Due today

your second contact sheet of 15 more edited images (from either MOP or "Beauty is...").

remember you will need 24 images for each by next Tuesday, Nov 3.

Tattoo

Today, your task is to select your BEST pics from the year for Tattoo Magazine. Remember Tattoo is published in B&W, so convert your image first using image > adjustment > B&W, play with the color sliders to assure a good mix of tones. When you have your image selected and converted please submit it to:

www.sc-tattoo.com (preferred)
OR tattoo.magazine@gmail.com.

There is no limit to the number of submissions per student, submit as many images as you like.

plan your shooting for Tuesday 10-27

Tuesday 10-27 will be an all day shooting day for both the Masters of Photography assignment as well as the Reflections ("Beauty is...") assignment. As such, come with a plan of what to photograph, can you bring in objects? Should you make a plan to go and shoot? Have a parent drive you? Consult the bus schedule? Bring your bicycle and ride to a great location? Invite a friend(s) in to take a portrait? Everyone has a different topic for the MOP and everyone has a different idea of "Beauty is..." so come with a plan to shoot YOURS. Everyone should be shooting on Tuesday.

MAKE A PLAN!

Timeline

We will have 2 weeks for these 3 assignments: MOP written, shooting, & Reflections "Beauty Is..."

Tuesday 10/20: work day -- research & writing
Thursday 10/22: work day -- shooting
Monday 10/26: editing, contact sheet of 15 images due
Tuesday 10/27: work day
Thursday 10/29: work day
Monday 11/2: EVERYTHING IS DUE

MOP

• 1pg written
• Full size image of yours and one of your photog's
• contact sheet with 20+ images

Reflections:

• one+ full size image for "Beauty is..."
• contact sheet with 24 beauty pics
  

MOP Examples:

Eadweard Muybridge:

His Pic:

Student Example:

Guy Bourdin:

His pic:

Students pic:

MOP Shooting Assignment

Once you have selected the photographer of your choice from the list, please determine an image(s) or technique of theirs you would like to try and emulate. Your task is to mimic their photographic style and aesthetic principles with your own photograph. Imitation is the best form of flattery, and this is your task.

Example:

Herman Leonard: known for photographing jazz legends both in portraits and in jazz clubs. Images were black and white with stark contrast and vivid lighting. To mimic his style you could shoot images of an indie band at a show with similar conditions (intense lighting, black and white, high contrast, etc.)

You will be printing out one image of your photographer and one of your own creation in line with their style, subject matter and technique...

MOP written assignment

Masters of Photo Written Assignment

In no LESS than one page (double spaces 12pt font) please explain:

• Who you selected and who they are (i.e. when, where, what etc)

• Describe their photography (what is unique about her/his style and technique), what do the photograph, how, why?

• Explain how he/she (or something they did, used, invented or created) has impacted or changed the world of photography.

• Why did you choose this photographer? What do you like about their work/style?

PTSA Reflections

In addition to the MOP assignment below we will be shooting images for the PTSA reflections contest which are due Nov 6th.

The 2009-2010 Reflections theme is “Beauty Is...” which can be interpreted in your own unique way. Decide what the phrase means to you and how you can explain, depict or portray in a photographic form what the concept of beauty is. Interpretation of the theme, artistic merit and creativity are the criteria by which each entry is judged. If you are chosen as a finalist for Shorecrest, your artistic work will go on to the Shoreline Council level, then possibly to State and National levels. This is a great way to be recognized for your artistic talents and ability to express a theme in a creative way.

What do you think “Beauty Is...”? Think out of the box, get creative, remember the compositional techniques we have studied and remember for every image you take, try to make it unique, creative, and something you are proud of...

Click here for more information.

Click here for entry form.

MAsters of Photography...

Today we will be selecting a photographer which you would like to study and emulate. Here is a list of potential photographers, but please feel free to branch out and find someone not on the list, the only requirement is that they have impacted the world of photography in some form...

when choosing a photographer consider their images, style, technique, subject matter etc. Find someone that interests you and you will be interested in studying.

• Abbott, Berenice
• Adams, Ansel
• Adams, Robert
• Alvarez Bravo
• Arbus, Diane
• Atget, Eugene
• Bellocq, E.J.
• Blossfeldt, Karl
• Brandt, Bill
• Brassai
• Callahan, Harry
• Cameron, Julia M.
• Coburn, Alvin L.
• Cunningham,Imogen
• DeCarava, Roy
• Doisneau, Robert
• Eggleston, William
• Evans, Walker
• Friedlander, Lee
• Gutmann, John
• Hine, Lewis
• Kertesz, Andre
• Klein, William
• Koudelka, Josef
• Lange, Dorothea
• Lartigue,Jacques H.
• Laughlin,Clarence J.
• Levitt, Helen
• Mapplethorpe,Robert
• Modotti, Tina
• Muybridge,Eadweard
• Nadar, Felix
• O'Sullivan, Timothy
• Outerbridge, Paul
• Porter,Eliot
• Riis, Jacob
• Rodchenko,Alexander
• Salgado,Sebastio
• Sherman, Cindy
• Smith, W. Eugene
• Sommer, Frederick
• Steichen, Edward
• Stieglitz, Alfred
• Strand, Paul
• Talbot,William H. Fox
• Uelsmann, Jerry
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• Weston, Edward
• White, Minor
• Winogrand, Garry
Guy Bourdin
Cartier Bresson
Andreas Gursky
Annie Leibowitz

MORE HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographers

Click here to view some of these photographers images


And here for even more


Make sure you like the images of whomever you select, we will have two assignments around the topic of your MOP.

TURN IN FALL PICS!

You should have a large variety of fall images. Today you will have time to edit these, then turn them in at the end of the period.

To turn in:

• 2 contact sheets (40+ good edited images)
• your best image
• all as .jpeg files to the classes folder on the staff server!
  

Photoshop Editing...

3 different edited versions of the same pic, notice which colors are vivid in each version:





Vivid Color:

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/vivid-glow.html

Enhance Saturation:

http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/The-Best-Technique-to-Enhance-Saturation/33311

More Vivid Colors, that look natural:

http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/Naturally-Vivid-Colors/32530

get creative!

For Thursday

You will need 40+ good interesting, unique, creative, fall themed images. We will be learning some new PS techniques to edit these images.

Fall can be creepy, gloomy, or spirited too...

Take pictures of a haunted house, a creepy costume, an amazing jack-o-lantern, or a foggy pond... There are lots of 'colors' to fall in addition to the changing of the trees. Also, don't forget it is homecoming week, and what says fall more than school spirit, class competitions, and more school spirit? Remember every image should still follow our compositional rules, looks for leading lines, frames within a frame, balance, and ALWAYS think rule of 1/3!!!

Fall into Fall...

It's officially fall, and with that comes some great opportunities to take epic pictures!! Fall colors are amazing, flowers are still in bloom, trees are changing color, harvest moons, pumpkin patches, homecoming week, and soooo much more!

We have leaned MANY compositional techniques for taking great images and you have shot landscapes and abstracts, two very different subject matter, now takes all those skills and interpret the assignment as you may. YOUR TASK: Fall Colors. Capture the intense colors of this season with your camera, in an interesting way.

SCHEDULE:

THURSDAY: shooting
TUESDAY: editing & shooting
THURSDAY: editing
FRIDAY: due date

Abstracts into black and white...

using Image>Adjust>Black & White please convert at least 6 of your abstract images to black and white.

Today you will turn in 35+ abstract images on a contact sheet (6 of which will be black and white) as well as one full size image.

Abstract editing...

selective focus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZ_Pqh63dM

vignette:
http://rockysnapper.blogspot.com/2007/12/creating-vignettes-in-photoshop-cs3.html


Thursday is a work day to shoot/edit. Monday these will be due at the end of the period:
35+ Good Abstracts
1 Fullsize amazing interesting abstract image