Photo9 Contact Sheet & Filter Print Evaluation

Contact Sheet Evaluation
Good quality negatives, well developed. /2
Negatives are organized in the same direction- not upside down or backward. /2
Good Exposure- not too dark or light. /2
Professional- Paper has been cut to the size of negatives- not wasteful.
No water marks, or scratches. /2
Chosen images are selected. /2
Total /10

Filter Prints Evaluation
Good exposure & contrast- not too dark or light. 1 each print
Image is focused. 1 each print
No technical flaws. 1 each print
Photo is cut to 3.5 x 5. 1 each print
Professionalism: Photo has an even border. 1 each print
Total /5 marks for each print for a total possible /15

9 Contact Sheet

The defining characteristic of a contact print is that the photographic result is made by exposing through the film negative or positive, onto a light sensitive material that is pressed tightly to the film.

In the dark, or under a safe light, an exposed and developed piece of photographic film is placed emulsion side down, against a piece of photographic paper. Light is briefly shone through the negative. Then, the paper is developed into a contact print. The image in the emulsion has been pressed as close as possible to the photosensitive paper. An exposure box device called a contact printer or a printing frame is sometimes used within a light-controlled space called a darkroom. Enlargers can also be used for this process

Contact Sheet Criteria
Series of negatives shows an attempt to explore the same person with different expressions, poses and props (optional). 2 marks each point for a total of 10 possible marks.
1. The contact sheet shows that there is a good variety of expressions and poses within the portrait “formula”.
2. Good exposure in photo taking,
3. The negatives are well developed,
4. Good exposure in the darkroom printing.
5. Negatives organized, no flaws, printing choices selected the photo paper is not ripped or torn.

10s Inside Out Portraits Check List

InsideOut Project Criteria

•  Journal: Collect 5 JR portrait images and reflect on his work. Find 5 portraits and 5 examples of “Breaking the Rules” of composition.
• Scan: Your best negative and save it to the shared folder.
• Vote/Spread the Word: The InSideOut Project will be available to view online at http://lfasinsideout.blogspot.com/ .We are going to select the final mural images based on LFAS votes.
• Model Release: In order for your portrait to be presented on the LFAS wall, you must have model and parent consent.

JR#1: Digital Breaking the Rules Portraits of LFAS Friends
You will take a series of portraits exploring various ways to break the rules of composition and photography.

• Print/Post a contact sheet
• Post one image to your journal (BW scan your best negative).

JR#2: Portraits LFAS Arts Student- Show Your Art
You will take a series of portraits of one person using the specific portrait “formula” that the class created. To individualize your portrait, explore a variety of expressions, positioning, and maybe some props.

• Print a contact sheet
• Print one 5 x 7 image.
• Scan your best negative, save to share file.
• Paste one photo in your Journal.
• Answer the following questions in your Journal: Describe the person in the photo: Who are they? What is their mood? Is their “Art” obvious? If so, what is their art? If not, explain why not? How does this represent LFAS?

Elements of Design

Take 10+ photos of the elements of design. Try to include a subject, the photo still has to be "about" something. Save one to your blog and the other to the "Share" folder called elements.

1. Line
2. Shape
3. Form
4. Texture
5. Colour

10 Portrait Criteria

• The portrait will be in B/W.
• The portrait expressions should be expressive of their art, enthusiastic, fun, and candid.
• Models should be expressive with body language.
• The models can either hold something that relates to their art, or not.
• Models should wear a similar outfit (simple white t-shirt).
• The models should be framed from the waist up.
• The lighting should be even, from the front, minimal shadows.The portraits will be cut out when presented on the wall, but make sure the background is simple when you photograph them.

JR Survey

Hey guys answer the questions on this survey for the InsideOut Protrait project-
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FXLC2LZ

Emphasis/Breaking the Rules Portraits

Both 9s and 10s

1. Take 15-35 photos of your portrait(s) using the different techniques.
2. Download/develop the photos from the portrait session.
3. Use Adobe Bridge to organize your images and set up a contact sheet.
4. Label each photo 9s-Emphasis technique used to draw attention to the subject (leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast and framing). 10s- Breaking Rule technique (tilting frame, cut of heads, strange focal point, creative lighting, "wrong" horizon line, crazy camera angles...)
5. Post the contact sheet to your blog.
6. Then answer a series of questions (see below)
7. Select absolute favourite and save to "InsideOut" file in StudentShared folder.
8. Share image with class (next class).

Photo9
Choose your best image for each emphasis technique (5 total images). Insert the images into your blog and respond to each question:

1. Identify the subject.
2. Identify the emphasis technique used and how it emphasizes the subject.
3. Describe what is in the background.
4. Is the image sucessful? Why or why not?
5. What does it say about the person in the photo?

Photo10
Choose your best image for each emphasis technique (5 total images). Insert the images into word and respond to each question:

1. Identify the subject/positive space?
2. Describe what is in the background/negative space.
3. Identify the rule that has been broken used,
4. Is the image sucessful? Why or why not?
5. What does it say about the person in the photo?

JR Assignment

InsideOut Project
JR's Site
JR on TED talks




Go check out the work of Jr and photos related to his project. Select your favourite and post it to your blog/journal.
Answer the following Questions:

1. Why did you choose this/why do you like it?
2. What sort of message is it communicating?
3. Can the style/format work for the LFAS JR project? Why or why not?
4. What sort of ideas do you have for the JR LFAS project?

Downloading/Organizing Photos

Today we are going to finish downloading the portraits from the previous class. After you have downloaded your portrait to your file, re-name it by the name of the person in the photo and then save the best (one each) to the "SHARE" folder. Make a new folder in your personal space and call it "PHOTO" save all of your Photography class work there. Then we are going to share the portraits with the class. Remember your interview questions:

• Name,
• Major,
• Something you did during the summer,
• Your 1st photo memory.

If you have time, go to the district site and change your password from the default. www.sd35.bc.ca/passwords you will be asked to type in your default password, then create a new password that you will remember; it must be 8+ characters, have lower or UPPER cased letters, 1234numbers, and #$ symbols in it. Good luck!

Portraits & Interviews

Today we are going to start by looking at the course outlines on my class web site.
Then we will finish taking the portraits and interviews from previous day,
Then we are going to sign in to the computers and download the photos into your personal account and then save one photo of each of your group members to the "SHARE" folder on the Network.
We then will share the photos and interviews.

If we have time, I will introduce the JR project more.

Welcome to Photography

Arts Matter at LFAS. This year, you will notice some extra energy around the arts with the Arts Matter lecture series where artists from all across Canada will share experience and ideas and why the "Arts Matter" to them. We are going to start the year with an "Arts Matter" LFAS community project to communicate why the Arts matter to us.

First we are going to take photos of fellow classmates to practice how to communicate why the Arts Matter to them. And then we are going to go further to explore the LFAS community and why the Arts Matter to all of us.

10 Comicbook Photo Effect Tutorial

We are going to take a portrait and turn it in to a vector image to give it a cartoon like appearance. Start with a digital portrait, open it in Photoshop and follow along. When you are done, we are going to pull it into Comic Life and add a quote, song lyric, or poem...

Here are a few tutorials:

1. In-Class Simple Vector Drawing Tutorial
2. Easy Comic Tutorial
3. Vector Drawing Tutorial (using the pen tool to create lines)
4. Vector Tutorial (super fast overview of vector drawing)

Send words of hope for students in Japan:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/hope-for-Japan

Define LFAS/Why Art Matters Discussion

Post a comment below, or visit my event on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184367654942852&pending
We are looking forward to your response. Share with you friends and family.

Term1 Projects

Photo 9 Semester 2 Term 1

1. Personify 1
2. Composition Definitions- leading lines, rule of 3rds, repetition, framing, contrast)
3. 5 Composition Photos
4. Personification 2 (contact sheet label emphasis)
5. Personification 2 (3 prints and comments)
6. Pin Hole Photographer and Image
7. Pin Hole Camera (3 prints and positive)
8. Shutter Definitions
9. JR Image & Responses.

Photo 10 Semester 2 Term 1

1. Personify 1
2. 1st Experience
3. 5 Breaking the Rules Photos
4. Personification 2 (contact sheet)
5. Personification 2 (3 prints and comments)
6. Aperture Definitions
7. 3 Aperture Pics (found and identify #)
8. Aperture Contact
9. Aperture Prints (3 images indentify DOF)
10. JR Image & Responses

10s Studio Portraits

Light Source
One of the most important things of a good light source is its size. This determines what type of shadows you are going to have and also affects the type of reflection
Small light sources will produce a hard edged shadow, large light sources will produce a soft edged shadow.
Take as an example the most important light source in our life, the SUN. In a nice bright day with no clouds the sun will act as a small light source. On the other hand when it is a cloudy day the clouds will act as diffuser and the light source will not arrive from a direct single point but will be diffused through the clouds thus becoming a large light source and therefore producing soft edged shadows.

Lighting Angles
A person looking at an object sees each point of that object at a slightly different angle. If we sum up all these angles we would have a family of angles. The family of angles is very important thing to master as a photographer because it determines where we can place or where we cannot place our lights.
For this Studio Portrait Assignment, you are going to work with three basic lighting angles: Hatchet/Side Lighting, Rembrandt, and Glamour/Butterfly lighting. Below is an example of a Rembrandt Lighting set-up:
Find an example of each in your journal. Explain how the lighting set up is arranged to create this effect.

Rembrandt Lighting

Glamour Lighting



Side Lighting 



JR- InsideOut Project

JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his work and learn how you can join in at:
insideoutproject.net.
http://www.jr-art.net/

Part 1

Choose one of the following topics from JR’s InsideOut Project. Find an image from the series that you are noting and add the photo(s) and your comment in your journal/blog:

1. What was the initial intention of JR’s first installation project? Was it effective? Why or why not? Give examples of his work and explain its impact on the community.
2. Select an image, or series that impacted you, explain how it has impacted you and the community that it was created for.
3. How does JR’s art make a difference? Site a specific series and specific images. Explain the reason for the images and potential impact that it has on the community.

Part 2  Scavenger Hunt
Finally check out JR's InsideOut site and find Sarah R. See what she says about the project and one other, make a note of it in your journal and add aphoto of your favourite InsideOut participant.

Part 3
Now consider and discuss the following in your journal add your response to the Facebook group (I will setup this weekend.):

1. Define your school community.
2. What do you value about your school community?
3. Why does art matter?
4. How would you express this visually?

Earthquake in Japan

Please send words of hope for students in Japan:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/hope-for-Japan

Monday Feb 28/ Tuesday March 1

Hey there folks!

Today we are doing lots of things!

For the 9's:

We are starting pinhole today, starting with the demo.
For this project I'm asking for 3 negatives, and one positive from those negatives.
We will be using the class cameras, but you are free to make your own for bonus, and I will demo making a camera later this week.
Your 3 negatives should show:
*one clear image
*one movement image
*one double exposure
Your positive will be of one of these negatives. All should be clear.
I would like your images to be taken from unusual angles, outside. [Think the photographer from last day]

For the 10's

You will be showing the 9's around the darkroom, please think of the important things to show them.
For your blog:
Please define "aperture" : what does it affect? How do you control the depth of feild? What are the advantages of controlling the depth of feild?
Post 1 photo's each to your blog showing a close, middle, and far depth of feild.
Begin thinking of things you can photograph that would create an interesting relationship between the background and foreground for your project.

Work time in the darkroom for the last part of class. Please continue making your contact sheet, prints, and scanning.

Pinhole Intro Day!

Hello Hello!

9's
Today we are starting to work on pinhole camera!
Below are a couple of links we'll be looking through as a class.

camera obscura video
making a pinhole from a juice box!
Vancouver Alternative Photographer Christopher Evans

What we'll be doing today: Your personification project should be finished and on your blog. Please complete the forms in the share folder under Enlarger. One is info, the other are questions. They can be printed and handed in to the hand-in box at the front of the class.

Then, look up a local [BC] artist that works in Pinhole or alternative photography [not the one above] and  post a link on your blog. Explain what you like about this photographer. [3-4 sentences]

We'll be working through pinhole next week.

10's
Working block. Please use this time to scan your print or negatives for your blog.

Scanner Demo Day, Work Day!

Good Day!

For the Grade 9's, if you are finished working through your projects and everything is on your blog, then please go to the share folder. Find the Enlarger folder and locate the worksheets. One has lots of information, the other has some basic questions.  I can accept them either online or in person into the hand in box at the front of the room for Photo 9/10.
Look up Pinhole cameras as well to get familiar with how they work and how you would use them.

For the Grade 10's there will be a demo on film scanning, using the Epson Scanner on the computer by the door. I would like your best photo scanned and put online. [Your 3 prints will still be handed in with the question answers.]

Digital Contact Sheets

Good Afternoon!

Today we will be going over how to make a digital contact sheet using Adobe Bridge, and then posting it to your blog for the grade 9's. Make sure that they are labeled with your experiments in composition.

The grade 10's have the opportunity to use the darkroom to develop your film from last day.

Wednesday and Thursday!

9's

Today we are setting up blogs! If you have a gmail account already, please use Blogger to set up as its fairly user friendly, if not, you are welcome to use WordPress.com [not .org!]
We will be walking through each one.

Continue on to post the assignment from last day.

10's

Please do this for your Blog:

Post 2 images, with an explanation of why for each
     What you like to do, take photo's of
     What you are curious about
     What you are proud of
Tell me in words: What was your first experience with Photography? Basically I'd like you to tell me why you are here, and where you'd like to go?

Downloading Your Photos

Today we are going to download photos from Friday's field trip to Fort Langley.
You are to save your images to your folder on the server. Name them with your last name in the title, and Project 1.

We will be sharing your favorite photo with the class. Save it under the share folder, D1, in the "Personify 1" folder.

You are also going to be writting a few sentences about the backround of your object.

-In about 5 sentences, discuss the choices you made with the object in regards to how you personified it, gave it a personality, the settings you used in the camera. Tell me a story!
-Save this into a Microsoft Word Document in your student folder. Email it to yourself if necessary to work on at home. This will be posted in your Blog when we set it up later this week.

Camera Modes

Camera Modes

Today your are going to work in groups of two to identify Camera Modes and learn about basic digital camer functions. We are going to research and share definitions with the class and try to use the camera functions in groups.

Welcome to Photography 9/10

Welcome to the world of Photography. We are going to continue to explore the world around us while learning about Photography. Here is what we plan to do this semester (disclaimer- projects will not always follow this order):

• Photo9 Outline for students who have never taken Photography before
• Photo10 Outline for students who have taken Photo 9 before
• Media Arts 10 Outline for self-motivated students who have taken Photo 9 and 10 before.
• Supply List
• Everyone remember your field trip form and camera for next class.

Final Journal Check List

Make sure you have the following in your final journal:
All Photo9&10s     Photo9s only      Photo10s only

1. 9 & 10s Title Page
2. Digital Portrait
3. Surveillance 1 + Comments
4. Camera Vocabulary
5. Best of BW Surveillance
6. 5 Favorite Photos (any that you like)
7. 2010 this year in photos. 2 photos & comments
8. 9 Composition Definitions Emphasis and Photo Examples (leading lines, rules of 3rds, framing, repetition, contrast)
9. 9s Best of Pin Hole
10. 9 Shutter Speed Examples
11. 9 Shutter Definitions
12. 9 Shutter Speed Your Best
13. 9 Elements of Design Examples
14. 9 Portrait Examples
15. 9 Portrait Best
16. 10s Studio Portrait examples of lighting techniques
17. 10s  Studio Best of
18. 10s Aperture Definitions
19. 10s Aperture Examples
20. 10s Aperture Best
21. 10s Panorama- David Hockney
22. 10s Panorama Contact Sheet/Best
23. 10s Comic Ideas
24. 10s Comic Best

Photo 10- Photographic Comic Narrative

Tell a story in photographs and arrange it in a comic strip like series. Your series will consist of 7 or more descriptive photographs to tell your story. Use thought bubbles and narrative description boxes only to clarify your ideas and the actions and thoughts of the characters. Use real people, not dolls or action figures, but you can use inanimate objects as your subject i.e. "the day in the life of an apple". Be descriptive with your imagery. Remember lighting, and depth of field techniques when photographing each image. You will be digitally enhancing your images to manipulate colour. Arrange your images to tell a story. You can add drawings, hand colouring, scribbling, and collage to you comic.

1. Brainstorm- your story ideas, write down your narrative, can be in point or paragraph form.
2. Storyboard- plan your images in frames. Include a close-up, medium shot and long shot to establish the space.
3. Shoot- Photograph your story either digital of BW.
4. Download or develop your negatives (scan negatives).
5. Digitally enhance the colour and contrast in the images.
6. Arrange in a comic-like narrative sequence (can use Comic Life).
7. Print or post in your journal/blog.

Photo 9 Elements of Design

Find examples of the Elements of Design in Photography for your journal/blog:
Line, Shape, Form, Texture, Colour

Line
A line represents a "path" between two points. A line can be straight, curved, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, or zigzag. Lines imply motion and suggest direction or orientation. The direction and orientation of a line can also imply certain feelings. Horizontal lines imply tranquility and rest, whereas vertical lines imply power and strength. Oblique lines imply movement, action and change. Curved lines or S shaped lines imply quiet, calm and sensual feelings. Lines that converge imply depth, scale and distance - a fence or roadway converges into the distance provides the illusion that a flat two-dimensional image has three-dimensional depth. A line is an effective element of design because it can lead the viewer's eye. To create more effective photographs actively look for lines and arrange them within your viewfinder to invoke specific feelings.


Shape 2-D
Shapes are the result of closed lines. In photography, shapes can be a color area or an arrangement of flat, 2 dimentional objects within the camera's viewfinder. Some primary shapes include circles, squares, triangles and hexagons. Space is defined and determined by shapes and forms. Light coming from behind a subject can form a silhouette resulting in object that is completely black against a lighter colored background. Silhouettes appear as two-dimensional shapes lacking form.

Form - 3-D
Form refers to the three-dimensional quality of an object, which is due in part to light, and dark areas. When light from a single direction (e.g. our sun) hits an object, part of the object is in shadow. Light and dark areas within an image provide contrast that can suggest volume. Positive space is where shapes and forms exist; negative space is the empty space around shapes and forms.

Color
There has been a tremendous amount of research on how color affects human beings and some of this research suggests that men and women may respond to colors differently. Color affects us emotionally, with different colors evoking different emotions.

Texture
Describes a surface of an object. Texture can be soft, smoothe, shiney, bumpy, rough, jagged...

This Year in Pictures

It is the beginning of a New Year. We're going to reflect on events that happened throughout 2010 that were where documented with photographs. We are going to take a look at the MSNBC photos of the year together as a class.

View the photos from either site (or both sites)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999736/
or
http://uk.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTXVJJH#a=1

Here's what you do:

1. Select your favourite "news" photo from 2010.
2. Print or upload to journal/blog.
3. Comment why it is your favourite.
4. Explain what the event is.
5. How does the image document the event? How does the image tell the story? 
6. Identify the subject.
7. What emphasizes the subject and how does it emphasize it? Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing?

Then

1. Select your favourite New Year's Photo.
2. Print or upload to journal/blog.
3. Comment why it is your favourite.
4. Explain what the event is.
5. How does the image document the event? How does the image tell the story?
6. Identify the subject.
7. What emphasizes the subject? Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing. 
8. What are your New Years' goals and/or resolutions?