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Photo 12- Contemporary Photographer

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Contemporary Photographer Criteria

1. Select a photographer who is currently living and working in the medium. Find a photographer who you are interested in. This is likely the most challenging and important of the steps; find a photographer that inspires you.
2. Research several using the internet. Find your top 5 five favourite. Write 5 important points about each and put in your journal with an image for each and narrow it down to one.
3. Write an article about the photographer's life, the medium, photostyle and offer an opinion reflection and commentary of their work in 500 to 750 words. Include a bibliography.
4. Email your photographer, let them know that you are interested in their work and you are doing a project for school based on their work. Ask them for some information. Print out your email to them and their response.
5. Share your contemporary photographer with the class any way you want. You are to articulate information from your article to the class verbally, and visually.
6. Photograph in their style, create a contact sheet and five 5 x 7 prints and one 8 x 10 print.

To select your photographer, I want you to try something: First write a list of people who you admire of all of the people you know personally. Select the top three and point form write five points of why you admire them. From the list, do a Google search based on the qualities you admire in people ie. "courageous photographers" or "photographers who inspire change". Just try it and let's see what you come up with.

When you find your photographer, make sure there is some information on them even a resume can be helpful, but it will help to get more. And you will need to find at least five photos of their style.

If that doesn't work for you,
Photography Now- visual list of contemporary photographers.
Yahoo Photo Masters- index of photographers
Museum of Contemporary Photography- look up collections and also browse by artist. (I love Colleen Plumb.)
Magnum Photo
CAPIC
PPOC
Lisa Pritchard Agency

Random/Theme Roll 1 per month

We are going to start the year long Random/Theme Roll assignment this month. Each month you are to take a "roll" approximately 20-30 photos of a theme. The topic is up to you, but they should be all based on a common theme of your choice. So each month, think of a theme and go photograph it with any format/style of camera you want to use. Could be digital, BW or colour film, polaroid, pin hole.

You will hand in a contact sheet of all of your images and put two images/prints in your journal.

Surveillance- Journal

1. Please post one of your best BW Surveillance photos in your journal.
2. Comment why it is your best and reflect on your surveillance experience.
3. Find a surveillance image from the Exposed exhibit at the TATE Modern and put it in your journal.
4. And finally Google Earth your house and put a Google Earth photo in your journal from there.

Photo Vocabulary- Camera Terms & Aperture

Camera Terms
Define the following in your journal, explain what the setting does:

M (Manual)-
Av (Aperture Priority)-
S or Tv (Shutter Priority)-
P (Program)-
Auto-
Face/Portrait Mode-
Mountain/Landscape Mode-
Runner/SportsAction Mode-
Flower/Still Life Mode-


Photography Terms
Define the following and find photo examples for your journal:

Ambient Light-
Artificial Light-
ASA/ISO(film sensitivity)-
Depth of Field-
Exposure-
Exposure Triangle-
F-Stop-
Panning-
Slow Shutter

Surveillance2- Fort Langley

Capture the world as it unfolds without intervention, just point your camera toward the action and press the trigger. This time, be more involved in shaping the story either with your choice of framing, how you direct attention to your subject, or reveal in the background. Create mystery and curiosity in your images.

 

Grade 12s/11-2 Double Exposure

 

You can either double your own film, or switch your film with someone in the class. To double expose, you can rewind the film and leave the tab out, or pull it out to re-load it in your camera.

 

1st Photograph people in action. 2nd Photograph patterns.

 

Develop your film, print a contact sheet, and five 5 x 7 prints the prints should have good contrast, exposure, focus, and no technical flaws.

 

Grade 11-1 Create Mystery

1. Frame- look through something to see your subject.
2. Place- your subject in a curious place in the photo, make the viewer look for them.
3. Direct- attention to your subject with lines.
4. Contrast- your subject, create anonymity with silhouettes.
5. Repeat- the subject to draw attention to itself.
6. Make sure the background tells something about the subject.

 

Surveillance- Reflection

Look over your photos and select your 5 favourites.
Put your top 1 in the share folder title it with your name. Then in word, insert the image and answer the following questions:

Reflect on your experiences.
Where did you set up your camera first?
Why did you select the area to survey?
How long did you remain in the same area?
What sort of images did you capture?
Were you satisfied with the results? Why or why not?
Describe your favourite image; explain why it is your favourite.
How did you feel while you were taking the photos? Anxious, awkward…

Exposed1: Surveillance

Today you are to go out to take surveillance photos around the school. Find a space that you find interesting either the background is compositionally, structurally compelling, or there is significant action there that may tell a story. (Remember that changing rooms, bathroom and the staff room are off limits). Set up your camera (like Lorca Di Corcia) and wait for something to enter the frame. stay in the same place for half of the class 20 mins then change your position. Take 25+ frames and when you feel like you have something interesting, come into the class and download them.

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera

Shizuka Yokomizo, Stranger No. 2 1999

Last summer I visited the Tate Modern Gallery in London. I saw an exhibition that inspired this project. Since its invention, the camera has been used to make images surreptitiously and satisfy the desire to see what is hidden. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera examines photography's role in voyeuristic looking from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day. It includes pictures taken by professional photographers and artists, but also images made without our knowledge on a daily basis through the proliferation of CCTV.

Check out the web site: Tate Modern
and also see: The Tate Modern Channel
Make sure you view Philip Lorca-DiCorcia and Laurie Long.

In class we will explore various Photographers who have explored the world candidly as voyeurs and photojournalists to document life as it happens without prejudice.


Robert Frank


Henri Cartier Bresson

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

Laurie Long


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Nan Goldin

Photoshop Portrait

We are going to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to edit and alter your portrait. You are going to copy parts of other portraits onto your face to make a new combined face. To do this, you will learn basic tools: rectangular marquee, lassoo, quick mask, how to cut & paste, move tool, dodge and burn, image adjustments.

First open the photograph taken of you in Adobe Photoshop, then open another image from your group that you want to blend parts onto your photo.

We will then use the recangular marque tool to select an area of your photo to copy. Then selcet the photo of you and Edit>Paste. Use the move tool to adjust the size and move into place.

Welcome

Welcome to Photography11/12 Elective.
This is the class blog to keep students up-to-date with assignments, links, resources and events. Please visit often to find out what's going on.

11- Toning

You are to tone 4 prints any size (5 marks each) :

• Single colour
• Masked area
• Dou-tone (2 colours)
• Hand-tint

11s Colour CD Cover

Elements of Design:
Line, Shape, Form, Texture

You are going to take a series of high contrast B/W photos for a CD cover. The music is up to you- could be a remake of an already existing CD for your favourite band, or a CD cover for an independent band, or for an imaginary band. Your images should be distinctly inspired by a musical genre or style of music. Your series will be photographed with black & white film, but printed monochromatically using the colour printer. Each of your images should include at least one of the Elements of Design: lines, shapes, texture, form, colour (but hard to do in BW film, that will happen in the darkroom).

Colour Darkroom:
Print a BW contact sheet, make sure you have included all of the elements of design. Then print four 5 x 5 prints. They are square to fit the proportions of a CD cover, so consider the format when you are shooting, you will have to crop off part of your photo. You are to print your photos on colour paper with the colour processor. You are to use colour filters to create mono-chromatic (one colour) colour. Try four out of six colours of the colour wheel. Remember that the colour on the enlarger will make the opposite effect on your print. Adding a yellow filter creates a purple print.

Book/Concentration

Plan out your book. Figure out your focus. Define your theme in a thesis statement. organize your ideas frame by frame. Describe, draw out each frame to clearly communicate your intention and how you are going to capture your theme in a series of frames. Consider the composition, backgrounds, lighting, framing, angles, camera techniques to best explore your topic. Your book will consist of a cover and eight pages that all relate to the theme. Each image will have compositional integridy to stand on it's own and relate to the series as well.

Depth of Field

Camera Lens/ Aperture
The word aperture refers to how large the opening of your lens is.

Aperture is defined by f/stops.

The smaller the f/stop number, the larger the opening ( like an f/2.8).

Depth of Field
Is the amount of the image that is in focus.

3 Things that control Depth of Field
1. The Aperture. The larger the opening, the more light can get in, and the more blurry the background.
2. The size of the lens. Shorter the lens, the more that will be in focus.
3. Distance to subject. The closer to the subject, the less amount in focus.

Try setting your camera to Aperture priority mode (it’s usually indicated by a capital “A” or an “Av.” Now, set the f/stop to the lowest number that your lens can go. Then set it to a middle aperture number. Then to the highest it will go...

Book/Concentration

Consider a theme for your book/concentration project. Brainstorm topics and develop your ideas look for photo examples for inspiration. Print at least one contact sheet of 25 to 35 images. Your book should be at least 8 images with a cover (concentration=12 images). You are to assemble your series