- Check out Today’s Warm Up
- Turn in two photos for Photo Challenge – Low Key Lighting. – TWO photos due TODAY.
- Check out the requirements for next week’s Photo Challenge Person Portrait & Slideshow.
Today’s Warm Up: Surreal Portraits by 19-Year-Old Fine Art Photographer David Talley
http://petapixel.com/2012/11/14/surreal-portraits-by-19-year-old-fine-art-photographer-david-talley/
What sort of materials did Talley use to make these images? How are they different from traditional portraits? What ideas does this give you for your person portrait photo challenge?
This Week’s Photo Challenge: Person Portrait & Slideshow Project
This is an example of a portrait.
Examples here:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/michel_kramermetraux
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/joseph_cotton
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/teresa_zakow
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/mark_mocha
Student Examples Here:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7sduPfVec]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foC4xTvqHNI]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw0h_iLZrSM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxdGXCQu1U&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKB7Wia5Ju0&feature=youtu.be
For your next photo challenge, you will take five images that has to do with someone at school, a student a teacher, etc. You will take five photos that have to do with this person. Not all five will be photos of the person, maybe 1-2, the other three or four images will be of things that they are talking about. It could be the object that is in their hand. It could be a concept that they are talking about. You will bring an audio recorder with you, or use the microphone on your Smartphone to capture the interview with this person.The slideshows will be at least thirty seconds, five seconds per slide.
Potential questions could include:
- Name one thing that gives You joy outside of teaching/school?
- Name and describe one person who made you who you are today?
- Describe a challenge you faced and how you overcame it?
- What’s one thing you do better than anyone?
- What’s one person who has had a huge influence over your life and why?
Choose one or more of these questions to ask, and see what they come up with, asking leading questions if they say, I don’t know.
Once you have your interview, you will take the audio you recorded, and the photos you took and mix it together in Adobe Premiere Pro or you can use Adobe Spark. See the tutorial below.
HERE’S MY TUTORIAL:
http://screencast.com/t/QFhEpLsD4
We will post them all to youtube, and collect them all on a page for us to critique.
Oh and by the way, this assignment we are doing is totally the thing they do all the time in the Multimedia class, for posting onto HOWL Heritage.
Portrait Photo is due Thursday, 11/10.
FIVE PHOTOS & AUDIO INTERVIEW DUE POSTED AS A LINK TO THIS POST ON OR BEFORE Tuesday, November 22nd.
Required Response: Write down in the comments section three people you could interview for this project, what questions you would ask them, and where would this interview take place?
To Do List for 11/3
- Check out Today’s Warm Up
- Use a strobe, or a speed light to create two images for the Photo Challenge – Low Key Lighting. – TWO photos due TOMORROW.
Today’s Warm Up: 10 Quick and Easy Lightroom Tricks Every User Should Know
After viewing the tutorial above, answer the following questions using complete sentences:
What was the most useful thing you learned in this tutorial? What do you think will be useful to you in the future?
To Do List for 11/2
- Check out Today’s Warm Up
- Use a strobe, or a speed light to create two images for the Photo Challenge – Low Key Lighting. – TWO photos due on Friday.
Today’s Warm Up: Surreal Digital Art by Sarolta Ban
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mindazonaltal/
After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
What images are you most interested in you and why? What do you think was Ban’s inspiration for this series? How do you think they did it? What ideas do you get for your own work?
To Do List for 11/1
- Check out Today’s Warm Up
- Get together with your CFG and Critique your period’s HDR Photos:
- Strong goes over capturing low key images with off camera flash.
- Check out the requirements for Photo Challenge – Low Key Lighting. – TWO photos due on Friday.
Today’s Warm Up: Landscape Photographs by Nick Verbelchuk
http://weandthecolor.com/nick-verbelchuk-photography/79305
After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.
What role do lines have in some of these photos? What makes these photos so engaging? How does he get those aerial shots? What ideas do you get for your own work?
CFG Critique & Voting: HDR – Period 5
Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the HDR photos you made last week. All of the work that was turned in last week is up now on the website.
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 each image contain an HDR type effect to it? Is the HDR effect subtle or heavy? Does the HDR special effect compliment the subject matter well? Is the subject something that is brightly colored? What is the photographer trying to say with this HDR effect? Does the image need to be cropped or rotated? Is the photo’s subject in sharp focus?
2. Overall, what could be done to make this photo stronger?
Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions
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