Portraits

Portrait/Form Project Criteria
Take a series of photographs of someone in natural light. The background is as significant as the subject and should be well considered. You are to compose five different portraits in surroundings that describe the person in the photo. Consider your expressions, costumes, props and lighting. (Photos by LFAS Alumni- Greg Swales)

1. Photograph your partner 25x or more. Make sure you take at least five different photos of each your partner using the same background so that you can have a selection to choose from. Try 2 different backgrounds and different angles, lighting, expressions ... The more pictures you take, the better chance for successful compositions. Be as clear as possible with your idea so that you can clearly communicate to your subjects. 
2. Make a digital contact sheet.
3. Upload your 3 favorite images to your blog and share your best with your person. 
4. Post your partner's image of you on your blog.

Grade 10s 
Consider depth of field in composing your portraits try to use short, medium, and long range of focus using your aperture. Also consider light and experimenting with how light is cast on your subject angles of light etc.

5 Composition Emphasis Techniques

We are going to explore photographic composition for the B/W film project.

 

Find the definition and photo examples of the following terms and post to your blog. In class we will be going over these composition techniques- 5 ways to emphasize the subject:

1.   - Rule of thirds
2.   - Patterns and Repetition
3.   - Leading Lines
4.   - Framing
5.   - Contrast

For this assignment, find ONE subject that you want to photograph- could be a friend, an apple, the school, your home, your dog, the bus stop.
Use at least one of the composition EMPHASIS techniques in your photos to enhance your subject to make it more obvious and stand out.
Shoot with B/W film.
Take your photos OUTSIDE using natural light.
You will learn to develop your negatives, make a contact sheet and one print.

Largest Pin Hole Camera

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/worlds-largest-pinhole-camera-takes-worlds-largest-photo/?cid=fb_share

shutter speeds

Slow Shutter Speed

1 or Bulb because the cloud has moved significantly and to capture the movement, you need a really slow shutter. Also the photographer might have used a tripod, and a neutral density filter....

9 Shutter Assignment

1/30 Blur Movement

1/4 Blurry Story

The Assignment- You are to take a series of photographs where you capture movement with your camera by controlling the shutter. You are to try the 6 different shutter speed techniques (see above) but try at least 5+ for each to make sure you practice and get a good example capturing movement.  

The Contact Sheet -Arrange your images in a contact sheet of 30 shutter photos (try several shots for each experiment) and label them with the shutter speed that you tried and the experiment title. Contact label each experiment with the shutter speed that you used.

Post- your 6 best shutter images (one from each experiment) to your blog label with the experiment title and shutter speed that you used.

1. Blur Movement
2. Freeze Frame Movement
3. Panning Fast- Blur background, clear movement.
4. Panning with Slow Shutter Speed
5. A Blurry Story
6. Experimental

Solargraphy Reflections

SCAN each image directly out of the pin hole camera in subdued light.
**DO NOT PUT THE PHOTOS IN THE DEVELOPER**
Post to your blog and comment on your Solargraphy results for each of the three different scenes:

1. Explain briefly what you did.
2. Describe the location where you placed the pin hole camera?
3. Record the length of each exposure: ie. Camera 1: 7 Days, Camera 2: 14 Days.
4. Note the weather conditions during the time it was open.
5. Describe the visible information from your solar-print, what do you see, what did not record?