II: Light and Shadow
All photos are a record of light and shadow.
You will continue to use the Aperture Priority (AV) setting to explore formal elements, design principles, ad abstraction. Though the photos you take will be in color, you will use the Black & White adjustment layer in Photoshop to convert them to black and white. Pay attention to value and contrast.
Slideshow: Light and Shadow Examples and Assignment
Photo Scavenger Hunt Worksheet
Abstraction and Formal Elements Examples
Slideshow: Composition - What Makes a Successful Photograph?
SlideShow: Elements and Principles of Design
Essential Questions for this unit:
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What makes my photos look good?
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Composition - What Makes a Successful Photograph?
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How do people express themselves through art today?
Assignment:
1. Complete Photo Scavenger Hunt worksheet as a warm-up to abstraction portion of assignment.
Turn in 4 edited, black and white photos which illustrate the following:
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Reflection
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Abstraction
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Shadow & Light
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Framing
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I: Aperture: Depth of Field & Landscapes
Due Friday 2/16:
Take a minimum of 50 photos.
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half should have a shallow depth of field (large aperture/small number f-stop/blurry background + in focus subject)
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half should have a deep depth of field (small aperture/high number f-stop/everything in focus)
Due by end of class 2/28:
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Best 5 photos edited, saved as jpegs, uploaded to shared drive for in-class critique.
examples from last semester:
