American Photography (part 3)

We finished our last segment of American Photography, learning about 1960-1999.

Answer the following questions:

1. What event from this segment was most eye-opening for you? Why?
2. How have photographs changed the way we see the world?
3. What impact have digital photos had on the world?
4. If this video were to continue on to 2011, what events would be covered? What new technologies would you see?

Digital Collage

It's time to turn in your digital collage!  Remember to Flatten your collage, and Save As a JPEG. Then upload your collage to your blog, give it a title and tell me a bit about it.

Answer the following questions in paragraph form:

• What imagery appears in your collage? 
• What types of changes did you make to the layers of your collage?
• How did your idea for your collage change as you were working on it?
• What new ideas did you try out in your collage?
• What is most successful in your collage?
• What would you change and why?
• Anything else?

Then, save a JPEG copy of your digital collage to the To Print folder.

Quarter 2... and your ideal world.

Welcome to Quarter 2!  This quarter we will dive deeper into the world of digital art by manipulating photos on PhotoShop.  But first please answer this question on your blog:

Is there anything related to photography that you would like to know that I haven't yet taught you?

Now.... let's start with getting ideas for our first project in Quarter 2.

Answer the following questions:

1. If you lived in your ideal world, what would it look like?
2. Where would it be?
3. What colors would you see?
4. What objects or things would be common?
5. What objects or things wouldn't be common?
6. What type of people would live there?
7. How would people interact with each other?
8. What else?  Tell me something unique about your perfect world.

Documentary Photography Project

Well, you did it.  The 1st quarter is almost over.  Let's celebrate by uploading your series of Documentary Photographs!

Please upload all 6 photos and give each a title.

Then, at the end write a paragraph that answers the following questions (do NOT answer for each individual image):

• What did you photograph for your documentary photography series?
• Why did you choose to document this?
• What did you want to reveal or show about it?
• What did you learn about what you documented during this process?
• What is your favorite image and why?

These photos and the paragraph must be uploaded by the end of class on Friday, Nov. 4th.