Masters of Photo 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 and technique...

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...

• 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.

Friday 3-6

Today you have the period to edit your abstract and black and white images. You will need to turn in both projects at the end of the period.

TURN IN: All in one folder named YOUR NAME!

• abstract contact sheet 42+ images (7x7)
• favorite abstract pic as a .jpg file
• contact sheet of 24+ abstracts in B&W (4x6 and not the same as on the previous CS)
• favorite edited B&W image as .jpg file

All into the CLASSES folder on the STAFF server...

Some B&W examples:

http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/grayscale.html

http://www.danheller.com/bw-artsie.html

Abstracts in B&W too...

If abstracts are making the ordinary extraordinary, converting them to black and white can take that one step further, as you are no longer just looking for pattern, color, line, shape etc. But now have the added task of searching for black to white CONTRAST.

***Your task is to shoot 24 more abstract images with a focus on contrast and shadow. Places to shoot: a cemetary, a street with very old brick buildings or houses, a junkyard, a used car lot, a basement, or a dense forest.

Friday we will learn 4 techniques for turning images to black and white.

Both Abstracts and B&W images will be due on Friday. You will turn in:

* a contact sheet of 42 abstract images (good, diverse, unique, interesting)
*one amazing abstract to print
*a contact sheet with 24 abstracts in B&W (focused on contrast)
*one B&W abstract image to print

ABSTRACT PHOTOS!

Definition: Abstract Art is defined as: any art in which real objects in nature are represented in a way that wholly or partially neglects their true appearance and expresses it in a form of sometimes unrecognizable patterns of lines, colors and shapes.


here are some links to online galleries:

http://images.google.com/images?q=abstract+pictures&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1

http://www.earth-photography.com/Miscellaneous/Abstract

http://photo.net/bboard/pc2?topic_id=1481&category=Abstract

http://www.123rf.com/stock-photo/abstract.html

a gallery of recognizable but interesting abstracts:
http://www.shutterpoint.com/Photos-BrowseCat.cfm?cat_id=33

abstracts from Cambodia:
http://www.totku.com/

abstracts in nature:
http://www.markraymondmason.com/galleries.php

Landscape Adjustments

Due Wednesday: Six Landscapes adjusted in Photoshop on a contact sheet called "Your Name Landscapes Adjusted", also include the 6 images in their original state, unedited in photoshop. Please make sure this is a jpeg Contact Sheet. Focus on colors, brightness/contrast, photo filters, clone stamping, sharpening, cropping, and exposure etc. Also, send in your best picture as a jpeg file called "Your Name Landscape Print". Please use the naming convention. Any pictures not turned in with the naming convention will be trashed.