• Comments 3 – Due Monday before class is over

• Lighting: Due Thursday Before Class is Over

• Comments 2 – Due Tuesday before class is over

Comment on your favorite four photos from the photo 1 elements of art or principles of design photos or advanced commercial photos or sound photos. Please go through different student’s work to view more than four. Your comments need to include the photography and art language that we have talked about so far. This is not a one word or one sentence comment. Take your time and think about the other person’s work, what spoke to you, what did you like, what could be included to make the photo more dynamic, etc. Make sure that your comments are thought provoking and helpful. Type out your comments on four of your favorite photos on the blog. Then in Microsoft Word, copy each of your comments and the photo that you commented on, include the photographers name, and upload your word document to your blog as Comments 2.

• Composition Photos – Due Thursday before class is over

We will go over more with the composition rules in class using the videos below. You will take four photos at 50mm to show the use of composition and how it will change the look of your photo and your thought process while taking photos. Upload your best four photos to your blog as a gallery 4×1, blog post title should be “Composition Photos.”

Composition Video 1

Composition Video 2

Composition Project

 

• Comments 1 – Due Monday before class is over

Comment on your favorite four photos from the advanced photos class for their shadow photos and/or photography 1 texture photos. Please go through different student’s work to view more than four. Your comments need to include the photography and art language that we have talked about so far. This is not a one word or one sentence comment. Take your time and think about the other person’s work, what spoke to you, what did you like, what could be included to make the photo more dynamic, etc. Make sure that your comments are thought provoking and helpful. Type out your comments on four of your favorite photos on the blog. Then in Microsoft Word, copy each of your comments and the photo that you commented on, include the photographers name, and upload your word document to your blog as Comments 1.

Elements of Art Photos – Due Thursday before class is over

Read the following about the The_Elements_of_Art and this article

Take photos to show the use of each of the elements of art. Make a gallery 3×2 of images in your blog. Post your gallery, write a title in the caption area saying which element of art each photo is. You should have a photo for line, shape, color, space, texture, and pattern (6 photos total), and title the post “Elements of Art Photos.” Edit your photos before uploading them to your blog. Below is how your post should look when submitting.

Principles of Design Photos – Due Thursday before class is over

Read the following about the The_Principles_of_Design and this article.

Due Thursday before class is over. Take photos to show the use of each of the principles of design. Make a gallery 3×2 of images in your blog. Post your gallery, write a title in the caption area saying which element of art for each photo. You should have a photo for balance, rhythm, unity, movement, contrast and emphasis (6 photos total), and title the post “Principles of Design Photos.” Edit your photos before uploading them to your blog. Below is how your post should look when submitting.

This article explains both the elements and the principles.

 

• Composition – Due Monday before class is over

Read about what makes strong composition in a photograph and what catches the viewers eye. Find  12 sample photos online which show good composition. Make a gallery of images 4×3 in Edublogs. Post your gallery and in the caption area write out the name of the composition rule. Do this for each image include the photographers name to give them credit for their work. Title your blog post “Composition.”

Composition Tips 1

Composition Tips 2

Composition Tips 3

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• TEDTALK: HOW PHOTOGRAPHY CONNECTS US – Due Tuesday before class is over

Watch this Tedtalk on how photography connects us and on your blog make a post summarizing, critiquing, judging and evaluating what you got out of watching the video. Title the blog post “How Photography Connects Us.” Have at least 3 paragraphs.

 https://www.ted.com/talks/david_griffin_on_how_photography_connects

• TEXTURE – Due Thursday Before Class is Over

Go outside in brighter light and photograph 5 photos that show texture. 

Edit your photos in Photos and post 3 of your photos to your blog in a gallery, 3 columns, as “Texture.” Title each photo in the caption area.

In the same blog post: Find one photo online which shows amazing texture. Write a one paragraph critique explaining why you think this is such a successful photograph and why you chose it. Be sure to use academic language, proper grammar and sentence structure. In the caption area give the photographer credit.

• Inspirational Slide Show – Due Monday before class is over

Create a slide show or video using iMovie titled PHOTOS THAT INSPIRE ME. Under each photo you selected explain why this photograph inspires you. Make sure to include the photographer’s name. Choose 15 photos using the links below (these website have no copywriter issues, are large images so they will be clear, and give you the name of the photographer. Submit your slideshow here.

Royalty Free Site 1

Royalty Free Site 2

• Create Blog – Due Monday before class is over

Make a blog for your photo work and critique writing. http://edublogs.org/

You must join the class blog: https://kacieanglin.edublogs.org… FIRST BEFORE YOU PICK A TEMPLATE.

Follow the link for help on adding the class blog http://help.edublogs.org/own-student-blog/ when it asks you to search for the teacher type in kacieanglin

Include your blog title and your first name on your blog.

• How to use blog Due Monday before class is over

Write an about me section as a TEXT WIDGET on your blog. Follow the link for help on adding a text widget http://help.edublogs.org/widgets/#Adding_Widgets

• First Post Due Monday before class is over

Make your very first post a photograph of something you enjoy, title the blog post “First Post” and title the photo in the caption area. You will also write a sentence below the photograph explaining why you chose that particular photo.

• Gallery – Due Tuesday before class is over

Create a gallery with 4 images, titles, 2×2, with a sentence explaining why you chose the images

• Camera Obscura – Due Wednesday before class is over

We will use this website to learn more about the history of photography, what the camera obscura is, and how to make one

Then, with a partner you will make your own camera obscura 

• Nature Prints – Due Thursday before class is over

“Develop” an image using the nature prints paper. Take a photo of your image and upload it to your blog. Title the blog post “Nature Prints” and in the caption give your image a title.

• Camera Functions Due Thursday before class is over

Read this article about basic camera functions.  http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/camera-exposure.htm

Summarize in your own words what ISO, Shutter Speed, and Aperture are. Find an image to show each and explain why you chose the image and how you believe it shows the technique (not from the article). Use Microsoft Word. Title the assignment: “Camera Functions.” Use academic language and remember the rules of grammar.

• History of Photography

We will watch this VIDEO in class. Students will fill out the video note taking paper during the video.

• Inspirational Slideshow 

Create a slide show or video using iMovie titled PHOTOS THAT INSPIRE ME. Under each photo you selected explain why this photograph inspires you. Make sure to include the photographer’s name. Choose 15 photos using the links below (these website have no copywriter issues, are large images so they will be clear, and give you the name of the photographer. Submit your slideshow here.

Royalty Free Site 1

Royalty Free Site 2

Royalty Free Site 3

 

Example:

 

Photo by: Kübra Arslaner

This photo inspires me because I love to read and love organization.

The lighting that is hitting the books gives them an interesting look and shows off the books.

I also really like how the books are lined up, organized, and have color.

All of these inspire me.

49. Documentary Photography Project – Due Monday December 13 before class is over

If you can’t get it to post to your blog you will have to email the completed project to me, kanglin@district70.org

You will present/show your project in class next Tuesday or Wednesday during finals

Create a Spark presentation with the following included: at least 6 photos that you took, 6 other photos (can be photos you took, if from the internet or magazine you must include the photographers name), titles for each photo, voice over telling the story, music, transitions, creativity in telling the story.

You will be graded on photo quality and having 12 photos (70 points), having the photographer authors (20 points), titles (10 points), story in voice over and shown in photos (40 points), creativity (10 points).

50. Critique – 7th Hour Due Wednesday before class is over/ 8th Hour Due Tuesday before class is over

(Copy these questions and answer them for each student that presents, before class is over save this and upload it to your blog as “Documentary Project Critique)

Students name being critiqued:

Name of documentary project:

What emotion/s does the documentary bring out and explain:

What caught your eye and explain:

Is this documentary successful in telling their story, explain and give an example from the project:

 

Documentary Photography 

Students consider the function of social-documentary photography. They will research Dorothea Lange’s documentary projects, and create their own photo essay about a subject of interest to them. Students will document an area of struggle in their life or take on a struggle to document within their community. We will watch this video on photojournalism and this video on Colorado Women Taking on Hunger and discuss the different types of documentary photography and what it is. Here are some tips on taking documentary photography. 

47. Social Documentary and Dorthea Lange – Due Monday 

First we will look at the photographs below from Dorthea Lange and discuss those. Dorothea Lange and more on Dorothea Lange

Research the term “social documentary” and draft a definition. Also research two related terms currently in use by artists, art historians, and art critics: “concerned photography” and “compassionate photography.” Write out your definition and explain. Also research on the Internet three images by Lange that were part of social-documentary projects she undertook (for example, additional photographs she took while working for the Farm Security Administration). Include those three photographs and what you learned about her documentary photography. Title the post “Dorthea Lange Writing.”

48. Choose Topic – Due Tuesday before class is over

Choose and research a topic of struggle in your life or take on a struggle to document within your community that will be the subject of your own social-documentary project, presented in the form of a photo essay (a series of related photographs focusing on a specific topic that is intended to be viewed collectively, often with captions). 

The photo essay was popularized by Lange and other photographers during the 1930s. Photo essays by Lange were published in various magazines and reports from the 1930s to the 1960s. What is the difference between a photo essay and a single photograph about the same topic? What can a photo essay do that a single photograph cannot? Why is photography especially well suited for the essay format?

Students discuss topics for their photo essays and brainstorm ideas for how to visually express them. Students also brainstorm interview questions for individuals they may photograph as part of the project. 

Write a plan summarizing the key story you hope to tell in your photo essay and strategies for doing so, keeping in mind your definition of “social documentary.” Using the storyboard ideas below, brainstorm and create your story. You will include at least 6 photos of your own and 6 more photos that can be from the internet, magazines, or drawings (include who the photographer was). Upload to your blog as your topic and include your plan. Title the post “Documentary Photography Topic.” This should be a direct post, not a Word attachment. 

Planning Guide

Storyboard

49. Documentary Photography Project – Due Monday December 13 before class is over

If you can’t get it to post to your blog you will have to email the completed project to me, kanglin@district70.org

You will present/show your project in class next Tuesday or Wednesday during finals

Create a Spark presentation with the following included: at least 6 photos that you took, 6 other photos (can be photos you took, if from the internet or magazine you must include the photographers name), titles for each photo, voice over telling the story, music, transitions, creativity in telling the story.

You will be graded on photo quality and having 12 photos (70 points), having the photographer authors (20 points), titles (10 points), story in voice over and shown in photos (40 points), creativity (10 points).

45. Spark Lesson – Due Monday before class is over

We will go over how to use Spark and then you will make a little quick video and upload it to your blog. This is for our next project. Title the blog post “Spark.” This is the link to the website, you will sign in using your Adobe account. Your video for class will include a title slide, three images of photos that you have taken in class so far, on one of the images include some kind of text, and include a voiceover with one of the other images.

46. Impact of Photography – Due Thursday before class over

We will watch the movie Flags of Our Fathers, you need to turn in the permission slip to watch the movie as it is rated R. 

If you did watch the movie Flags of Our Fathers, you will write about your thoughts on the movie, how you think the photograph impacted the world, and how you think photographs in general help or change or impact the world. You will be graded on ideas and content and conventions. This should be five paragraphs. Title the post “Impact of Photography.” This should be posted in the blog, not a Word document.

If you did not watch the movie Flags of Our Fathers with us, you need to find three different photos that have impacted the world, country, or nation, and explain the importance of the photograph and the importance of photography (include the photos in your post and name the photographer). You can use this website. You will be graded on ideas and content and conventions. This should be five paragraphs. Title the post “Impact of Photography.” This should be posted in your blog, not a Word document.

42. Comments 11 – Due Monday before class is over Comment on your favorite four photos from the photo 1 still life object photos or advanced photos. Please go through different student’s work to view more than four. Your comments need to include the photography and art language that we have talked about so far. This is not a one word or one sentence comment. Take your time and think about the other person’s work, what spoke to you, what did you like, what could be included to make the photo more dynamic, etc. Make sure that your comments are thought provoking and helpful. Type out your comments on four of your favorite photos on the blog. Then in Microsoft Word, copy each of your comments and the photo that you commented on, include the photographers name, and upload your word document to your blog as “Comments 11.”

43. Still Life Toy Photographs – DUE THURSDAY BEFORE CLASS IS OVER We will look at the examples.  It’s interesting to photograph still life subjects using unexpected approaches. This takes an object out of its normal context, so that you can see it in a different light. In this case, you’re going to make a formal portrait of a toy. You will upload your best 6 photos by Thursday before class is over, with titles, in a gallery 3×2. Title your blog post “Toy Photos” Before you begin think about the following

• Do you want to convey the significance that a plaything from your childhood has for you, or will you choose a random toy and portray it in unexpected ways?
• Consider the portrait’s background. Will it provide context, color, and visual interest or will it be a neutral setting that highlights the subject?
• As you compose your image, experiment with lighting, viewpoint, balance, and emphasis to reveal the toy’s story.

44. Different Point of View – Due Thursday before class is over Be creative and show me different points of view, lower or upper. Be artistic, any subject or angle which will be interesting for the viewer will be accepted. Photographs in Black and white or in color are welcome. Upload your best 3 photos by Thursday before class is over, with titles, in a gallery 3×1. Title your blog post “Different Point of View.” Below are some examples.