Textures

EU: Textures can be overlayed with your photographs in order to create a unique effect
EQ: What kind of textures can you capture to enhance your photography?

Assignment: Textures are available over the internet but it would great to start your own file that you can pull from when necessary. Your file can showcase an array of different types of textures from grunge, to sand, to fabric, etc. 

Steps: 

1. Get outside and wander to discover and shoot all sorts of textures 
2. Use the macro lens if desired to get up close on fabrics and more
3. Turn in a contact sheet with 60 images (mostly different-not ten of the same thing)
4. Edit at least 20 of your favorites which show a strong variety
5. Create a folder named "textures" to store them in 
6. Create a new contact sheet with your edited 20 and post the contact sheet to the blog
7. Practice overlaying two of your textures with some old or new photographs (use blend modes and layer masks to hide and show what you want) and post to the blog with a short paragraph reflection on your final results

Shoes

Shoes Assignment (Pre-Assessment):

EU: All students come to a new class with a certain skill level already in place.
EQ: What is your Photoraphy skill level?

Photo Rubric

Steps:

1. Take 30 images of shoes concentration on composition, light, and creativity
2. Download images to your computer and print a contact sheet to hand in to Mrs. Donovan
3. After learning some basic editing techniques in Photoshop, choose 3/4 of your strongest images and edit them
4. Upload your image to your blog in a new post entitled "shoes"
5. For each image answer the following questions and post to blog when finished.

• How did you approach the composition?
• What type of light did you use? 
• Why do you think the photograph is successful?

1st Blog Entry: Composition

EU: Photographers use basic composition guidelines when taking an image in order to shoot a strong photograph

EQ: How can I take a strong photograph?

The first thing that I would like you to do today if figure out how to make a blog post, how to add an image to that blog post, and how to critique a photograph in an artistic way. Also, I want you to be familiar with some composition guidelines before we take some images!

Start by clicking on the two articles below and read through them both....

Rule of Thirds

18 Composition Rules for Photos that Shine

Assignment Steps:

1. Read through both articles linked above
2. Start a new post in Blogger entitled "Composition"
3. Choose 3 Rules of composition that speak to you as a photographer.
4. List each rule and find a picture that you think fits that rule from the internet to accompany your top picks. Write a very brief summary explaining the image and why you think that it fits the rule. 
5. In a final paragraph tell me why you took photography and what type of images/projects you may be interested in shooting this year. Do you prefer to work hands on and build (collage, photo books) or do you prefer to work digitally and manipulate photographs (Photoshop)? This will help me as I develop projects throughout the year. Add in what your interests are specifically (music, sports, etc.).

Advanced Graphics: Design Principles

Assignment: Design a poster series of 4 16x20 inch vertical posters that relay the understanding of each design principle (a student cheat sheet)

Check out this Slide Show: Understanding Graphic Design

and Read this Blog Article: 10 Tips for the Perfect Poster

Design Principles

Proximity-Items relating to each other should be grouped close together to promote visual unity

Alignment-Every item should have a visual connection with something else on the page

Contrast-Unique elements in a design should stand apart from one another such as color, tone, size and more

Repetition-Repeat some aspect of the design throughout the entire piece to establish a style 

Photo 2: Weaved Photography

Objective: Use originally imagery that you have taken to create a fine art weaved photograph

Assignment: Using images from your Photo Challenges. Choose two that you can weave together. You may add in interesting elements or keep it as photographs only. You may also take one photo and change it to color vs. black and white before weaving. Some ideas are below, although as always I would love to see some creative changes and ideas for your own projects.

 

 

Graphics 1: Typographic Portrait

5/12 Substitute Plans

Class Assignment: Watch a video and create and save several word clouds to use to make your own typographic portrait for you next project

Step 1: Watch this You Tube Video

Photoshop: Transform a Face into a Powerful Text Portrait

Step 2: Decide on a celebrity or person to create a typographic portrait and either type up or copy and paste words into a document to be used for your word clouds

Hint: You may use song lyrics, movie titles, sports terminology, etc.

Step 3: Go to wordclouds.com and follow the directions below to create and save a bubble (Make 3 or 4!)

Step by Step Directions:

1. Go to wordclouds.com (wordle does not work so you must use this site)
2. Click on File -> Paste/Type text,
3. Paste or type in the text that fits your chosen person into the box and click APPLY
4. Click on Shape -> and select the second black rectangle in the first row -> click CLOSE
5. Click on the third icon (looks like a refresh button) for direction of words -> click on the third box labeled horizontal and vertical -> click CLOSE
6. Click Colors -> Background Color -> Choose Black in the color gradient box -> click APPLY
7. Click Colors -> Cloud Colors -> Make sure all colors are set to as white as possible -> click APPLY
8. Click Font -> Choose a font that is not too decorative (plain is better)
9. Right click word bubble and Save image as -> name your file and save it under your name in your graphics folder

*All word bubbles should be white text on a black background unless you would like to try a bright color like pink or blue (fluorescent almost) and saved to your file so that you may access them in the graphics lab

*Save to your google drive if you cannot save to your graphics folder

*help other students if they having trouble

Photo 1: Shadow Puppets

Shadow Puppets

EU: As a photographer it is important to sometimes build and design your own subject for a photo shoot in order to practice lighting and composition

EQ: How can you match your subject and background in order to push the concept or theme within your photography

Assignment: Build a shadow puppet using black card stock and a wooden dowel and photograph it against a plain as well as a background to suit your subject matter. 30 pics to a contact sheet and one of each background edited and posted to the blog with a short reflection. (Hint: Adding in some detail will help to grab the viewer)

Student Sample: Baillie Power

Internet Sample