Animated Gif – Period 1

https://goo.gl/photos/CogxfsJg7FAg1Hio8

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the Choose Love images 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.How well does the photograph show motion with their animated gif? Does the animation appear smooth, or is it choppy? Does it loop? Does the animation tell some sort of story? Can you clearly see what the image is trying to say? Are there spots the photographer could improve upon? Does the photo demonstrate thinking outside the box? Is the focus appropriate for the subject of the photo? Was Photoshop used appropriately to adjust the levels in the photographs that make up the animation?

2. What could be done to improve the overall quality of this animation?

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

Critiques are due on Tuesday.

 

Brainstorming Session: Photo Series: Five Images

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Take 10 minutes. Write down as much as you can during that time.  Keep your hands typing or your pen moving the entire time. Write down whatever comes to mind, follow your mind’s direction, don’t try to steer it one way or another. Stick with each image and describe it as closely as you can.

Now  imagine your life, at the end of it, you have five images with which to share your existence on this earth. What would those five images look like? It could be the life you always wanted, it could be five images that convey to the world exactly how you feel about the world? It could be really showing the world who you are.

What images come to mind? IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE, share what you wrote by pasting the results in to the comment section of THIS POST.

 

Today’s Warm Up: The Exquisite Portrait Work of Maria Kanevskaya

http://www.studentshow.com/kmusiy

http://www.mariakanevskaya.com/#5

After viewing the photos contained in the above link (Try her website, the student show link is there as backup just in case her website is blocked.) answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What words would you use to describe  Kanevskaya’s work? What photographic techniques does she use to create these works? What makes these  photos resonate with you? What ideas do you get for your own work?

Next Assignment: Photo Series

 

For this next project, you will shoot FIVE PHOTOS that have a common theme. Another way of looking at this is telling a story with five photographs. A story that is complex enough to explore that you need the five photos to explore that.

You could see this as a personal essay with photos instead of words.

Example:Why am I so neurotic? Did my parents make the same mistakes I do? Why do I feel really strongly about a certain things? How well do I know my best friend? Do your friends really define you? Why do I love music so much? Why do I try so hard at soccer at 42, am I really trying to impress my father after all these years?

For the written part, you will write a two paragraph explanation of what your photo series is trying to say.

Examples?

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/sacred-objects-by-savannah-briley/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/star-spangled-heart-by-liz-vuziy/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/video/perspectives-by-dmitriy-ivanchuk/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/human-things-by-alena-wickham/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/photography/reaching-out-by-malina-alexander/

http://howlheritage.com/blog/news/isolation/

http://immunemedia.com/high-school/slice/#more-819

http://www.anjaniemiphotography.com/

http://www.lenscratch.com/2010/02/catherine-opie-and-football.html

http://www.mrtoledano.com/bankrupt/01-Bankrupt

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37041015@N03/sets/72157619385205348/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/75935220@N08/sets/72157641184825443/with/12606471185/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sk8er95/sets/72157641325198353/with/12683633444/

Advice: Choose a subject that you are passionate about or that confuses you. You could do five photos on dreams, with all five photos being of specific dreams you had. Or you could do a photo series on what people want to be after college, in life.

 

Today’s Warm Up: Julian Chen’s Wild

http://www.studentshow.com/gallery/32112121/WILD

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

What do these photos have to do with the theme of Wild? How does each photo contribute to that theme? What do all of these photos have to say about being Wild or people in the Wild, or mankind’s existence with nature? Which special effects does Chen use to reinforce that idea. What ideas do you get for your own work? How would you approach the theme of Wild in five photographs?

Today’s Warm Up: Poetic Photography by Cristina Coral

http://weandthecolor.com/poetic-photography-cristina-coral/75107

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

How do these images reflect the feelings that can be found in poems? What moods or emotions do you get out of these photos? What is the photographer trying to say about the world with these images? What ideas do you get for your own work out of these images?