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Today’s Warm Up: The Scale of Manmade and Natural Marvels That Surround Us

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/09/a-quick-perspective/?src=footer

After viewing the contents of the above tutorial, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What happens when the photographer places two objects that would otherwise not be placed in this environment together? What sort of emotions come up when you look at these images?

What ideas do you get for your own work?

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Today’s Warm Up: Mise en Scene and Photography

http://petapixel.com/2016/10/04/15-principles-mise-en-scene-thatll-help-photographers-tell-better-stories/
After viewing the contents of the above tutorial, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What aspects of Mise en Scene apply to photography? What new insight into camera angles, composition did you gain from this tutorial? How does photography relate to storytelling/film making?

What is one thing you will pay more attention to after seeing this infographic?

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Today’s Warm Up: Dreamlike Photos of Burning Man

http://petapixel.com/2016/09/17/dreamlike-photos-burning-man-victor-habchy/

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

Keeping in mind that the subjects themselves were not photoshopped, what do you think Habchy added to the photos to create these effects? What emotions come to mind when you look at these images? What ideas do you get for your own work?

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Today’s Warm Up: Cityscapes Reflected in Water Drops

http://petapixel.com/2016/09/29/macro-photographs-cityscapes-landmarks-reflected-water-drops/

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

How does scale and proportion play into these images? What kind of lens was needed to make these photographs? What sorts of thoughts come into your head as a result of viewing these images? What ideas do you get for your own work?

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Assignment: Dreams with Scale/Proportion

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Call it revenge of the minis, call it compositing. This week we will make ourselves tiny or huge. Remember the photo series with the giant dog? This week you will be doing something similar. Five photos that are dreamlike, surreal, strange and play with size, scale and proportion in some way. Shoot subjects behind the green screen, then take the green out and you can make miniature people, baseball bats, etc. Think of it as Honey I shrank the photo challenge.

https://photofocus.com/2015/12/13/creating-dream-like-composites-with-photoshop/
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Achieve-Miniature-Effect-via-Photoshop/
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-elements-to-photoshop/creating-a-composite-image/

Five images are due turned into Google Classroom by Friday, 10/7.