STRONG PHOTOGRAPHY – AP

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/category/photography/page/4/

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

What was Octavious trying to say with this image? What made him make the image? How can art be a reaction to something that is happening on a national, political level? Have you ever used art to make a political statement? What do you believe strongly enough in that would create a piece of art as a reaction to something outside of yourself?

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
2. Get together with your CFG’s and Critique the Shutter Photos you made last week.
   1. Critique questions Images: Diana – Dylan – Jalen – Jo – James
3. Check out the requirements for this week’s assignment. Texture Face.

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the shutter photos you made last week. All of the work that was turned in last week is up now on the website.

Step 2: Each person should be able to answer these questions about each photo in your CFG. Write down the group’s thinking on each of these questions for each of your photos. Post the answers in a google doc and turn it into Google Classroom. Critiques are due on Tuesday.

1.What type of slow shutter speed technique did the photographer employ? Is there more than just a special effect in this image? What do you think the photographer is trying to say about the world with these photographs? How can you tell? Even with the slow shutter speed technique, is the photo’s subject in sharp focus?

2. What could be done to make this photo stronger?  What is the photographer trying to say about the subject here? What could be done to make that more clear?

3. What other type of photography is at play here besides slow shutter speed? (Think portrait, street photography, fashion, etc.)

Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions.

Critiques are due on Tuesday.

This week you will be making five portraits that use texture as a metaphor, a way of commenting on and talking about a person’s personality. All photos that you turn in must be your own. No downloaded content allowed. Note in the example above I used blending modes in Photoshop to create this double exposure image. You can do double exposure, but you can also apply different textures to someone’s face. Think paint, plaster, makeup, etc.

FIVE images due on Friday, 9/23.