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Today’s Warm Up: Boiling Point by Paul Octavious

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/category/photography/page/4/

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What was Octavious trying to say with this image? What made him make the image? How can art be a reaction to something that is happening on a national, political level? Have you ever used art to make a political statement? What do you believe strongly enough in that would create a piece of art as a reaction to something outside of yourself?

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To Do List for 9/19

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  1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
  2. Group Critique your Famous Quote images.
    1. Period 1 – Period 5 
    2. Just like you did for the intro portrait.
    3. Each person turns in a summary of the groups answers to the questions.
    4. Critique all photos in your group.
    5. Critique due TOMORROW.
  3. Shoot/Edit for your Photo Challenge: Slow Shutter Speed
    1. Two photos w/ slow shutter speed due on WEDNESDAY.
  4. Check out the tutorials on changing shutter speed on our cameras & 3 different shutter speed effects.
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Today’s Warm Up: Ominous Storms Photographed in Black and White

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/09/ominous-storms-photographed-in-black-and-white-by-mitch-dobrowner/

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What sort of mood is created in these images? What role does scale and proportion play in these images? What do you get in the texture contained in the clouds.? What ideas do you get for your own work?

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Voting & Group Critique Post: Famous Quote: Period 1

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the famous quote 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.Does the photo match what is said in the quote? Does the photo demonstrate thinking outside the box? Is the focus appropriate for the subject of the photo? Does the contrast in the image engage the viewer? Was Photoshop used appropriately to adjust the levels in the photograph?

2. Is unity achieved in this image? How could the unity in the photo be maximized?

Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions.

Critiques are due on Tuesday.

DO YOUR VOTING HERE

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Voting & Group Critique Post: Famous Quote: Period 5

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the famous quote 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.Does the photo match what is said in the quote? Does the photo demonstrate thinking outside the box? Is the focus appropriate for the subject of the photo? Does the contrast in the image engage the viewer? Was Photoshop used appropriately to adjust the levels in the photograph?

2. Is unity achieved in this image? How could the unity in the photo be maximized?

Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions.

Critiques are due on Tuesday.

DO YOUR VOTING HERE

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