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The sun will set tonight at 7:06pm. Starting about 7:15, set your subject against the remaining bright areas of the sky to create a silhouette. The sky needs to be much brighter than your subject. Try for a minimum of 10 shots with a range of subjects.

Put all of your silhouette shots in an Album on Flickr. Select your personal best and put a small version of it on Openlab with a description of how you captured the image. Include your photo settings: Shutter Speed, Aperture and ISO.

Category: Lab: Week 2 – Silhouettes

1 pts. Find a subject. It could be a bridge, a dog or a person, a tree, a flower or something else altogether. (Try to stay away from street furniture.) Take a series of photos of that subject from different angles and with different cropping until you get two photos of the same subject that really look different.

The goal is to take two photographs of the same subject that are different in composition and mood. Make your subject look big in one and small in another, symmetrical and asymmetrical, cute and fierce, pretty and ugly, strong and delicate just with the crop and angle of view that you use.

Repeat for a minimum of 8 subjects. Select a range of subjects from huge such as a bridge to small such as a bee.

Once back in the classroom, download your photos and create an album in Flcikr with your final 10 pairs of photos.

Select the two photos of your most radically transformed subject and upload medium versions of them to a post on OpenLab with a description of the angles and other compositional devices you used to transform the subject.

Category: Lab: Week 2- Angle of View

2 pts. Take as many photos as you need to to create one visually engaging photo for each of the following compositional principles:

• Rule of Thirds
• Diagonal Lines
• Leading Lines
• Patterns (or breaking the pattern)
• Symmetry
• Figure to Ground
• Contrast of light and dark
• A frame within a frame

Put your 8 final photos in an album on Flickr. Label each file with the category above.

Share your album with your group. Each group will select the best photo for each category and create one post as a group on OpenLab with a gallery block to display the best example of each of the 8 categories. Please label each image clearly with both the name of the photographer and the compositional principal it demonstrates.