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Portrait of a place-Select a park or playground near you. You will take photographs in the same location two weeks in a row. Photograph your location at two different times of day or in two types of weather to capture the place and the people who use it in a series of 8 final photos.

Complete project and presentation due March 23rd. 10 pts.

1. 40 photos in an album labeled Shoot 1 on Flickr due March 9th at 12 noon.

Portrait of a Place-Your shots should cover a wide range of approaches: long shots to close ups, people including at least one person in motion, animals and plants. Each photo should use light and composition in compelling ways. Show the full range of the techniques that we have tried in class.

2. Second set of 40 Photos in an album labeled Shoot 2 on Flickr due March 16th at 12 noon.

3. 8 final photos adjusted in Lightroom in an album labeled Midterm on Flickr due March 23rd at 12 noon.

4. A brief presentation- 3 to 5 minutes – to the class of your project on March 23rd.

4 pts. Due March 2, 12 noon.

If you have the means to do some light painting ie a camera AND a tripod, create thirty photos with light painting.

If not:

Photographing outside during the day in good light, take a minimum of 30 photos where there is something in the foreground and something in the background. Something interesting that is. In each shot, there should be something of interest near the camera and something of interest far away from the camera. Each photo should have a sense of space. Fill the frame! No empty skies or long stretches of ground in the foreground.

Put the 30 photos on an album in Flickr. Send your two best photos to the group.

Create 20 photos that freeze motion and 20 that blur motion.

Frozen motion:

Working outside in the day in good light, freeze the motion of athletes and bike riders, skate boarders, dancers, jumping dogs, a moving subway car. Try at least two different types of subjects ie soccer players and bikers, kids on swings and dancers. Capture the decisive moment. The soccer player when their leg is fully stretched out in a kick, a bike rider doing a wheelie. Don’t be shy. Fill your frame with the action.

If you are working outside in bright light with your cameraphone, it will select a fast shutter speed. If you are working with a camera, use a fast shutter speed.

Blurred Motion:

Each shot MUST have something sharp and something blurry.

For blurred motion you must find a way to secure the camera. If you don’t have a tripod and are working with a camera, rest it on a surface and use the camera’s timer.

If using a cameraphone, you will need to use an app. I recommend slow shutter.

You will still need to secure the camera otherwise the whole image will be blurry.

If you are working with a camera phone, you can make a tripod from a coffee cup or small box like a tea box.

https://fixthephoto.com/diy-iphone-tripod.html

Post 40 shots to an album on Flickr. Please don’t include all of the times you missed: shots out of focus, the back of receding bike riders, etc. Just your best work. Send your best two to the class group.

Due Feb 23, 12 noon.

4pts. Due Feb 9, 12 noon. Post to OpenLab.
Review the Steve McCurry video:
http://petapixel.com/2015/03/16/9-photo-composition-tips-as-seen-in-photographs-by-steve-mccurry/

Look at the work of the photographers listed below. Then select one photograph by one of these photographers that really speaks to you and that you think is visually engaging. Once you have selected a photograph, write a 300-word post on OpenLab about the photograph. 

Category: Student posts>HW1-Composition

1. Identify the photograph with the name of the photographer and the name of the photograph. Write a short description of the subject matter and location. Then, identify the intention of the photographer. What is the purpose of the image? What is the mood or feeling of the photograph?
2. Select three of the formal elements from the Steve McCurry video that are most important in the photo that you selected. Write a second paragraph describing the photographer’s use of those three compositional principles. 

1. Rule of Thirds
2. Leading Lines
3. Diagonals
4. Frame within a frame
5. Figure to Ground
6. Fill the Frame
7. Dominant Eye
8. Patterns and Repetition
9. Symmetry

How do these elements help create the mood or feeling of the photograph?
Please include a link to the photograph so I can easily find it or describe it very clearly. 

1. Suzanne Stein
https://www.suzannesteinphoto.com
Pick from either New York Street One or Two

2. Dawoud Bey
http://www.dawoudbey.net/
Harlem Stories

3. Thomas Holton
http://www.thomasholton.com/
The Lams of Ludlow Street

4. Michael Kenna-
http://www.michaelkenna.net/gallery.php?id=14
New York

Imagine that you have a hula hoop. Put it on the ground (during the day in a place with good light) and do not step out of it. You could also think that you are in one of those social distancing circles that have been drawn in some parks. Take 10 photos without leaving the circle. Use every strategy that we have discussed in class: angle of view, close ups and long shots, negative space, filling the frame, diagonal lines, leading lines, to make the most interesting and varied photos possible from that one place.

Find two more spots and repeat for a total of 30 photos.

Post to Flickr and put in an album.

Due Wednesday, February 16 at 12 pm noon.