TIMELINE FOR PORTFOLIO

May 26/27: Students will narrow down topic ideas, answer treatment questions and email to Mr. Story and parents.

June 1/2: 20* pics due at START of class, then work time (shoot or edit)

June 3/4: Work day

June 7: No School

June 8/9: 2nd contact sheet due. work day. Senior Portfolios due!!! Senior presentations.

June 14/15: Portfolios Due & presentations.

June 16/18: Final Day

Due after Memorial Day weekend

20+ images for your portfolio topic. We will turn in a contact sheet.

MOP to turn in

• 1pg essay
• 2 images (one of yours and one of theirs)

Friday you will present your MOP, tell us a little about them and how you took an image using their style, technique etc.

20 image ideas...

jot them down, how are you going to shoot your subject(s) in 20+ unique, interesting and creative images? Each should be unique and creative!

portfolio questions....

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What is your theme for your final project?Example: My theme project is Seattle Music.

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.

5b. How will your pictures convey emotion, either from your subject or from the viewer of the pictures?

6. How much work will be done at school and how much away from school?

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? What adjustment techniques will you use?

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? HDR? Photomerge pictures? Aperture adjustments?

Please Answer these questions in detail(compete sentences)and send these questions to my staff folder, classes folder

ideas...

Example: topic "music"

• close up image of piano
• shot of street performer (buckets) shot from low
• image of scattered sheet music
• close up of singers mouth & mic
• image of just fingers on frets
• image if musician on stage back-lit
• etc

Portfolio - Photo Essay

Assignment Requirements:

• First pick a general theme. For example, you might pick Macro, Wildlife, Democracy, or Responsibility. You will shoot photographs centered on this central theme. This may include camera experimentation like shutter speeds, HDR, aperture adjustments, or photomerges.

• Use what you've learned about photographic composition, lighting, color, lines, texture and use your camera to make an artistic statement. Each individual photo will be graded accordingly. It is imperative you showcase your ability to shoot many angles of shots with many levels of camera composition (Review composition elements and types of shots 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 composition elements used on each photo, what you did to adjust the picture, the photo settings used, why you picked this picture, and where you took the picture.

• 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, but remember they need to remain as photographs, not modern art pieces.

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

• Projects should be turned in in a presentable fashion (poster board, photo album, framed, etc) with the written reflection attached. Look at examples at the front of the room.

ART EXPO!!!

Turn in your fav pic form this year TODAY!

25 easy points for submitting a pic to the ART Expo, turn one in as a .jpg ASAP.

MOP written

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?

MOP Shooting...

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 and technique...

PM - to turn in...

• 4 amazing PM's saved as .jpg
• 7 PM's on a contact sheet(s)

All into the classes folder. Be sure you have at least one of each type of merge...

MOP

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
• Weegeehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
• 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.

FOR THOSE GOING TO FRANCE...

Your task is to take us on a photographic adventure of your travels. This is a photojournalism assignment. Your task is to "sell" us on French travels.

photojournalism:

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by the qualities of:

• Timeliness — the images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of events.

• Objectivity — the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both content and tone.

• Narrative — the images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a cultural level.

You will need to shoot a variety of images that all have some commonalities (composition, colors, angles, styles, etc so they fit as a group). Your images must include:

• one 5+ image photomerge panoramic
  
• 2 amazing candid images (Candid photography is best described as un-posed and unplanned, immediate and unobtrusive)
• 2 posed portraits with context in the BG (not a snapshot)
  
• 4 landscape or architectural images (setting the scene, where are you?)
• 2 abstract or still life images
  
• a total of 50+ images from your travels for a contact sheet.

merges!!!

You need to be making merges! Amazing and interesting merges, from exciting and unique locations showing unique and creative things. These examples demonstrate what it takes to earn an A or A-. Pics from SC will NOT earn a great grade.

Weekend Homework

Shoot two more merges of your choice (pan or sequence)

• if panoramic make sure you go somewhere interesting and shoot a creative, unique and INTERESTING merge.

• if sequence, find some ACTION, something exciting, epic and frozen in time on your camera.

Editing Merges

For panoramic:

• edit pics BEFORE merging them if colors are varied from one to the next
• remember to try different types of merges (cylindrical, perspective etc)
• once merged flatten the image (layer>flatten) and edit as you see fit

For action sequences:

• each layer should line up (you can move them in PS if the camera moved)
• use your history brush if your selection was not perfect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMzsbB5gqtY

sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OaaPIx4FYA

Photomerge in class shooting...

Today you will have the period to shoot.

BEFORE you shoot you must have edited ONE panoramic and ONE sequence (from last week or the public folder).

TIPS:

• keep the camera steady!!!! steady steady steady...
• remember your overlap (25% on pan, NONE on sequence)
• try and find something interesting, do not just phone it in.
• recall your compositional rules

DUE ON THURSDAY/FRIDAY:

• 3 good merges that work! you may need to shoot 6 or 7 to find 3 different merges that all work out well