Photoshop Quiz final (20 pts possible)

*Removing the Scar is Extra Credit
Copy the image and paste it to Photoshop.
The more realistic it looks the better the grade

Commercial photo assignment

Commercial photo shoot assignment

What are we doing?

• Learning about different types of commercial photography
• Sports, food, product, fashion, wedding/event
  and wildlife 
• Research one of the different types of commercial photography
• Look at magazines and see how they advertise for that product with photos
• Write a 5 sentence paragraph about what you have learned about that specific type of commercial photography. Post it to your blog.
• Choose one type of commercial photography and produce 3 images in that style. Post these 3 photos to your blog.
• Using those images you will create a magazine page advertising or telling about your object you photographed. Use Photoshop, Powerpoint, Microsoft word or Illustrator to produce your advertisement. When finished post to your blog.

*These assignments are all part of your final grade.

Research Paragraph-    10 pts

3 Commercial photos-  30 pts

1 Magazine page-          20 pts

What should I make sure to do? What should I think about?

• How can a situation/object look more interesting than they do in real life?
• Think about every single object in the frame. Are you sure you want it to be there?
• Think about what you are trying to say with the photograph. Is it just “pretty”, or are you trying to tell the view something?
• Think about the camera angle…is it boring? Does it help to say something about the subject?
• Think about what focal length you want. Wide angle or zoom. Try framing the shot in different focal lengths before taking a picture. Which is the best composition?
• Think about where you point you camera to meter a scene. Is it a really dark place or a really light place? Make sure it is not too light or too dark. Make sure to use correct exposure. DON'T even bother taking the photo if you don’t have good lighting

Power Point presentation on a Photographer DUE: Dec 17

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON A PHOTOGRAPHER

The presentation will only be a 3-5 minutes long  1) Pick one of the photographers below. Try to avoid doing a photographer that someone else in the class is doing. 2) Find at least 5 images by that photographer and put it into your powerpoint presentation. Make sure images are appropriate to show in class. 3) Research the photographer and include what you find in your presentation. Some of the questions that you will answer are: •  basic info (birth date and location, etc.) •  how did the photographer start taking photographs (schooling, etc.) •  what are the important themes/ideas in their work •  what is their style (light, dark, odd, crisp, blurry, etc.) •  what makes them important or unique in the history of photography •  what political/economic/historical factors influenced the work 4) Make sure to include your own opinions about the photographer's work. Do you like it? What do you like about it? What does this photographer do that you would like to do in your own work? 5) LONG PARAGRAPH EVALUATION OF ONE IMAGE •  Talk about principles and elements of design: line, shape, space, value, balance, etc. •  Talk about the quality of light in the image. •  Does the photo have a center of interest? What is it and why does it capture your interest? •  Describe the mood of the work. Why does it have that mood? •  What do you like best about the image?

*You may choose your own photographer or here is a list to look at fine art photographers ODD/STRANGE/COOL: diane arbus, robert frank, Sally Mann, mary ellen mark, duane michels, cindy sherman, weegee, garry winogrand, man ray, danny lyon, david hockney, joel meyerowitz, mike and doug starn, eliot porter(landscape), david levinthal, sandy skoglund, sophie calle, ralph eugene meatyard, sabastiao salgado, wynn bullock, philip-lorca dicorcia, gregory crewdson, joel sternfeld,  uta barth, james casebere, tina barney, john baldessari, jan dibbets, andreas gursky, roni horn, nikki s. lee,  gordon matta clark, duane michals, shirin neshat, thomas struth, , lorna simpson, richard misrach, rineke dijkstra, thomas demand, , tom baril, FASHION/CELEBRITY: irving penn, richard avendon, annie leibovitz*, barbara morgan, horst p. horst, steven meisel, herb ritts, louise dahl-wolfe, mario testino, CLASSIC/MASTERS/HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT:margaret bourke-white, mathew brady, harry callahan, imogen cunningham, walker evans, lewis hine, andre kertesz, dorothea lange, jacob riis, charles scheeler, edward weston, edward steichen, alfred stieglitz, paul strand, james van der zee, minor white, alexander rodchenko, manuel alverez bravo, felice beato, bill brandt, julia margaret cameron, henri cartier bresson, tina modotti, lisette model, leni riefenstahl, w. eugene smith, werner bischof, robert doisneau, alfred eisenstaedt, brassai More : hiroshi sugimoto, jacques-henri lartigue, tokihiro sato, loretta lux, ,ansel adams, Tim Kemple, William Wegman, NAtional geographic photographers work too such as Steve McCurry

NO PHOTOGRAPHER SHOULD BE DONE BY MORE THAN ONE PERSON.

What I will be looking for:

•  presentation contains all the required items/information•  powerpoint is neat with clear text and large images •  evaluation is thoughtful and detailed •  information in the presentation is well organized•  spelling and grammar of text is accurate•  presentation shows understanding of concepts or topics being depicted in the images final result represents your full potential.•  The oral presentation must be well organized and rehearsed.

Clone project

Here is a website to remind you how to create your cloned image.

http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?videoId=PIG1PH_dREQ

Using a tripod setting your camera on a desk take at least 3 photos of one person that you can combine into one image.

Post to your blog

Due- December 17

Ugly into beautiful

We have been talking about aesthetics and beauty the last few class periods. For this photo assignment I want you to
- find something plain, ugly or ordinary and find a way to photograph it making a beautiful photograph.

-Post 1 ugly to beautiful photographs on your blog
-Post a photo of the ordinary/ugly object and the beautiful photo

-DUE The day we get back from thanksgiving break Monday DEC 1.

portrait

This is Gordon. He is my friend mostly because he smiles at me, laughs when I tell jokes, and holds my hand to walk around. This photo is interesting because of the natural light shining on Gordon. His eyes draw the view in and look alive because of the light reflecting in them. His eyes are also lay on a third line of the photo. Any distracting elements have also been cropped out.

Portrait

This is my Dad. He loves to work out in our garden and is great at it. He can grow anything. This is a portrait of him in our green house. The green house works as a diffuser for the light so that it isn't direct high contrasting light. I used a wide angle lens in order to get a full body shot. I also included leading lines in the shot. My Dad is my friend because he listens to me, gives me advice, protects me, goes on runs with me, supports me, and makes me laugh.
Do you like it with or without vignette?