photoshop portrait

This is Alyssa's Photoshop masterpiece

Reflect upon surveilance session1

Look over your photos and select your 5 favourites, create a file for your 5 best copy or move then to the file.
Reflect on your experiences using the following questions to guide you:

1. Where did you set up your camera first?
2. Why did you select the area to survey?
3. How long did you remain in the same area?
4. What sort of images did you capture?
5. Were you satisfied with the results? Why or why not?
6. Describe your favourite image; explain why it is your favourite.
7. How did people react to you?
8. How did you feel while you were taking the photos? Anxious, awkward…

Exposed1:Surveillance

Today you are to go out to take surveillance photos around the school. Find a space that you find interesting either the background is compositionally, structurally compelling, or there is significant action there that may tell a story. (Remember that changing rooms, bathroom and the staff room are off limits). Set up your camera (like Lorca Di Corcia) and wait for something to enter the frame. stay in the same place for 10-15 mins then change your position and try somewhere else. Take 25+ frames and when you feel like you have something interesting, come into the class and download them.

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera

Henri Cartier Bresson
Last summer I visited the Tate Modern Gallery in London. I saw an exhibition that inspired this project. Since its invention, the camera has been used to make images secretly to satisfy the desire to see what is hidden. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera examines photography's role in voyeuristic looking from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. It includes pictures taken by professional photographers and artists, but also images made without our knowledge on a daily basis through the proliferation of CCTV.

Check out the web site: Tate Modern
and also see: The Tate Modern Channel
Make sure you view Philip Lorca-DiCorcia and Laurie Long.

In class we will explore various Photographers who have explored the world candidly as voyeurs and photojournalists to document life as it happens without prejudice.


Robert Frank

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Laurie Long


Weegee

Nan Goldin

Photoshop Portrait

We are going to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to edit and alter your portrait. You are going to copy parts of other portraits onto your face to make a new combined face. To do this, you will learn basic tools: rectangular marquee, lassoo, quick mask, how to cut & paste, move tool, dodge and burn, image adjustments.

First open the photograph taken of you in Adobe Photoshop, then open another image from your group that you want to blend parts onto your photo.

We will then use the recangular marque tool to select an area of your photo to copy. Then selcet the photo of you and Edit>Paste. Use the move tool to adjust the size and move into place.

Interview & Portrait

In class we are going to get into groups of two and interview your classmate (hopefully some one new to you). You are to ask them several questions about them selves:

1. Name & major?
2. What is your favourite food?
3. What is your best memory of last summer?
4. Worst memory of the summer?

Then take a digital portrait of your partner and download it onto the network into the class folder. Photo 9_10>Faces. We will be sharing your interview and your photo with the class.

Welcome September 2010

Welcome to the Photography 9/10 blog. This blog will be updated each week to keep students up to date of classroom activities, events, instructions, and assignments. Check it regularly.