PORTFOLIO PRESENTATION

Your portfolio needs to be presentable. It can be mounted on poster board, framed, in a binder or album, matted, on a scroll, or some form of modern art sculpture, regardless of how, you need to make an effort to create a professional and presentable portfolio of images
centered around your topic/theme. Starting Monday January 26th we will be presenting these to the class. Your presentation needs to be >3 minutes.

• Describe your topic/theme
• Explain each image and its relation
• what was challenging
• what is most successful
• Q&A
  

PORTFOLIO IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS

Below each picture you need to describe the image, composition elements used, relation to topic/theme, camera/photoshop tools used etc.

3+ sentences per image.

PORTFOLIO FINAL REFLECTION PAPER

Please include a page or more reflection with your portfolio answering the following questions & prompts describing what you learned during your project and semester. (may be double spaced)

• What did you learn about your subject, Photoshop, and photography in general?
• What was easy and difficult about your project?
• What would you do differently if you did it again?
• Finally, how far along (be specific) do you think you have come as a photographer this semester?

9 image Photo Essay of Alaska

Here is a series of images from a trip to Alaska.

YOUR BEST PITCURE YET!

Please submit your best picture of the term today to the classes folder. This can be from any assignment or from outside of class. The goal is to create a collection of stellar student images to display. Please drop these at the start of the period.

HDR Due

Please turn in your 7 HDR images today. One full size and 6 on a contact sheet. You can not save HDRs as a jpeg, so a .osd file will be fine.

Portfolio Example

PORTFOLIO TIMELINE -- January

6/7: Students will narrow down topic ideas, answer treatment questions and email to Mr. Story and parents.

8/9: All day shooting day.

12th: First 24 Picture contact sheet due. Manipulation work

13/14: All period shooting day.

15/16: 2nd contact sheet due. Manipulation work. Printing.

20/21: Last all period shooting day.

22/23: Final manipulation Day.Printing.

26th: Projects Due

Portfolio Planning

Please list 3 potential topic ideas at our classroom website's discussion section here

Additionally, please find 3 images you feel are amazing compositionally and related to your topic. Copy and paste these images into the discussion section as well and tell me why you selected each and how they relate to your chosen topic. These should be the BEST images you find, not the first.

search these sites for good examples:

http://www.gettyimages.com/Creative/CreativeHome.aspx

http://www.outdoor-photos.com/

http://pro.corbis.com/

http://www.fotosearch.com/

Portfolio Treatment

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What is your theme for your final project?Example: My theme project is Old America.

2. Why did you choose this as your theme? Be specific. 1-2 sentences

3. What type of locations will you choose to shoot your pictures? Why? Keep in mind that you will need to leave campus and most likely leave Shoreline.

4. What type of pictures do you hope to take? Action, portrait, landscape etc? A good photo essay will have a variety.

5. What kind of composition will you focus on in your pictures? You will need at least five composition elements (not counting rule-of-thirds). Yes, I want to know what you are attempting before you shoot.

5a. How will your pictures convey emotion?

6. Will you need class time to shoot? why or why not?

7. If you don't have a car, how will you make sure you get to your locations? Can your parents help? How about public transit?

8. This project should showcase everything you have learned in Digital Photography. How will you ensure this happens?

9. Is there anything you are unclear about in terms of composition or shot styles and angles etc. This is the time to ask.

10. What type of camera or Photoshop experimentation will you try?

Please copy these questions to your email. Answer these questions in detail and send the treatment to my email account (brian.story@shorelineschools.org). Please CC at least one of your parents or guardians on the email so they know they extent of this project. They may need to help with transportation etc. Please include this sentence:

The following Q&A are information regarding ________ (your name)'s final project portfolio for Mr. Story's digital photography class. The next 3+ weeks will be dedicated to this and it is worth 25% of my total grade in this class.

Please write Photo and your period number in the subject.

FINAL PORTFOLIO!!!!

Final Portfolio Project
Digital Photography
Mr. Story

Assignment Requirements:

• First pick a general theme, topic or technique. For example, you might pick America, Democracy, Responsibility, etc. You will shoot photographs centered on this central theme. This may include camera experimentation like shutter speeds or photomerges.

• Use what you've learned about photographic composition, lighting, color, lines, texture and use your camera to make a statement. Each individual photo will be graded accordingly. (Review composition elements if necessary).

• Your photographs should make both a visual and emotional/political/critical/intellectual statement. Your photo essay should contain at least 9 photographs. Below each picture you will also describe the image and composition elements used on each photo.

• Your photo essay should be something unique, new, and your own view of your selected theme.

A one-page reflection is also required. In this paper you need describe what you learned during your project. What did you learn about your subject, Photoshop, and photography in general. What was easy and difficult about your project? What would you do differently if you did it again? Finally, how far along do you think you have come as a photographer this semester?


• You can shoot B & W, Color, or both. It’s your artistic choice.

• You may digitally alter your photos as necessary in Photoshop.


• Your pictures should be printed out either 3*5 or 4*6, two to three pictures per page with the exception of one photo that will be printed at 8.5 *11.

• Projects should be turned in on poster board with the written reflection attached.

• You will also be dropping this assignment in my drop box so that we may view each project in front of the class.


*** Every image in your portfolio should be an example of the VERY best you can shoot. All images must be new and shot specifically for this assignment. Each image should be able to stand alone as an impressive work of photographic art.