Due March 25, 2:30 pm. 4 pts.

Spring starts on Saturday March 20th. Take 30 photographs that communicate the idea of spring. You can take this in any direction as long as your final images are visually compelling and communicate the change of season. You could choose to do street photography of people enjoying the sunny weather this week. You could photograph the beginnings of buds on trees and the first flowers just beginning to sprout.

Use everything we have covered this semester in terms of composition, light direction and movement.

The midterm assignment is to create a photograph that addresses a social issue by quoting a famous painting or photograph, inspired by Gordon Parks’ American Gothic. 9 pts. Due March 18th.

1 pt. Write a post of 300 words that answers the following questions:

1. In your opinion, what is a social issue that doesn’t get enough attention? It can be any issue you care about and that is relevant to your life. State the issue and three reasons it is important. Include one link to an article or web resource that gives background information about the issue you selected.

2. Then select a famous painting or photograph that you will quote to make the statement of your final image clear and meaningful to your audience.

• What image did you select?
• Why did you select that image?
• What aspects of the image will you quote?
• How will it enhance your message?

Use the category: Midterm Project Statement

Use the comment feature to write a response to your partner’s post. Minimum 150 words.

• Do you agree that they selected an important social issue?
• Will the image they selected be a good vehicle for their message?
• Will the quotation be understood by the audience based on their description?
• Make at least one concrete suggestion to help your partner enhance their message.

Project Deliverables

Week 1 – Due March 11th

• an album of a minimum of 20 images that show your exploration of your idea. You might try to quote different images, experiment with different locations, models, props, ways of shooting including angle of view, depth of field, motion, lighting to explore your idea.

Week 2 – Due March 18th

• an album on Flickr of a minimum of 10 images that shows your thought process and how you got to your final image. For each image add a caption that explains what you did.

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1. I started with an image in my mind of a line of glasses of orange juice broken by a glass with Windex.
2. The line of equal sized glasses was boring so I started to move the glasses so taht they were at varying distances from the camera.
3. I realized the orange juice while an appealing complimentary color as distracting.
4. I had this accident with a piece of red paper and I realized holding a piece of paper above the scene could reflect that color into it.
5. I placed a blue paper on one side to get the blue to reflect on the left side of the photo. this represents how the chemicals do not stay in their container.
6. I added blue paper to the other side.
7. I moved things around to reduce extraneous reflections and checked the focus.
   
   

• a short presentation of the image you are quoting and your final image. Be prepared to show the original image and your final image. You can do this by putting them in one file or Lightroom Classic or Bridge. Your presentation should include:
  a. Some background on your issue
  b. Why you chose the reference image you did
  c. Anything interesting about your process
  d. The meaning and success of your final image
  

Deliverables:

• Album of 20 images from the first week to explore your idea
• Album of 10 images from the second week to refine your idea
• A short presentation of your final image and its reference.

Project Rubric

Examples

American Gothic

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Mona Lisa

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Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel

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The Son of Man

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Resources

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/most-famous-paintings/index.html

20 Famous Paintings From Western Art History Any Art Lover Should Know

https://www.digitalphotomentor.com/20-most-famous-photographs/

http://100photos.time.com

Working outside in the day, freeze the motion of athletes and bike riders, dancers, jumping dogs. 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.

Use a fast shutter speed. If using a camera, use predictive focus AI Servo or AF-C . Use back button focus.

If using a cameraphone, use lightroom or other app that lets you set the shutter speed.

Post 20 shots of at least two different activities to an album on Flickr for a total of 40 shots. 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.

Due March 4, 2:30 pm.

It is strongly suggested to do this assignment outside during the day.

Alternatively, you could do this as a still life assignment.

For cameras and cameraphones

Take 30 photos in which there is something in the foreground and something in the background, something near the camera and something far from the camera. Use perspective to create a strong sense of depth.

Put the 30 photos on an album in Flickr.

Due: February 25, 2:30 pm

Camera

Use shallow depth of field for some of the photos and extensive depth of field for others. when using shallow depth of field, sometimes focus on the object closest to the camera and sometimes to the object farthest from the camera.

Experiment with:

• Focal length- Try using a wide focal length and wide angle distortion for extra drama. If you have a telephoto lens, try getting back from the main subject and experiment with the compression you can get between the foreground and the background. A wide angle lens will tend toward extensive depth of field. A telephoto lens tend toward shallow depth of field.

Cameraphones

If you are shooting with your phone and working outside, use the app Focos to create shallow depth of field in half of your photos.

Goal: Juxtapose two objects to tell a story.

Create a series of 10 photos in which the two objects in the frame tell a story by being together. A slice of onion and a pair of glasses. Two forks aimed at each other.

Don’t forget to compose your photograph so that it is visually compelling as well as telling an interesting story.

Keep the frame clean. The two main objects should be the only objects in the frame.

Put your final 10 photos in an album on Flickr.

Due Thursday, February 18th at 2:30 pm.