STRONG PHOTOGRAPHY – AP

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/09/ominous-storms-photographed-in-black-and-white-by-mitch-dobrowner/

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

What sort of mood is created in these images? What role does scale and proportion play in these images? What do you get in the texture contained in the clouds.? What ideas do you get for your own work?

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
2. Shoot/Edit for the Shutter Assignment.
   1.  Five finished photos due TODAY!
   2. Turned into Google Classroom
3. Next Assignment: Texture Face. Five images that explore different sides of portraits using texture. All photos must be original, no downloaded backgrounds, etc.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/05/denis-cherim-coincidence-project/

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

After looking at these images, what feelings come up in you as you look at these? How much shooting did the photographer have to do to come up with these? What ideas do you get for your own work?

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
2. Shoot/Edit for the Shutter Assignment.
   1.  Five finished photos due TOMORROW.
   2. Turned into Google Classroom

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/06/aerial-south-africa-johnny-miller/

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

Visually, in these images, what is the difference between rich and poor? How does the distance from which these photos were taken affect how we see the subject? What happens when we put two contrasting  ideas next to each other? What two contrasting ideas could you put next to each other in your own photographic work?

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
2. Shoot/Edit for the Shutter Assignment.
   1.  Five finished photos due on FRIDAY.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/06/a-photo-series-featuring-an-oversized-dachshund-and-her-owner-adventuring-around-brooklyn/

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

How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion? How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?

What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this?

 

Lightroom is a huge program to learn at once, so I’m linking to this great course on Lynda.com. You might have to be logged into the district Lynda channel to see this content, but this is your headquarters for Lightroom.

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
2. Strong goes over Editing Photos in Lightroom
3. Get together with your CFGS and Critique your Intro Photos.
   1. Due TODAY, turned into Google Classroom.
4. Vote on your period’s Intro Photos
   1. Period 1
5. Shoot/Edit for the Shutter Assignment. Five finished photos due on FRIDAY.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/07/2016-summer-firefly-photos/

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

What does the term ‘composite image’ mean to you? How were they able to get so many fireflies in the frame at the same time? What is created with so many of these shapes, what does it do to the nature of reality presented here? What ideas do you get for your own work, especially in the realm of slow shutter?