Photo I Projects First semester

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Subject to Change Instructor has Final say in the Event of Conflict

(Based CCSD   C. E.F)

Quarter One first Nine Weeks

Aug 29 – Sept 10

Classroom procedures Handout: Release, Photo form, Lab Fee

100 pts  lab fee. 100 pts expectation signed

Objective: Classroom procedures: Cameras (pawn shops). Lab Fees, dark room tour, Standard operating procedures, Safety, Syllabus Expectations.

 

No school Sept 5 Labor day       

 

Sept 8th & 9th    Photogram

 
Photogram / Homework / Negs

Power Standards:

11.12.1   Formulate research questions and use below design to gather Information

6.12.1    Organize Ideas

6.12.3     Write a composition

6.12.4     Revise writing to improve word choice

 

Homework              Due Week of Sept 26th

A.  Go to a web browser look up photogram.

B.  Type out names of two photogram Photographers, and print out 4 thumbnails (small images) 2 for each artist.

C.  Do a two page double spaced type written paper on:

 the photogram process. Its origins, and the photographer.

 D. Bring to class no less then 2 of each of the following objects:

Opaque  (Cannot see through), translucent (Foggy, Smokey) and transparent (See through) objects. We will use these to create a photogram. It may also help to think about objects that are, patterned, plain, cut, torn, (smooth, Ragged).Some materials featured in photograms have been, cotton, wool, sugar, sheets.

 

 

 

 

Sept 12 – 23                          Sept 22 Open House 6:30 pm

The Camera, Lens & Film Functions

School Shoot:

 No School Oct 29 Nevada Day

Vocabulary: Aesthetics, Battery compartment,  Sweet 16, Snap shot, Picture Plane: Composition – tight, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, Flat images, Shutter / Aperture, Sweet 16, Focal Point, Depth of Field, Weighting, Bracketing. Seeing: Shadow & Light, Avoid "Flat' images. Film reels, spools Tanks, Negatives, and Film developer, stop bath, fixer, orbit bath, photo flo, thin, dense, opaque, transparent, translucent/ Film Dev chart

 

Objective: Demonstrate & Test: Camera Functions: Battery compartment /Film Loading / ISO / Film speeds / Film Wind Lever / Viewfinder / Shutter / Shutter release / Aperture/ Lens, 50 mm, zoom, wide angle, hot shoe, flash, self timer.

 

Objective to photograph: One Object, Bracket exposures 6 times from smallest F# up. Then bring in camera all next week

 

Materials:

Handout: Exposure chart, before shooting checklist

Students bring Cameras & Journals to class, film, Paper, Film tanks, spools, scissors, Film & paper chemicals.

 

Assessment: According to Power Standards and Blooms Taxonomy

Knowledge: Evidence of Learned facts: Test on Vocabulary

Sweet 16, Bracketing, Aesthetics, Film Loading, ISO setting.   100

Comprehension: Understanding of concepts, methods:

Student shall exhibit camera functions when photographing       20

Application: Evidence of Use of Information:

Evaluation of Negatives, should be rich                                       20

Analysis: Recognition of assumptions
If proper f# negs rich, Bracketing should show 3 values              20
Synthesis: Putting information together
Will be evident in negative processing                                         20
 
Note Evaluation is applicable to all shoots and subject to change  

Assessment: Test on camera and film function

Sept 26 – Oct 24     Scenic Nevada / Desert Gardens due Oct 1
 Materials: Bring Cameras all week

Light shadow exposure

 

No school  Oct 31 Staff Dev

 

Quarter Two Second Nine Weeks

 
Oct 26  – Nov 10               No late work excepted
         Photo Shoot:   Sports, Landscape/ Architecture, Animals, People
Objective: Student will photograph 9 images in the categories above. Students will keep images tight and unusual. No snapshots please. Check your exposure meter for enough light.
 Production: 1ea.  4x5
                                             F #                    Shutter Speeds
Indoors:With flash sync    8                             60

                    Without flash           Smallest                       15, 30, 60

Make sure you have plenty of light if indoors, add light if necessary

 

Outdoors     Sunny                     8                                   125, 250

                     Cloudy                    smallest                        60, 125

 

Native American Month: Showed Video on Native American Photographers Matsura and Curtis

              

Nov 10  -  Dec 3

        Photo Shoot: Repetition**********************************  

Power Standards 4 through 9:12:1

 Objective: Students will be able to discover repetition that is not set up or created by you. It needs to be something that occurs naturally.

 

Vocabulary: Balance: Symmetry, Asymmetrical. Negative, Positive Space, Repetition

Production: Notes, worksheet

 

 

Dec. 4 - 15

SHOOT Numbers as an Image***********************

 

Vocabulary: Bore sighting, weighting

Materials: City by Numbers by Stephen T. Johnson

 

Objective: Students will be able to Demonstrate selective focus, and viewing as they find images that look like numbers. They must occur naturally and cannot be contrived. Students will also demonstrate point of focus in their search for Images that represent the numbers 1 - 8.  Students will bracket each number three exposures either shutter or aperture for a total of 24 shots.  Dodging

Assessment Criteria:

Work should have a clean composition, suggestive imagery, cleanliness, and presentation. Acceptable contrast and grain, center of interest (bore Sighting), selective focus.

              E.O.Q.

Bracketing (8 of 24)       20

Composition                   20

Creativity/ Originality    10

UFO's                             15

Completion Registration/Presentation  15

Journal( shoot & print)       20

 

Nov 11th no school Veterans Day

November 28 -31  Thanksgiving Vacation

Dec 17 – Jan 2   Winter Break 

 

Semester Exams Jan 17 -20

Jan 17 P. 2&4  Then mini classes full day

Jan 18 P. 1&3

Jan 19 P. 6&8

Jan 20 P. 5&7

 

 

Week # 17 – 18                                                       Dec 16 – Jan 13
Classroom Collage due Jan 13

Objective: To be done at home. Students will display stopped and blurred action, for both daytime and nighttime images.  Students are to make a collage at least 12 x 18” (poster board) and no larger using magazines, newspapers to compose the collage.

 
Photo Shoot: Night Shoot/Motion
F stops & shutter speeds are not for Snow
Exam Review

"Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult- the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight."

Edgar Degas

 

Objective: students will explore Nighttime & Motion photography. Discover the effects of motion and light of an image

Criteria:

Bracketed all NIGHT shots 5, 10, 15, seconds on B setting or if you have Tv setting use this and set at the equivalent of 5, 10, 15 seconds.

12 Nighttime Shots: “B” setting 5, 10, 15 sec. Smallest F #

3 Jiggle: move or tap the camera especially effective with close up subjects

3 have someone draw with a flashlight in complete darkness.

3 Photograph a car from the distance and let it travel across the picture plane

3 Photograph a car from the distance and pan it. Follow it with camera.

 

Daytime Motion Shots:

3 Blur: shoot a car going across picture plain f 4, 5.6, 8   @ 30

3 Pan:  shoot car by moving the camera with the motion of the subject. F 5.6 @ 125, 250, 500

3 Photograph a lit building at night “B” 5, 10, 15 sec Smallest F #

3 your choice

Assessment According to E.O.Q.

 

Jan 13 Staff Development Day

 

Week # 21, 22,                                  Jan 6 – Jan 14

 

Exam Review / Makeup quarter work 

 

Semester Exams Jan 17 – 21        

 

 

___________End of First Semester______

2nd Semester

2nd Semester students are required to hand in three working prints along with their final print and a contact sheet that has a minimum of 18 shots or you need to re-shoot

 

 

Week # 23, 24,25                                          Jan 20 – Feb 11

 

Photo Shoot:

Master Work Reproduction

4 artists, 2 paintings per each, bracket by 3 = 24

 

Objective:

Power Standards:

11.12.1   Formulate research questions and use below  design to gather Information

6.12.1    Organize Ideas

6.12.3     Write a composition

6.12.4     Revise writing to improve word choice

6.12.5     Edit

 First: Take 2 pictures of ea. Artist

Bracket by 3 as per below, for a total of 6 pics

 

 If shooting outdoors:

Cloudy - Smallest F#  30, 60,125 Use a tripod or a stabilizer 

Sunny - F# 8 @ 60, 125, 250     

 

If shooting indoors: Use your light meter, make sure you have enough light or your pictures will not come out.  Use the...

Smallest F#  and 15, 30, 60,125 shutter Use a tripod or a stabilizer (rice Sock)

 

 

Find two paintings that you like from a “master” artist (VanGogh, Matisse, Rembrandt, Munch etc…) Look @ famousartreproductions.com     

 

The following is the research based stragety to improve student achievement in reading.

1. Read About a Master artist

 

Before reading: What is this about, What you need to find out, What is your purpose, What speeds should I use.

During Reading: What have I read about, Do you understand it, if not what should you do. What is the author saying and what do you think about it.

After reading: Have I learned what I needed to learn, if not what should you do. How could you use what you read, How could you connect with what you already know

 

 

2. Do a two pg. double-spaced paper about one artist. Add the pictures to your paper do not copy from the net; I would like you to write the paper using your own words. The following must be included:

Artists name, Date of birth, Socio-economic background (rich Poor), family background, parental careers, other professions before and or after art career.

 

3. Recreate the work of art as closely as possible, pay attention to poses, lighting, clothing, and background.

 

Objective:

Master Artist

Create a scene from two famous works of art and photograph it.  Use real props, people to recreate the work. Keep it simple; use a work of art that is simple in content. Example The Mona Lisa (you cannot use this ex.) you would set up a person, clothing, lighting and background similar to Mona Lisa. Use a painting from a master work of art.

 

Materialsdeveloping & printing chemicals, printing paper, 8X10" mount board, mounting tissue, print of a work of art and bio.

 

Assessment Criteria: 2-page research paper on artwork, and artist, Completion of photograph according to the E.O.Q. and criteria

 

 

Week 27                                                  Feb 13- 21

Critique

Objective As a class critique students will be asked to look at and critique or explain a photograph. Tell if it is successful, does it look like the painting and break it down according to the elements and principals of art.

 

 

Week # 28                                               Feb 20 – March 6

Scenes from Summerlin

 

Objective: To photograph beautiful scenes of Summerlin. (Parks, Schools, People, Architecture.) Look for different perspectives and viewpoints. Look for beauty!

 

Keep images tightly cropped

 

Produce 2:  8x10 prints

 

Week # 28,29                                            Mar 7 – 11

 

 

 

End of 3rd quarter************************************************

 

Week # 30                                        Feb 23 – Mar 11

******************Photo shoot: People

Objective: Photograph people. Do not take snapshots!

Photograph people using good light sources. Take pictures with unusual light, backlight, Sidelight etc... Make sure you have enough frontal light or image will be to dark. Take pictures of people that show or tell a something about that person. Take pictures in unusual settings.

 

Week # 32,33,34                                        Mar 11 – April 11

 

*****************Photo Shoot: Your choice

Objective: Selection, Creativity, Framing, Composition, Lighting, Gesture. All essential for this project.

 

 

 

Week # 35 April 10 – April 14           Spring Break     

 

APRIL 21 Photo show  5 – 7 pm

 

Week # 36,37,38                                          April 21– May 9

**************************************Photo Shoot: Hands

 

 

 

Objective: Depict a variety of ages and portrait a sense of feelings or expressions by photographing hands. You should photograph ages from:

Newborn to 12 years, 3 shots bracketed x 2

13 to 25,  3 shots bracketed x 2

30 to 50,  3 shots bracketed x 2

50 on up, 3 shots bracketed x 2 

 

You should use a variety of light sources (top, side, indoor, outdoor, bright, diffused, dim) to show different textures and lines of skin. Look to show some sort of emotions, or expressions, of hands.

Pay attention to keeping your shots tight and in focus, you will only be able to get to certain closeness before you cannot focus clearly.

 

Materials:  developing & printing chemicals, Printing paper, 8X10" mount board, Mounting tissue, print of a work of art and bio.

 

Assessment Criteria: Tight image   35   Clean/Crisp print    35   Presentation   30

Week # 39, 40, 41                                        May 12 - May 30

End of 4th Quarter

Photo Shoot: Portraiture, 2- 3 light systems Along with student choice as per below.

 

Objective Portraiture Studio lighting: Students should create a body of work consisting of 7 portraits bracketed (including one of them shot with a tripod or rice sock. All photos should be shot from the chest up. Do not crop images at joints (elbows, Knees etc). Light meter under chin toward lights. F# 5.6

 

Vocabulary: Backlighting, Side lighting, Front lighting

 

Supplementary materials: The following should be brought to school all week or until you finish your shoot Tripod, rice sock, camera 

 

I will provide backdrops and supplemental lighting.

 

Production: Photograph  portraits from the Shoulders up, chest up, full body . Shoot front, & Side of the person

 

Use the following light schemes:

1. Backlighting: from behind (accentuates hair)

2. Front lighting: from the front (eliminates lines or unsightly facial features)

 

3. Side lighting:  from the side (accentuates pronounced facial features

 

Person looking into the camera – Warm Inviting

Person looking Away from Camera – Introspective, reflective

 

Objective Student choice:

Describe in detail what you are going to achieve with this shoot.

Include:

-Place, outdoors, indoors, both!

-What f #’s and shutters

-How are you going to achieve your objective

-What are the elements and principles you are going to specify in this shoot.

-Give details of how you will make this a photograph and not just a snapshot.

_Write at least three paragraphs on why you feel you will want to do this shoot and why you feel it will be successful.

 

Fashion Collage and Student password

22"X 28" poster board

10 head, 10 Waist,  10 full

Objective: Assemble a fashion collage

 

**********************************Photo Shoot: Fashion model

 

Objective: Students will experiment with studio lighting techniques, posing and photographing a live model.

 

Materials: Students will need to bring in at least 25 magazine clips of posed models that they feel are interesting. Students will also need their cameras in class all week.

 

Production: 2, 3"x4” prints on one 8x10" paper

Then flush mount

 

 

 

Alternative Assignments Upon instructors approval**************************************

 

Photo Shoot: Alternative Processing************************

 

Aesthetics and Art Criticism: Develop techniques for alternative processing and printing.

History: Look at the artist / photographer Man Ray

 

Objective: To discover ways to manipulate photographs and to investigate "alternative photography" V. "straight photography". Double ex, Negative sandwiching, Text, Sabetteir.

 

Assessment Criteria: E.O.Q.

Diptych   4x5" reg print and 1- 4x5" Sabattier on 11x14'mount 1 - 8x10" Sandwich or double exposure

 

 

 

Shutter Speed        F#

Bonfire                        15                  4

Fireworks                      8                  5.6

Interiors well Lit      30/60                 1.4, 2.8

Streets well lit               4                  4

Floodlit Buildings        60                  4, 5. 6, 8

Full Moon                   15, 30 ,B        4, 5.6, 8

Streaking Lights           B                   2, 5, 10 sec