Assignments

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__Photo challenge!__** take photos of your weekend environment! and edit and drop in drop folder Create __**5 folders**__ in your drop folder and put **5 //good// examples** of each of the following **compositional techniques**: Leading Line Framing Different points of view Reflections and shadows**
 * For Monday/Tuesday August 24**
 * Portfolio
 * Rule of Thirds

Check out the //gallery// section of this website.**AC Photo** This is a high school photographer from Baltimore MD. __Write a thoughtful response__ to his work in your skb.Use the photo/art vocabulary we have been focusing on.What appeals to you, what compositional techniques does he use? etc. http://www.acphoto.net/
 * __Sketchbook assignment__**

Join **voicethread**. Make a thorough comment about your own photo following the guidelines.Use art terms.
 * [|http://voicethread.com/#u82303] **[[file:Voicethread.doc]] **complete by next class !** **If you have trouble accessing your group click on //voicethread// on the navigation window to the left.**

**Sept 3**
http://digital-photography-school.com/21-settings-techniques-and-rules-all-new-camera-owners-should-know
 * __Sketchbook check__**.//**I** **will collect them!**// Make sure you have all the above written responses documented in your skb. Including the following

Complete **folders for compositional techniques**: framing, point of view, rules of thirds, leading line, reflections and shadows.


 * Choose one photo you think is best and describe it put it in your wiki. Be sure to resize it first!**


 * Voicethread** assignment #2  Choose **three** photos that interest you and tell us why and what in the composition is at work (framing, rule of thirds, pt of view ex) Don't comment on your own photo**.**If you have trouble accessing your group click on //voicethread// on the navigation window to the left.

Sept 7
Take at least 5 portraits using the techniques mentioned in the web site below []
 * Portraits:** Read **"Here I am taking my own picture"** and **Pixels are like cupcakes"**. In your skb write what you learned.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text
 * Read** the article about the iconic portrait of an Afghanistan girl taken in 1985 and notate in your skb

"Show Us your world" 3 strong photos from your life
 * Sept 12**
 * Final project** demonstrating your understanding and ability to integrate the compositional techniques we have been covering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats#Raster_formats
 * Sept 17-21**
 * Read and notate** in your skb the following article on digital camera file formats

//__**Go over Unit review sheet and make certain you have completed all criteria.**__// Write a reflection on the unit Lens as Eye. What did you learn? What were the challenges.

Go over //**light painting**// wiki page, look at videos, links and come up with more ideas do try in your group on Wednesday. Notate them in SKB
 * Sept 23**

**Sketchbook is due with all reading assignments complete and final reflection on unit Lens as Eye done! (see rubric)!!**

 * Sept 25**

Light Painting and Night photography
Remember to drop your **groups' light painting images** into group folder in drop folder!

During the break using the same settings try **night photography** and bring to class next week! Put three on your **wiki page using tables**!


 * __In your skb__** do a page or two with images from your **light painting** classes. Write what is necessary to know. What you experimented with and how you might use this again.

On your **wiki page** put **three** of your groups light paintings that you like as well as **three** night photographs __Upload at least 5 onto your f**lickr account**__

**Your quarter grade is based on the following**:
wiki page content and layout** //(1st photo,portraits,home,light painting,night photography xtra: alphabet, animoto)// flickr uploads sketchbook with all assignments thoughtfully addressed light painting and __night photography__ responses on wiki**
 * quality of compositional photos in drop folder: compositional techniques, portraits, home
 * voicethread comments

**Night Photography are due on wiki Oct 14!**
**Found Alphabet photography!** []
 * Xtra credit! if finished early then go to this website and create your name using this technique**
 * and animoto video of your photos !**

** Unit 2: The Masters/ History of Photography **
[|Masters of Photography.doc] Masters of photography list [|List of Photography list.docx]

In your skb write a page about your photographer. Interesting facts, quotes, images etc.

Master presentations are due with your 5 responses to your photographer!
block H Thursday Oct 22**
 * block b Wed Oct 21

__In your skb__ do a page on your photographer with at least 3 images of their work and your response to their type of photographs. Write the names of the photographers who most impressed you. What did you like about their work?**
 * October 26


 * After watching the the video //The Genius of Photography//**
 * Interview a family member about their first experiences with photography. Ask when they took their first photos? Do they remember what type of camera they used? Was it a Kodak? Ask who their favorite photographer is. Put this information __in your skb.__**

**Unit 3: November 1 Photojournalism Unit**

 * Check out this photojournalist response to pollution in China**
 * [] write a response in your skb**
 * Bring your camera with batteries charged!!**
 * Dress warm as we will be going into the village tomorrow! all permission slips must be in!**


 * November 9-13**
 * In groups complete your visual response to Bai Xin Zhuang village by Friday**
 * **__EDIT__ your village fotos/ delete those you will not use/ name.jpg those you will**
 * **Put your photos in a folder in your //drop folder// titled "village photos" and upload at least 10 of your finest to flickr create a slideshow on your wiki page**
 * **put your best photos in folder marked "best village photos" outside of your own folder**
 * **finished group( calendar, photoessay or book) work goes in a folder "Finished village projects"**
 * **__in your skb__ write a reflection on your assignment in the village Bai Xin Zhuang use words and images**


 * Check out the Lens [] pick one photo essay and __in your skb__ write about what is most visually interesting and engaging and what compositional techniques were used**.
 * Sketchbooks due first class next week Nov 16**

Unit 4 Photoshop Unit has begun "Recreating Reality"
Drop in the //Melon Man// (selection tools) and //Many Me's// (transform tool) assignments**
 * Nov 18** **In the drop folder in your folder you need to make a folder entitled "photoshop"

Look up Maggie Taylor www.maggietaylor.com/ //and// Jerry Uelsmann http://www.uelsmann.net/ check student responses on the wiki page entitled "recreating reality" Write a reflection on the two artist models with words and images. What about their work appeals to you? How are they similar and different in style?
 * Prepare for the //Surreal Self Portrait// by doing the following __in your skb__

Look up surrealism and write a definition. Create sketches for your own surreal self portrait. Make sure __all images are taken by you__. In the composition include __3 symbols__ that represent YOU.**

//**Aperture**//