Assignments October 2-5

  • Homecoming Photos – Due Monday before class is over

Blog post should be titled “Homecoming Photos” put photos in a gallery 2×4 (if you take the extra credit images put them in the same blog post and you will just have more rows), title each photo in the caption area.

  • Nature in Color – Due Thursday before class is over

Three sets of photos color coded; take different photos of landscapes that are all one color for three different sets of colors. You will turn in your best 3 photos for each color. Upload your best 9 photos to your blog by Thursday, title your blog post “Nature in Color.” 3×3 gallery and title each photo.

  • Forced Perspective – Due Thursday before class is over

Take photos that show a forced perspective. Look through this website to learn how to take great forced perspective photos. Upload your best 4 photos to your blog with titles. Title your blog post “Forced Perspective.” Gallery 2×2.

Examples:

 

Assignments September 25-28

    • 10 Photograph Photo Essay – Due Thursday 

Photo essays tell a story in pictures, and there are many different ways to style your own photo essay. With a wide range of topics to explore, a photo essay can be thought-provoking, emotional, funny, unsettling, or all of the above, but mostly, they should be unforgettable.

A photographic essay is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images. A great photo essay is powerful, able to evoke emotion and understanding without using words. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along your narrative journey.

You will create a photo essay about a “ PERSON…PLACE… or THING.

For example: Day-in-the-life photo essay: These kinds of photo essays tell the story of a day in the life of a particular subject. They can showcase the career of a busy worker or struggling artist, capture parents’ daily chores and playtime with their children, or memorialize the routine of a star high school athlete. A day-in-the-life photo series can be emotionally evocative, giving viewers an intimate glimpse into the world of another human being.

4 Tips for Creating a Photo Essay

  • Creative photography can be fun, sentimental, eye-opening, or gut-wrenching. It can expose a truth or instill a sense of hope. With so many possibilities to share a good photo essay, it’s important to keep the following tips in mind:
  • Do your research. There may be many types of photo essay topics available, but that doesn’t mean your specific idea hasn’t already been tackled by a professional photographer. Look up the best photo essays that have already been done on your topic to make sure the narrative can be executed in a new and interesting way.
  • Follow your instincts. Take photos of everything. Overshooting can be helpful. You never know what you’ll need, so the more coverage you have, the better.
  • Only use the best images. From your lead photo to the final photo, you’re creating a visually vivid story. However, if you use too many images, you risk diluting the impact of your message. Only include the key photos necessary.
  • Be open-minded. Your project may evolve past its initial concept, and that’s okay. Sometimes a photo essay evolves organically, and your job as a photojournalist is to extract the right narrative from the images you’ve captured—even if it wasn’t the original idea.

The photo essay will consist of 10 total photos and uploaded to your blog. Also, you will include a short description of the subject you are documenting. One paragraph minimum. Title your blog post “Photo Essay.” Using Adobe Express, create a collage with your ten images. Below is an example. 

  • Homecoming Photos – Due Monday October 2nd

Take photos of homecoming activities all week. You need to include your best two of the following:

Lunchtime activities

Dress up days

Carnival

Assembly

For extra credit you can also include your best two of the following:

Parade

Sports events

Dummy Hunt

Bonfire

Powderpuff

Crowning

Dance

Monday October 2nd you will edit and upload these photos. Blog post should be titled “Homecoming Photos” put them in a gallery 2×4 (if you take the extra credit images put them in the same blog post and you will just have more rows), title each photo in the caption area.

Assignments September 18-21

  • Zoo Photos – Due Tuesday before class is over 

While at the zoo think about different viewpoints, close up, angles, and more. These images can range from full body shots to head shots. You can choose to show the entire animal in relation to its zoo environment, which can resemble its natural environment, or you can closely frame the animal’s head, turning the image into an informal portrait. Take a lot of photographs so that you can decide which your best 6 photos are. Edit and upload the best 6 to your blog and name the post “Zoo Photos.” Put it in a gallery 3×2 and caption each image.

  • 10 Photograph Photo Essay – Due Thursday 

Photo essays tell a story in pictures, and there are many different ways to style your own photo essay. With a wide range of topics to explore, a photo essay can be thought-provoking, emotional, funny, unsettling, or all of the above, but mostly, they should be unforgettable.

A photographic essay is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images. A great photo essay is powerful, able to evoke emotion and understanding without using words. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along your narrative journey.

You will create a photo essay about a “ PERSON…PLACE… or THING.

For example: Day-in-the-life photo essay: These kinds of photo essays tell the story of a day in the life of a particular subject. They can showcase the career of a busy worker or struggling artist, capture parents’ daily chores and playtime with their children, or memorialize the routine of a star high school athlete. A day-in-the-life photo series can be emotionally evocative, giving viewers an intimate glimpse into the world of another human being.

4 Tips for Creating a Photo Essay

  • Creative photography can be fun, sentimental, eye-opening, or gut-wrenching. It can expose a truth or instill a sense of hope. With so many possibilities to share a good photo essay, it’s important to keep the following tips in mind:
  • Do your research. There may be many types of photo essay topics available, but that doesn’t mean your specific idea hasn’t already been tackled by a professional photographer. Look up the best photo essays that have already been done on your topic to make sure the narrative can be executed in a new and interesting way.
  • Follow your instincts. Take photos of everything. Overshooting can be helpful. You never know what you’ll need, so the more coverage you have, the better.
  • Only use the best images. From your lead photo to the final photo, you’re creating a visually vivid story. However, if you use too many images, you risk diluting the impact of your message. Only include the key photos necessary.
  • Be open-minded. Your project may evolve past its initial concept, and that’s okay. Sometimes a photo essay evolves organically, and your job as a photojournalist is to extract the right narrative from the images you’ve captured—even if it wasn’t the original idea.

The photo essay will consist of 10 total photos and uploaded to your blog. Also, you will include a short description of the subject you are documenting. One paragraph minimum. Title your blog post “Photo Essay.” Using Adobe Express, create a collage with your ten images. Below is an example. 

Assignments September 11-14

  • Lightroom Tutorial – Due Wednesday before class is over

Edit a photo in Lightroom, during the tutorial, using one of your photos that you have taken in class so far. Title the blog post “Lightroom.” Explain what you changed, and why you changed it/why it looks better. Include and title the original image and the edited image. 

Lightroom Overview

Lightroom Edit and Organize Photos

  • Shallow Depth of Field  – Due Thursday before class is over 

Read this article that explains more on shallow depth of field and how to take great photos using this technique. Then you will take photos that show good use of shallow depth of field. The subject can be anything of your choice. You will submit your best 3 photos that show this technique. Blog post title should be “Shallow Depth of Field.” Make sure to title all photos in the captions box and put the photos in a gallery 3×1. Below is an example. 

  • Man vs Nature – Due Thursday before class is over 

You will take photos that show man vs nature. Be creative with the topic and show what the topic makes you think of. You will submit your best 3 photos that show this technique. Blog post title should be “Man vs Nature.” Make sure to title all photos in the captions box and put the photos in a gallery 3×1. Below is an example. 

 

 

Assignments September 4-7

  • Commercial Writing – Due Tuesday Before Class is Over

On your blog,  post 3 commercial photos by a working commercial photographer (look on this website to understand what commercial photography is, there are a lot of other sites as well.). In 250 words, write about: what type of commercial photography is each image, what stood out that made you choose the image, and what did the photographer do well to “sell” the item. Include in the caption area the photographer’s name for each photo. Title your blog post “Commercial Writing.” 

  • Commercial Photography: Due Wednesday Before Class is Over

Photograph 4 different commercial shots. Your commercial photography can be in any of these categories: Sports, food, product, fashion, wedding/event, and wildlife. Make sure that you research the topic/s you choose before so that your images are worthwhile. Below is a link that explains and shows examples and the photography planning sheet that you will need to fill out and turn in with your photographs. Post all four advertising photos to your blog with titles as a gallery (2×2), title each image in the caption area, blog post should be titled “Advertising Photos.” Below are examples from past student work.

  • Sounds in Photography – Due Thursday before class is over

Pick 2 sound words, turn in 2 photossnap, crackle, pop, whistle, rustle, swoosh, bass, crescendo, resonance, boom, echo, screech, rattle, thud, scream, click, shout, whistle, twack, shhhh, shush, tsk tsk, squeak, creak, symphony, boing, chime, ring, silence, tap, knock, hiss 

Instructions: do NOT photograph something making that sounds, rather think about the sound, figure out how the noise would LOOK, and photograph something that looks how the sounds feels.

Title your blog post “Sounds in Photography,” title each photograph in the caption area. The two photos should be in a gallery.

Assignments August 28-31

  • PROJECT CHOICES – Due Thursday before class is over

Choose one of the choices below for this week (upload to your blog with the title of the choice as your blog post, six photos for your choice with titles for each, do as a photo gallery 3×2)

Shoot from the Hip: Shooting from the hip is a great technique and makes a great basis for a street photography project. With your camera at waist level, you shoot upwards, without looking through the viewfinder – so your subjects don’t know they are being photographed and you are rewarded with genuinely candid photographs of people, with the added bonus of an interesting perspective.

The Apple:  Each of you will shoot an apple. In your own way.

Environmental Portraits (with multiple flashes): Take several portraits of someone in their environment, doing what it is they do. Post your favorites and write a good short story about your subject and what they DO.

Musician: Studio Portraits with strobes of musician/musicians in their element.

Couples: Photograph two people and explore the relationship between the two. Try to communicate it visually. In studio or on location.

Animalography: Shoot some great photos of adorable (or strange looking) animals. Possibly use a wide angle lens and get close up for some humorous distortion.

Body Art: Photograph body art and make an eye-catching series to document one of the biggest trends of the decade: TATOOS. You can use your smartphone camera and apps for this project. Be sure to include the app (s) you used to make your creation. Credit to the tatoo artists, if possibly.

Architecture: Go shoot the buildings around your city at all different times of the day.  I bet you’ll find some interesting buildings that you’d never noticed before.

Window and Door Series: Windows and doors are everywhere: we are bombarded with them on a daily basis. Peeling paint, smashed windows, ornate knockers and wonderful windows boxes – this project is sure to yield a great set of photographs

  • Rye High School’s Website Writing – Due Wednesday before class is over

Write a paragraph explaining what you like, dislike, and would like to see added to the website. Make sure that you look through the different tabs on the school website and answer in complete sentences. Submit as a blog post (don’t put a Word Document) and title the blog post “RHS Website Writing.” This is the school website link.

  • Rye High School’s Website – Due Thursday before class is over

Rye High School’s website images need to be updated and changed. You need to take photos of the different classes and projects and things that they do in their class. Please include photos from music, art, ag, project lead the way (Ressel), etc. You will upload your best 9 photos to your blog as a gallery 3×3 by Thursday, the blog post should be titled “Website.” In the caption area title each image.

Assignments August 21-24

  • Camera Angles Writing – Due Monday before class is over

Find a photo from the Internet showing an alternative camera angle and write a  20 sentence writing critique about the Internet photo. Include the photographers name in the caption section while uploading photo. Blog post title should be “Camera Angle Writing.”

  • Alternative Camera Angles – Due Tuesday before class is over

-Take 4 shots of the same subject from 4 different camera angles (from above, below, straight on and tilted). Edit your photos and title them. Blog post title should be “Camera Angles.” Post as a gallery 4×1.

  • Shadows and Light – Due Thursday before class is over

-Photograph 3 photos which show strong shadow and light. Edit your shadow photos and then upload to your blog with titles. Blog post title should be “Shadows and Light Photos.” Post as a gallery, 3×1.

Shadow Examples Below

 

Assignments August 14-17

  • Blog – Due Monday before class is over

Check to make sure you can still log into your blog and that you are part of my class. If not create a new blog, click my class, join a class, and ask to join kacieanglin.

Update the about me widget and make sure you like your theme or change it.

  • Project Choice – Due Thursday before class is over

Choose two of the choices below to take photos of for this week (upload to your blog with the title of the choice as your blog post, six photos for each choice with titles for each, do as a photo gallery 3×2). This should be two different posts with six images for each post.

Please remember to think about perspective, rule of thirds, background, be creative and take awesome photos!

Black and White – All six photos will be converted to black and white

Color – Pick a color and all six photos will have that color is dominant in all six images

Food – Pick any type of food and take six photos up close and personal

Texture – There are tons of different textures in the world, shoot close and fill the frame using six different types of texture

Sunsets and Sunrises – Six of the most dramatic sunsets and sunrises

Emotions – Six photos that show emotions

Sky and Clouds – Sky scapes can be dramatic and stormy or light and beautiful. Capture as big a variety as you can in six different images

Perspective – Shoot all six images from one perspective. This should be a different kind of perspective, not just at eye level.

Trees – Six photos of trees in different lighting

Anything with wheels – Cars, trucks, bikes, motorcycles, trains, there are so many things with wheels. Six images that show artistic view of wheels

 

Assignments December 12-15

Starts with T – Due Monday before class is over

Take photos of items that start with the letter T. Upload your best 3 to your blog in a gallery 3×1 with titles in the caption area. Title the blog post “Starts With T.”

THEME BASED PHOTO SERIES – Due Wednesday before class is over 

Create a series of photographs which work together to conceptualize a theme or story idea. You will upload your best 6 photos to your blog in a gallery 3×2 with titles in the caption area. Title the blog post the name of your theme that you chose. Check out this link to get some good ideas for your project.  https://photographyicon.com/photography-themes/

Movie Poster – Due Wednesday before class is over

Create a movie poster from a photograph that you took. Make sure that you can see the title. Be creative. Use Adobe Express to put the poster together. Title your blog post “Movie Poster.”

Assignments December 5-8

  • Vibrant Colors- Due Monday before class is over

Take photos that show vibrant colors. You can edit these photos to add more saturation or vibrance to enhance the colors. Upload your best 3 photos Monday before class is over in a gallery 3×1 with titles in the caption area. Title the post “Vibrant Colors.”

  • Airport Museum – Due Wednesday before class is over

We will visit the airport museum to take photos of different artifacts. Edit and upload your best 6 photos by Wednesday in a gallery 3×2 with titles in the caption area. Title the post “Airport.”

  • Smiles – Due Wednesday before class is over

Capture people in their natural environments with their natural smiles. Still pay attention to lighting, background, and point of view. Upload your best 3 photos Tuesday in a gallery 3×1 with titles in the caption area. Title the post “Smiles.”

  • Silhouettes 2 – Due Thursday before class is over

Make usual photographs look different, or add extra meaning to them, by simply cutting out some silhouettes on a sheet of paper and taking a shot through it. You can choose harmonic combinations, like shooting nature through shapes of animals, or go for contrast and shoot some highly technogenic landscapes through shapes of trees. Edit and upload your best 3 photos to your blog in a gallery 3×1 with titles in the caption area. Title your post “Silhouettes 2.” Below are some examples.