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?

10 Panorama

Landscape Panorama- You are going to take a series of photos of a single topic in a side to side, top to bottom sequence so that they can be stitched together.

The scene is up to you, but I want to to experiment in a David Hockney-esk way. See photo 1. Hockney uses multiple photos to create a scene, but not of the photos have the same exposure, or the same range of focus. Also, if you look closely, you will see that he even changes his position slightly to create optical illusions- notice the tree, you can see through it.

David Hockney is painter from Great Britain who migrated to U.S.A. in the 1960's and found the land so grand (particularly the Grand Canyon) that it could not be photographed in one shot. Also he did not like the how the wide angle lens would distort the scene. So he decided to photograph a scene in a series and join it together. He called this collaging process "joiners".

For this assignment, first explore the work of David Hockney, find 2 panorama/joiners and post them on your blog. Then you are to take a 9+ photos of a scene. Print a contact sheet and stitch it in your journal and then either using Photoshop, or scissors and glue assemble your panorama- each image 3.5 x 5. Have fun, be creative.

9s Pin Hole Camera

Find 2+ examples of pin hole cameras for your Journal and 3-5 photos that were taken with a pin hole camera. Define what a pin hole camera is and how it works.
 

Here is a site to check out:

Pin Hole Camera Gallery

The Pin Hole Camera Assignment:

You are to use a basic box that is completely light tight as a camera.

Try to take photos with your box by loading the photo paper in the darkroom and going outside to take your photos. Make sure you keep track of the time and hold steady with each exposure (a tripod can be handy).

You are to try the following exposures:

1. Clear Subject- image is in focus, good exposure, subject is easy to identify.
2. Double Exposure- Expose your photo paper 2 times. You image should still be clear and easy to see.
3. Movement- Make sure you can identify your image. The movement should be very slow.
4. Positive of one of the above. Use the enlarger to invert the darks to light and visa versa.
5. Label all of your experiments and hand in.