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


Weegee

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.

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