Our theme for this year is community, and for this first unit, we're focusing on your personal community through your perspective. Perspective is a thing that can hold a lot of things under its umbrella – it can be a visual perspective, a perspective from your experience, from other’s experience or a perspective of your thoughts about something.
Our first major project will focus on your personal community through your perspective. What is your community and how can you communicate your perspective of it through your photographs?
Our first major project will focus on your personal community through your perspective. What is your community and how can you communicate your perspective of it through your photographs?
WARM-UP Project 1: What is It? Photos
Take 20 photos (uploaded to the Art Drive) of objects that keep the viewer guessing and curious about "What is it?". Albums of your 5 best photos were to be turned in on Google Classroom.
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Warm-Up Project 2: Forced Perspective
Forced perspective is a technique which employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. (wikipedia)
In this project, you will experiment with forced perspective, turning in one final image when you are done, but please shoot multiple setups and choose the most successful for your final image.
More examples:
http://www.instantshift.com/2010/08/24/88-brilliant-examples-of-forced-perspective-photography/
https://digital-photography-school.com/forced-perspective/
In this project, you will experiment with forced perspective, turning in one final image when you are done, but please shoot multiple setups and choose the most successful for your final image.
More examples:
http://www.instantshift.com/2010/08/24/88-brilliant-examples-of-forced-perspective-photography/
https://digital-photography-school.com/forced-perspective/
work viewed in class: Forced Perspective
THE FINAL PROJECT -Your personal community scavenger hunt
Your final piece will be a series of three photos that give the viewer a perspective of your personal community. You will do this by taking photos that you feel represent your personal community and combining them into a single triptych (a piece of art composed of three images placed next to each other).
What is your personal community? That's up to you. A community is defined as:
How do I do it? You will do this "scavenger hunt style," meaning I will be giving you a list of 10 terms and you need to choose 6 of them to photograph. You will then take at least 6 different photos representing each of the 6 terms. Don't just do the same photo 6 times, but show that term differently. Zoom in, get it from a different angle, get the details, zoom out, look at it from underneath, look at it from above, compose it differently, get it in action, get it not in action. Consider your light, background, detail, focus. Consider some of the things we will be talking about in class. You get the picture – you have to use your photos to tell your story.
Your photos should try to tell as complete of a story about your community as possible
I expect you to use the different options in the camera and be creative. I also expect your final photos to tell a story. Your photos should also be properly exposed (have proper amount of light). If you have trouble with the camera, please ask me for help.
What is your personal community? That's up to you. A community is defined as:
- a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. OR
- a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
How do I do it? You will do this "scavenger hunt style," meaning I will be giving you a list of 10 terms and you need to choose 6 of them to photograph. You will then take at least 6 different photos representing each of the 6 terms. Don't just do the same photo 6 times, but show that term differently. Zoom in, get it from a different angle, get the details, zoom out, look at it from underneath, look at it from above, compose it differently, get it in action, get it not in action. Consider your light, background, detail, focus. Consider some of the things we will be talking about in class. You get the picture – you have to use your photos to tell your story.
Your photos should try to tell as complete of a story about your community as possible
I expect you to use the different options in the camera and be creative. I also expect your final photos to tell a story. Your photos should also be properly exposed (have proper amount of light). If you have trouble with the camera, please ask me for help.
Expectations of your final project:
Scavenger Hunt Terms and Rubric:
- A minimum of 36 photos taken for your contact sheet
- Represents your personal perspective of your personal community - it tells a story about it!
- Photos represent your chosen terms
- Meets quality photography traits as discussed in class and as in class rubric
- 3 photos combined to make one final piece in Photoshop (triptych)
- Triptych considers composition and layout, creating a composition that uses the choice of image and layout of image to create a more effective composition
- Tells a more complete story about a situation in your daily life than one singular photo would
- Photos visually belong together and make a statement by being paired together
- Final pieces uploaded to Google Photos Album
Scavenger Hunt Terms and Rubric:
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Final project due: Thursday, october 12 in Google Classroom/Photos
PROCEDURE (we will go over each step in class together):
- Take 36 photos of your personal community (6 photos for each of the 6 terms you choose from the Scavenger Hunt)
- Make a contact sheet (we will discuss how to do this in class)
- Complete the Contact Sheet Reflection:
- Label the terms you used for each photo on your contact sheet
- Mark the 10 photos you think meet the requirements below best:
- Most effective composition
- Represents the term best
- For each of the 10 chosen photos, write 2 sentences about why you selected it based on the above qualifications.
- Choose your final 3 photos
- Combine the photos in Photoshop (we will discuss how to do this in class)
- Upload your final work to Google Photos Album
- Critique
- Complete the self reflection
PROJECT REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT - DUE START OF CLASS ON MONDAY, 10/16
See Google Classroom
See Google Classroom