Week’s Photo Challenge, Texture.
3. Check out Photographer of the Week, Levi Van Velew
4. Take and turn in your final Depth of Field photos.
5. Due today.

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

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/11/majestic-black-and-white-studio-portraits-of-goats-and-sheep-by-kevin-horan/

Do you think these images demonstrate low key or high key lighting? What makes you think that? What was the photographer’s approach in creating this photo series? Did they treat the work with seriousness or with humor and or whimsy? What emotions do you get by looking at these photos? What lighting set up do you think was used in the creation of these images?

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the practice Depth of Field Portrait 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 pair of photos have one photo that shows shallow depth of field and one that shows deep depth of field?  Does each pair of images show a person with an object where one is all the way in focus and the other only shows the object in focus Is the focus correct? Is the focus correct?

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 TODAY

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Look over the photos you took yesterday. 
3. Critique each set of photos with your CFG group.
4. Take that criticism and take your final Depth of Field photos.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/08/dreamlike-conceptual-self-portraits-fused-with-dance-by-kylli-sparre/

After viewing the above images, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

How does the photographer use the shape of the human body in these photos? How does the photographer use color in these images? What season do these images reflect? How to these images make you feel?

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Turn in two photos for this week’s photo challenge: Portrait with Depth of Field.
   1. Two practice photos are due TODAY!.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/double-exposure-animals-andreas-lie/

After viewing the photos above, answer the following questions using complete sentences. How do the photos of the animals and the landscapes compliment each other? Why do these photos work so well together? How would these look if they were in black and white?What emotions do you feel when you look at these images

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Get in CFG groups and critique your final shutter speed photos from last week..
3. Shoot for this week’s photo challenge: Portrait with Depth of Field.
   1. Two practice photos are due TOMORROW.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/aerial-london-vincent-laforet/

After viewing the above photos, answer the following questions using complete sentences.What role does distance and size play in these images? How does the photographer integrate ideas of color and identity in these images? What role does focus play in relation to size?

1. Read & Respond to today’s Warm Up
2. Get in CFG groups and critique your final shutter speed photos from last week.
3. Strong goes over Aperture & Depth of Field.
4. Shoot for this week’s photo challenge: Portrait with Depth of Field.