Photographer Presentation Condenced

1. Show 5 photos from your chosen photographer.
2. Talk about their life and work- 5 important points about your photographer i.e. how they got their start, what is important about their work, discuss their style, what they photograph and maybe how they photograph. Your info should be based on your Photographer paper.
3. Then show your own top 5 photos on how you attempted their style.

You can put it together however you want ie Powerpoint, Movie Maker, Prezi... or even just put the images in a file and view slideshow and use recipe cards for the info.

It's basically the same thing, just shorter and less formal. The whole thing will be marked out of 15 (5 marks per image, or info bite).  Due Friday (12s) Monday (11s).

This Year in Pictures

It is the beginning of a New Year. We're going to reflect on events that happened throughout 2010 that were where documented with photographs. We are going to take a look at the MSNBC photos of the year together as a class.

View the photos from either site (or both sites)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4999736/
or
http://uk.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTXVJJH#a=1

Here's what you do:

1. Select your favourite "news" photo from 2010.
2. Print or upload to journal/blog.
3. Comment why it is your favourite.
4. Explain what the event is.
5. How does the image document the event? How does the image tell the story? 
6. Identify the subject?
7. What emphasizes the subject and how does it emphasize it? Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing?

Then

1. Select your favourite New Year's Photo.
2. Print or upload to journal/blog.
3. Comment why it is your favourite.
4. Explain what the event is.
5. How does the image document the event? How does the image tell the story?
6. Identify the subject?
7. What emphasizes the subject? Leading lines, repetition, rule of thirds, contrast, framing. 

12s Concentration

http://www.arleighwood.com/?page_id=404

11s Aperture

Depth of Field Site
Digital Photo School
iStock Photo
Define the following, put in your journal:

1. Aperture/F-stop-
2. Aperture Priority-
3. Ambient Light-
4. Artificial Light-
5. ASA/ISO/Film Speed-
6. Bracket-
7. Depth of Field-
8. Exposure Triangle-
9. How to Control Depth of Field-
10. Light Meter- 

Find examples for your journal label each image and guess the aperture settings used on the camera.

Let's try these together...

including your definitions and found examples of aperture and macro/close-up photos.

11s Aperture/Macro Project

You are to explore the aperture through the camera lens while getting super close to your subject. Your subject is up to you, but you are going to get real close to it. Try a few different angles, and subjects. Try different aperture settings also. Since you are really close, your depth of field, or range of focus will be radically short, so you will have a short-short, medium-short and a longer-short depth of field. I would like to see a bit of a range. In the end, print or post a contact sheet and three of your best photos put in your journal.

Due Jan 17th

Capturing Frost and Ice

Styles and Types of Photography

Describing Style

Resemblance from the same artist, movement, time period or geographic location. Topics, treatment and the arrangement of subjects, integration of medium.

Function of Photography

Actuality- photography deals with the actual

Factual- photography if tied to the facts of things.
The frame- the photograph is selected, not conceived
Time- photographs are time exposures and describe discrete parcels of time.
Vantage point- photographs provide us new views of the world.






Types of Photography


Scientific/Documentary- medical, identification, X-rays, NASA space exploration, surveillance, reproductions of art works


Real Life Documentary- Explores how things are, teaches you something beyond the face value of the image usually real life situations.


Interpretive/Metaphoric- Usually fictional, dramatic personal interpretations, metaphoric-


Ethical Evaluation- personal interpretations, make ethical judgments-


Aesthetic Evaluation- Visual aesthetic observations and contemplation. Attention to human form or still life.


Theoretical- Comment on issues about the medium art and art making. Critical of itself.

Assignment: Select 1 photo by your "Photographer". Then describe the style and identify the type of photograph it is. Explain why you think it is this type of photo. Put the photo with your observations in your journal/blog, or print out hand in.