Everything is Better the Second Time Around
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/terra-flamma-california-wildfire-photos/
After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
How can you tell these images are long exposures? How would these photos look if they weren’t long exposures? What sorts of moods are present in these images? How could you incorporate any of these ideas into your own slow shutter photography?
Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the introduction portraits you made this week.
Step 2: Each person should be able to answer these questions about each photo in your CFG. Write down the group’s thinking on each of these questions for each of your photos. Post the answers in a google doc and turn it into Google Classroom. Critiques are due on Tuesday.
1. Is this portrait an example of an unconventional portrait? What makes it an unconventional portrait? Is the focus appropriate for the subject of the photo? Does the contrast in the image engage the viewer? Is there a framing device used? Was Photoshop used appropriately to adjust the levels in the photograph?
2. What could be done to make this photo more unconventional? Do we get a sense of who this person is based on where they are photographed, props, etc? What is the photographer trying to say about the subject here? What could be done to make that more clear?
Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions.
Critiques are due on Tuesday.
After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
What about this images makes them so compelling? Think about all the things you learned about photography in Photo 1 in regards to angle, framing, etc. What relationship happens between photo and viewer in these photos?
Have you seen portraits of animals taken this way, how did they manage to get portraits that make a connection to the viewer like they did here?
For Next Week’s Photo Challenge, you will take a picture of TWOof the following quotes. Visualize what is being said, draw a picture, write a paragraph what is the image that gets stuck in your head? Take a photograph of it, connect the past and the present.PLEASE PHOTOSHOP THE TEXT OF THE QUOTE AND WHO SAID IT INTO YOUR FINISHED PHOTOGRAPH.
TWO Photos, uploaded to flickr, and posted here as comments.
Photos are due on September 14th, 2016
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Joseph Campbell
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle Onassis
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
Henry Rollins
“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
Victor Hugo
“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”
Amelia Barr
“Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.”
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Albert Camus
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Ernest Hemingway
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Buddha
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”
William Shakespeare
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
E. E. Cummings
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Pablo Picasso
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
Ansel Adams
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
“Aristotle”
REQUIRED RESPONSE: CHOOSE THREE OF THESE QUOTES AND BRAINSTORM AS MANY IDEAS AS YOU CAN FOR THESE QUOTES. LIST ALL THE IMAGES THAT COME TO YOUR MIND. GIVE AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE, AND PLEASE WRITE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
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