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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
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.
Sept 8th & 9th Photogram
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
The
Camera, Lens & Film Functions
School Shoot:
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:
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
Assessment: Test
on camera and film function
Light shadow exposure
No
school Oct 31
Staff Dev
Quarter Two Second
Nine Weeks
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
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
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.
"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
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.
Materials: developing & 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
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"
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