Painting with light II

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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…