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Description
Contrast is a basic tool in photography. You can make a photograph in which the sole subject is contrast. You can use contrast to add to the idea or emotion that you're communicating in your photograph. An equally valuable tool in photography is the repetition of colors, tones, shapes, and so forth. See notes here.
As photographers, we often look for interesting situations, places, and things that have the potential for making good photographs.
Sometimes we see something that looks like something else, such as a cloud that looks like an animal, car, or face. Turn your skills of perception toward finding and photographing things that look like letters of the alphabet. Locate and photograph shapes that could be letters with the right kind of cropping. Keep these as natural as possible, using very little FotoFlexer, except for basic corrections. Keep taking pictures until you get all twenty six letters of the alphabet. This will be more than just the alphabet, it will be your alphabet. When you are done, combine them into one image, similar to the one at the top of this post.
Requirements: You will need to meet each deadline listed below.
Due Feb. 28th:
DIN (reading and writing):
Open Contrast worksheet. Due 15 min. into the class period
Label as such: lastnamecontrastDINblock#
Save to your flash drive
Email me this document: artsyfartsyboutique@gmail.com
Visit these 2 pages:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tresjoliestudios/2862898120/
http://strongphotography.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/weekly-assignment-photo-two-alphabet/
Please delete your photos from the computer you are using. Make sure you always SAVE to your flash drive.
Begin photographing your alphabet. Get a minimum of 9 letters.
TOD: Examine your photographs, create a list of each letter of the alphabet and check off which letters you are ready to use. Before you leave, Email me a Word Document with at least 9 thumbnails. (drag your letters into the doc.) SAVE AS A WEB PAGE. (it will be a smaller file) Label as such: lastnamefeb28block#
HOMEWORK: Take home your images, visit Fotoflexer online and begin to touch up your images. You save each letter to your drive.
Don’t use any fancy effects. These images should look realistic. Use tools in the BASIC tab and try adjusting curves in the GEEK tab. You should be conscious of contrast of color, tone and texture. Each image should be square or will be in the final collage. Since you can only have 25 images in this grid you will have to combine 2 letters into one of your images (maybe the letter I with J). Email me a WORD webpage with at least 5 images on it at the beginning of class, March 2nd or before. Label as such: lastnamefeb28HWblock#
Due March 2nd:
DIN: Go to DIN Entries on our blog. 5-6 minutes
Revisit the 2 pages you visited last class and read the following post at Digital Photography School
http://www.digital-photography-school.com/5-tips-to-create-graphic-photographs
Answer the following question:
What are your plans for the best use of class time for today? (Email me this using this label: lastnamemarch2DINblock#)
Email me your HOMEWORK from last class if you haven’t already.
Continue photographing your alphabet. 9 new letters today.
TOD: Check off the letters you are finished photographing. Before leaving, Email me one new letter photo with touchups. Label as such: lastnamemarch3block#
HOMEWORK: Email me a WORD webpage of 5 more thumbnails you have touched up at the beginning of class, March 4th or before. Label as such: lastnamemarch2HWblock#
Due March 4th
DIN: Go to DIN Entries on our blog. 5-6 minutes
Answer the following questions online:
How can I touch up or improve the images I have?
What do you need to do today to complete this assignment to the best of your ability?
Email me your HOMEWORK from last class if you haven’t already.
Partner up and get some feedback from your fellow classmates.
Finish photographing your last 8 letters.
Come back to the classroom and visit Fotoflexor to touch up your images. Don’t use any fancy effects. These images should look realistic. Use tools in the BASIC tab and try adjusting curves in the GEEK tab. You should be conscious of contrast of color, tone and texture.
TOD: Email me a WORD webpage with 5 more thumbnails. Label as such: lastnamemarch4TODblock#
HOMEWORK: Finish all editing on Fotoflexer. Keep in mind that the collage will crop you photos into squares. Test that out at home before you decide if your letter will work well.
Don’t forget that you will only have time to fill up your spots on the collage, email it to me and print it out during the first 45 min. of next class.
DUE March 8th
DIN: Go to DIN Entries on our blog.
How can you be an active participant in today's critique? How would you rate your own finished product? Explain
Please check your grades online. If you see zeroes you need to turn this work in TODAY, or your grade will reflect those zeroes. Tomorrow, interim grades are DUE. I will be submitting your grades tomorrow.
You have 45 minutes at the beginning of class to ONLY fill your collage on Fotoflexer, email it to me (lastnamealphabetblock#) , print it out and hang it up.
At this point we will have a class critique.
HOMEWORK:
Fill out self evaluation and reflection. DUE March 8th by 12pm.
20 points will be taken off without this self evaluation and reflection.
DUE March 10th
Choices for today:
1- complete self evaluation
2-use time for alphabet collage (in WORD)
3-Print better version with laptop
All three complete? Go out and photograph using this page as your inspiration: Doors of Ireland
Save your images to your drive for future use.
Alphabet Trivia
Q. Is the letter A the first letter of every alphabet?
A. “A is the first letter of all alphabets except the Old German, or Runic, in which it comes fourth, and the Ethiopian, in which it is the thirteenth.”
—From Answers to Questions, by Frederic J. Haskin, 1926
