Oct 31st ~ Happy Halloween!

Continue to work on your Surrealism project and your clone stamp image (kids w/ stickers). Don't forget about your 50 images for the flesh & blood assignment (due on the 13th of Nov.). Finally, make sure your homework assignment is completed (due today!!!!).  The assignment is on the sidebar of the blog. Write your response in Evernote in a new note titled (10/31 homework response).

Of you have questions, ask your SILK (Sean).

Oct. 30th

Focus:  Write about your experience shooting this week.  What problems & successes did you have?  Did you have any technical issues?  If so, how can you correct the problem for the future?

Objectives:

• Download your images for Surrealism.
• Create a contact sheet and post to blog (Post title: Surrealism Contact Sheet)
• Using multiple images, create a surreal photo inspired by the Surrealism art movement.  
• Focus on strong selection (appropriate feathering) & use of the clone tool (demo to occur).  
• Consider manipulating color or working in black & white to create a more believable final image.
• Create a "How it was made..." file similar to the ones created by Alyssa G. http://www.chasing-tomorrow.com/

Closure:  What is the function of the clone tool?  How does the hardness of the brush effect your cloning?

Surrealist Photography

Oct. 28th

Focus:  In your own words, describe opacity?  

Objectives:

• Download your images for the Texture assignment.  (if you haven't already done so)
• Create contact sheets and post them to your blog (post title:texture contact sheet) (Due Oct 21 - 10 points off for every week late)
• Explore the work of the Holga & Diana cameras
• Select four texture images to overlay with four images from your previous assignments to recreate the look of the Holga & Diana cameras. (Will demo assignment....)
• Print 2 images (that are approved by Mrs. Cream) and mount onto tile using acrylic gloss medium.  

Closure:  What does it mean to feather a layer?

Surrealism

Surreal Photography by jaimecream

Surrealism - Wendy James

Surrealism - Wendy James

http://wendyejames.com/category/black-and-white/

Homework (Does a photographer have a responsibility to intervene?)

Read the "confessions" of different photojournalist.  Write a one page response answering the question... Does a photographer have a responsibility to intervene?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jul/28/gutted-photographers-who-didnt-help

Due in Evernote: 10/31

Oct. 24th

Focus:  
Go the below website and look at the work or Richard Avedon.  This series of work in titled "The American West."  In a few sentences, describe how this work makes you feel?  What do you think about the style of the work as compared to the content or meaning of the work?
Richard Avedon - "The American West"

Objectives:

• Download your images for the Texture assignment.  (if you haven't already done so)
• Create contact sheets and post them to your blog (post title:texture contact sheet) (Due Oct 21 - 10 points off for every week late)
• Explore the work of the Holga & Diana cameras
• Select four texture images to overlay with four images from your previous assignments to recreate the look of the Holga & Diana cameras. (Will demo assignment....)
• Print 2 images (that are approved by Mrs. Cream) and mount onto tile using acrylic gloss medium.  

Closure: After viewing the Diane Arbus power point, in a few sentences, describe how this work makes you feel?  What do you think about the style of the work as compared to the content or meaning of the work?

Diane Arbus by jaimecream

Oct. 23rd

Focus:  
Check out this website with Holga images.  Which image do you find most interesting and why? 

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/02/gallery_holga_top_10

Objectives:

• Download your images for the Texture assignment.  (if you haven't already done so)
• Create contact sheets and post them to your blog (post title:texture contact sheet) (Due Oct 21 - 10 points off for every week late)
• Explore the work of the Holga & Diana cameras
• Select four texture images to overlay with four images from your previous assignments to recreate the look of the Holga & Diana cameras. (Will demo assignment....)
• Print 2 images (that are approved by Mrs. Cream) and mount onto tile using acrylic gloss medium.  

Closure:   Sepia Tone - A reddish brown color derived from the ink sac of the cuttlefish, Sepia.  

How do create a faux sepia toned look in Photoshop?

Oct. 22nd

Focus:  Explain the difference between the dodge, burn, and saturate tools.

Objectives:

• Download your images for the Texture assignment.  (if you haven't already done so)
• Create contact sheets and post them to your blog (post title:texture contact sheet) (Due Oct 21 - 10 points off for every week late)
• Explore the work of the Holga & Diana cameras
• Select four texture images to overlay with four images from your previous assignments to recreate the look of the Holga & Diana cameras. (Will demo assignment....)
• Print 2 images (that are approved by Mrs. Cream) and mount onto tile using acrylic gloss medium.  

Closure:  Copy the definition into Evernote.

Acrylic medium:  fast-drying medium containing pigment suspension in acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water, but become water-resistant when dry. 

Explain why it is important to keep brushes wet when using 

an acrylic medium?

Holga & Diana

Holga & Diana by jaimecream

Oct. 21st

Focus:
Write about your experience shooting this week.  What problems & successes did you have?  Did you have any technical issues?  If so, how can you correct the problem for the future?

Objectives:

• Download your images for the Texture assignment.  
• Create contact sheets and post them to your blog (post title:texture contact sheet) Due today (no exceptions)
• Explore the work of the Holga & Diana cameras
• Select four texture images to overlay with four images from your previous assignments to recreate the look of the Holga & Diana cameras. (Will demo assignment....)
• Print 2 images (that are approved by Mrs. Cream) and mount onto tile using acrylic gloss medium.  

Closure:

Check out the work of Johnathan Bailey who works primarily with the Diana camera.  http://www.jonathan-bailey.com/pages/galleries.html

Texture

Oct. 18th

Focus:  You are taking a picture outside in bright daylight.  Your image is bright white.  What is happening and how should you adjust your camera?

Objectives:

• Download your look book images and create a contact sheet (post to blog - Post title: Look Book contact sheet) DUE TODAY! NO EXCEPTIONS!
• Master selection & quick mask tools.
• Explore Dafont.com for appropriate font choices.  
• Create an original Look Book compositions.
• Implement the rule of thirds.

Closure:  In your own words, explain the definition between implied/visual texture and real texture.

FINISHED????

• Not happy with your own photos?  Go out and take MORE!!!!  This is the beauty of digital photography...  You can take as many photos as you want for free!!!
• Continue to work on blog design and header design.
• Check out the following site http://art-support.com/photographers.htm Look at the work of professional photographers.  This can influence your own work, inspire, and allow you to think about photography and art in a new light. 
•  Check out this link for interesting conceptual photographs!
  Conceptual Photography

Texture

Textures and Pattern Photography Power Point

Oct 17th

Focus:
A photographer wants to take a picture of a woman at sunset.  The sun is behind the woman and she is facing the photographer.  What will be the likely result of this image?

Objectives:

• Download your look book images and create a contact sheet (post to blog - Post title: Look Book contact sheet) DUE TODAY! NO EXCEPTIONS!
• Master selection & quick mask tools.
• Explore Dafont.com for appropriate font choices.  
• Create an original Look Book compositions.
• Implement the rule of thirds.

Closure:
In your own words, describe what it means to rasterize your font and how it effects your font layer?

Extra Credit

High School Montage (one pic with high school stuff)

Rock Concert

Dilapidated Mansion (Adam's Family)

A Tree in Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring

Cramped apartment

"Country" style home

Classy Restaurant

Psychiatrist office

Principal's office

A restaurant

Teenage girls bedroom

An abstract image about eating disorders (control, trapped)

Sterile environment/operating room

13th Birthday

Best Buy/Apple

Action Movie poster montage

In line somewhere (Post office maybe)

Livingroom with boxes (warm and comfortable space) 

Oct. 16th

Focus:  A photographer wants to take a photo at night.  Their camera is set at 1/60th of a second and the aperture is set at f-2.8 (the lowest it can go).  The light meter says the photo needs more light.  What two things shouldthe photographer do?

Objectives:

• Download your look book images and create a contact sheet (post to blog - Post title: Look Book contact sheet) DUE TODAY! NO EXCEPTIONS!
• Master selection & quick mask tools.
• Explore Dafont.com for appropriate font choices.  
• Create an original Look Book compositions.
• Implement the rule of thirds.

Closure:  Check out this link for interesting conceptual photographs!
Conceptual Photography

Oct. 14th

Focus:  Write about your experience shooting this week.  What problems & successes did you have?  Did you have any technical issues?  If so, how can you correct the problem for the future?

Objectives:

• Download your look book images and create a contact sheet (post to blog - Post title: Look Book contact sheet) DUE TODAY! NO EXCEPTIONS!
• Master selection & quick mask tools.
• Explore Dafont.com for appropriate font choices.  
• Create an original Look Book compositions.
• Implement the rule of thirds.

Closure:  Explain what it means to feather a selection.

Finished???

• Not happy with your own photos?  Go out and take MORE!!!!  This is the beauty of digital photography...  You can take as many photos as you want for free!!!
• Continue to work on blog design and header design.
• Check out the following site http://art-support.com/photographers.htm Look at the work of professional photographers.  This can influence your own work, inspire, and allow you to think about photography and art in a new light. 

  

Oct. 11th

Focus:  Was this image taken with a fast or slow shutter speed?  What speed was most likely used 1/60, 1/4, or 4)?

 

Objectives:

1. Download your Shutter Speed Images to your documents.

2. Create a contact sheet Titled :Shutter Speed Contact Sheet

3. Post Contact sheet to blog (Post title: Shutter Speed Contact Sheet)

4. Select 6 photos (3 fast shutter speed & 3 slow shutter speed)

5. Edit and post photos on blog (Post title:  Shutter Speed)

6. Complete "faux slow shutter" image.

7. View "look book" Ppt & demo & plan your idea.

 

Closure:  Work on your 5 questions for the Look Book assignment.

Oct. 10th

Focus:  Check out the archives on this website for the NY Magazine's Look Book.
http://nymag.com/nymag/strategist/look/archive/

Objectives:

1. Download your Shutter Speed Images to your documents.

2. Create a contact sheet Titled :Shutter Speed Contact Sheet

3. Post Contact sheet to blog (Post title: Shutter Speed Contact Sheet) DUE TODAY!!!!

4. Select 6 photos (3 fast shutter speed & 3 slow shutter speed)

5. Edit and post photos on blog (Post title:  Shutter Speed)

6. Complete "faux slow shutter" image.

7. View "look book" Ppt & demo & plan your idea.

Closure:  Create 5 interesting questions for three different people for your look book assignment. (Post to Evernote & finish for homework.)

Finished??? 

• Not happy with your own photos?  Go out and take MORE!!!!  This is the beauty of digital photography...  You can take as many photos as you want for free!!!
• Continue to work on blog design and header design.
• Check out the following site http://art-support.com/photographers.htm Look at the work of professional photographers.  This can influence your own work, inspire, and allow you to think about photography and art in a new light. 

The Look Book by jaimecream

Oct. 9th

FYI - DUE NOV. 13th 

(50 images for your Flesh & Blood Assignment).

Focus:   The photographer wants to create a light painting.  The shutter speed is set at 1/30.  Before the photographer can finish their light design, the shutter has closed.  What can the photographer do to give themselves more time to light paint.  

Objectives:

1. Download your Shutter Speed Images to your documents.

2. Create a contact sheet Titled :Shutter Speed Contact Sheet

3. Post Contact sheet to blog (Post title: Shutter Speed Contact Sheet) DUE TODAY!!!!

4. Select 6 photos (3 fast shutter speed & 3 slow shutter speed)

5. Edit and post photos on blog (Post title:  Shutter Speed)

6. Complete "faux slow shutter" image.

Closure:  What shutter speed was used for this photo? Fast or slow?

Finished???

• Read more about shutter speed:http://digital-photography-school.com/shutter-speed#ixzz2NKOhFmjA 
• Continue to work on blog design and header design.

•  Check out the following site http://art-support.com/photographers.htm Look at the work of professional photographers.  This can influence your own work, inspire, and allow you to think about photography and art in a new light. 

Oct. 8th

Focus:  Read this scenario and respond with option for the photographer.

The photographer wants to  capture an image of a child swinging at night.  He/she wants a crisp, clear, and in focus image of the child.  The shutter is set at 1/2000,  the aperture is set at f5.6, and the ISO is set at 800.  The light meter says that there is not enough light.  What are his/her options.

Objectives:

1. Download your Shutter Speed Images to your documents.

2. Create a contact sheet Titled :Shutter Speed Contact Sheet

3. Post Contact sheet to blog (Post title: Shutter Speed Contact Sheet) DUE TODAY!!!!

4. Select 6 photos (3 fast shutter speed & 3 slow shutter speed)

5. Edit and post photos on blog (Post title:  Shutter Speed)

Closure:  What is the difference between the magic wand and the quick select tool?

Assignments/Blog Posts to Date:

1. 5 star Photo- Day 1 Photo

2. Day 1 Photos - Contact Sheet

3. 5 Star Photo- Day 2 Photos

4. Day 2 Photos - Contact Sheet

5. Angle of View - Contact Sheet

6. Angle of View (6 Images Corrected)

7. Celebrity Edit

8. Thursday Edits

9. Aperture

10. One Printed & Corrected Image for Photo Show

11. Aperture (6 edited images)

12. Faux Depth of Filed

13. Quick Mask Black & White)

Oct. 7th

Focus:  Write about your experience shooting this week.  What problems & successes did you have?  Did you have any technical issues?  If so, how can you correct the problem for the future.

Objectives:

1. Download your Shutter Speed Images to your documents.

2. Create a contact sheet Titled :Shutter Speed Contact Sheet

3. Post Contact sheet to blog (Post title: Shutter Speed Contact Sheet) DUE TODAY!!!!

4. Select 6 photos (3 fast shutter speed & 3 slow shutter speed)

5. Edit and post photos on blog (Post title:  Shutter Speed)

Closure:  Fast or Slow Shutter Speed?

Oct. 4th

Focus: Fast or Slow Shutter Speed?

Objectives:

1.  Download Aperture images.
2. Create a contact sheet and post to blog (post title: Aperture - Contact Sheet).
3. Correct 6-10 images & post to blog (post title: Aperture)
4. Select your best image (you may choose up to two if you can't decide).
(View demo & discuss printing)
5. Only after demo, print your best image 10"x7.5" 300 resolution.
(View demo & discuss mounting)
6.  Mount image to display board.

7. Final Blog changes due Friday for blog grade.

(FYI- All assignments to date will be graded on Friday.  Anything not turned in will reflect a zero in Power School)  Please check powerschool, as grades have been recently updated.

8. Create a faux shallow depth of field image using quick mask.

9.  Using quick mask, select an area of one of your own original images, and change the rest of the image to black & white.

Remember: This image (feel free to print this picture and keep in your camera bag as a reminder!)

Closure:

Fast or Slow Shutter Speed?

Shutterspeed by jaimecream

Oct. 3rd

Focus:  Review... What is the function of Aperture?

Objectives:

1.  Download Aperture images.
2. Create a contact sheet and post to blog (post title: Aperture - Contact Sheet).
3. Correct 6-10 images & post to blog (post title: Aperture)
4. Select your best image (you may choose up to two if you can't decide).
(View demo & discuss printing)
5. Only after demo, print your best image 10"x7.5" 300 resolution.
(View demo & discuss mounting)
6.  Mount image to display board.

7. Final Blog changes due Friday for blog grade.

(FYI- All assignments to date will be graded on Friday.  Anything not turned in will reflect a zero in Power School)  Please check powerschool, as grades have been recently updated.

8. Create a faux shallow depth of field image using quick mask.

9.  Using quick mask, select an area of one of your own original images, and change the rest of the image to black & white.

Closure:

Read these photo tips on this blog.  doeadeery.blogspot.com (photo tips)

Oct. 2nd

Focus:  Review closure from yesterday.

Copy the following definition into Evernote.

Quick mask protect any areas of an image that you do NOT want changed when making adjustments to your photograph.

Objectives:

1.  Download Aperture images.
2. Create a contact sheet and post to blog (post title: Aperture - Contact Sheet).
3. Correct 6-10 images & post to blog (post title: Aperture)
4. Select your best image (you may choose up to two if you can't decide).
(View demo & discuss printing)
5. Only after demo, print your best image 10"x7.5" 300 resolution.
(View demo & discuss mounting)
6.  Mount image to display board.

7. Final Blog changes due Friday for blog grade.

(FYI- All assignments to date will be graded on Friday.  Anything not turned in will reflect a zero in Power School)  Please check powerschool, as grades have been recently updated.

8. Create a faux shallow depth of field image using quick mask.

9.  Using quick mask, select an area of one of your own original images, and change the rest of the image to black & white.

Closure: See Yesterday's Closure