Line, Color and Texture

To turn in your Line, Color and Texture project, please upload all 6 photographs (2 line, 2 color, 2 texture) to a new post in your blog. The blog post should be called Line, Color and Texture.

Give each photograph a title, and then answer the following questions in paragraph form below:

• Describe the subject matter in the photographs you took.
• What changes did you make to the photos on PhotoShop?
• What photograph do you feel is your best? Why?
• What did you discover about yourself as a photographer during this project?
• If you did this project over again, what would you do differently?

Flickr - Line, Color and Texture

Visit each of these Flickr sites with photographs that emphasize LINE, COLOR and TEXTURE.

Choose a photograph from each site (1 line, 1 color, and 1 texture) and answer the following questions:

1. What is the Subject Matter in the photograph?
2. What shot/angle was the photo taken from?
3. Describe the composition of the photograph.
4. What makes this photograph successful?

Either include the link to the photograph or upload the photograph to your blog post, so I can see what image you are referring to with your answers.

LINE - http://www.flickr.com/groups/linescurves/pool/

COLOR - http://www.flickr.com/groups/catchy/pool/

TEXTURE - http://www.flickr.com/groups/texture/pool/

Shots and Angles, edited.

Today you will use PhotoShop to edit all 8 of your Shots and Angles photographs.  Use the different editing techniques I taught you: Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Exposure, Vibrance, and Photo Filters.  Remember to turn in a REALISTIC looking photograph.  You are using the editing techniques to enhance your photographs to create beautiful art work.  Keep a log in your notebook about what changes you make to each photograph when editing.  Then upload each photograph (in the SAME BLOG POST), title the photograph with what shot or angle it is, and below the photograph tell me what changes you made while editing.

Photos should look like this:

Low Angle

Exposure: +0.03
Brightness: +6
Warming Filter (85): 7%

Learning Shots and Angles

We looked at examples of Shots and Angles today in class and what they look like in photographs.  Today's blogging task will be to find a variety of shots and angles on the web, you will post them on your blog and identify them.  For 3 of the images that you upload, explain why the shot/angle works for the picture, and how the image would change if the shot/angle was different.

Choose 2 from the following:

• Extreme Close Up
• Close Up
• Medium Shot
• Long Shot
• Establishing Shot

Choose 2 from the following:

• Low Angle
• Eye Level Angle
• High Angle
• Birds Eye View
• Dutch Angle

 Choose 2 of the following:

• Rule of Thirds
• Symmetry
• Asymmetry

When uploading your image examples, it should look similar to this:

Dutch Angle 

 

This dutch angle works for this photograph because it helps to enhance the movement of the person and dogs running.  If the photograph was shot using a high angle, the person and the dogs would appear to be smaller and less significant.

American Photography (part 1)

American Photography: A Century of Images provided the viewer with information about the rise of photography in America in the early 20th century and how influential it was in the beginning to our current world today.  When watching this video, I asked you to take down notes about what was being shown.

Please write a response to this video in a new blog post.

In this response, give a summary of the video, provide two examples of how photography influenced America, one thing that surprised you about photography that you didn't know and one question that you have about Photography in general.  Response should be no shorter than 2 paragraphs.

Response is DUE: by beginning of class on Sept. 14, 2011.

What is Art?

"What is Art?"

I've heard this question asked many times. There's no right or wrong answer to the question.  Art is many things and I can guarantee that the answer we give is dependent on our personal relationship to art, and what's we've learned about it.  I would like to ask you a series of questions to find out what your relationship to art is.

Please answer these questions in paragraph form.  No shorter than 2 paragraphs. 

1. What is Art?
2. What is Art to you?
3. Where do you see Art?
4. What is an example of Art?
5. What do you know about Art?
6. What do you want to know about Art?