Photo 1A
Welcome to Digital Photography!
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Shoot for the weekend of 11/21
CIB Lesson 11 (OLD BOOK!)
Silhouette-The IPOD Project (3 compositions)
The Challenge (extra credit) Emotion
Create a silhouette that demonstrates an emotion such as; joy, isolation, anxiety, tranquility, etc. Write a short paragraph that explains your choice and how it visually affects others .
CIB Lesson 10 (OLD BOOK!)
Reflection
Shoot images in a reflective surface such as glass, a mirror, water, Mylar, chrome, etc. Be careful when using a flash, position your self so that you do not get glare from the flash. The reflection is the primary center of interest.
The Challenge (extra credit) Advanced Reflections
Find a reflective surface, buildings and old windowpanes work well, where multiple reflections can be seen. You must have at least 3 different reflections in your shot. Copy images from your reflections in Adobe Photoshop and create an interesting composition.
Portrait of a friend or Relative (shoot for weekend 10/30)
CIB Lesson 9
Parent or Friend's Portrait
Same as above, however you need to reveal something about your subject (mother, father, brother, sister, etc.) No animals!
Taking pictures of older people can be very rewarding for the creative photographer. Often they will have aged in a way, which reflects their working life. For instance, a person with an outdoor occupation is likely to have a tanned, lined face-unlike an office worker. It is these physical characteristics that make photographs interesting.
Self Portaits (shoot for weekend 10/24)
CIB Lesson 6
Autobiography/Self-Portrait
A photo of yourself that reveals something about you as an individual, look within to find how you want to be seen by the viewer. Create a composition that represents you. Surround yourself with the things you love, hate, enjoy, & aspire to. Use your self-timer on the camera or direct someone else in taking the photo for you.
The Challenge (extra credit) Self-Portrait using a Prop
Costumes can provide effective props in portraits; an inclusion of an unusual hat or article of clothing changes the character of the shot and its subject.
Composite Portrait (shoot for 10/10)
You will need to take three pictures.
The first picture should be a vertical shot of a person from the knees up. The person's body should fill the frame as much as possible. For this assignment, we don't want to deal with cutting out around loose or frizzy hair, so make sure the person is either wearing a hat, has their hair slicked down or is bald. The person should not be wearing any translucent or see through clothing. Shoot the pictures against a light-background sky or a white wall. Be sure to expose for the person, not the background. Make sure the subject is in sharp focus! Note that direction of the light falling on the subject and the angle you're shooting from. You should probably take about 5-10 shots of this one.
Next, shoot a horizontal landscape (or cityscape) background. Compose your picture so that the horizon line is high up in the frame and extends across the entire picture-Don't have a telephone pole or a building or whatever extending up beyond the top edge. We want to make sure that the top of the picture can be cut off with out too much difficulty, therefore: AVOID leafy trees, flags, or anything blurry or complicated on the horizon line. Try to match the angle you're shooting from and the light-direction and quality-to the picture of the person. Expose for the land and the sky will probably be overexposed-that's OK. Take maybe ten different landscape pictures.
The third picture should be a horizontal one just the sky-nothing in the foreground. almost any sky will do, but try for some interesting clouds if there are any. Don't include the sun in the picture, unless the person and the landscape were shot with the sun in the picture, in roughly the same position. Shoot 5-10 of these.
FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS VERY, VERY CLOSELY, YOU WILL CREATE PROBLEMS FOR YOURSELF AND LOSE POINTS IF YOU DON'T.
Shoot for weekend of 9/26
Parts of a Subject
Move in close and shoot a part of something larger, an interesting detail. It should have a lot of interesting shapes and form! Watch your focusing, if it's not i focus throw it out!!
The Extra Credit Challenge
Use a variety of shapes and sizes and textures to create an all over pattern. Examine the patterns created by an object or group of objects; often when such objects or scenes are carefully framed they form an i interesting composition.
Ant's/Giant's View
Unusual angles, get above your subject and shoot straight down or get under your subject and shoot up. Digital auto focus cameras must always be 4 feet away from the subject in order for it to be in focus.
The Challenge (extra credit) Shoot through Textured Glass
Try photographing through some kind of textured glass to create a distorted image. You can place objects under the glass; a plain glass can be splattered with water to give the effect of looking through a window on a rainy day.
The Landscape
Use leading lines or place a secondary subject at a natural point of interest. Places to shoot; parks, canyons, forests, lakes, deserts, the mall, mountains, ranches, cityscapes, beaches.
The extra credit challenge-Framing
A point of interest in the foreground can be used as a framing device. Stand back from the main landscape allowing trees or some sort of foliage to frame the shot. Sometimes the framing may become to dark in the shadow so try using a flash as well.