Photo III Projects First semester

Paloverde.org/mroz

 

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

(Based CCSD   C. E.F)

Quarter One first Nine Weeks

 

No school Sept 6 Labor day

Aug 29 – Sept 1

Classroom procedures Handout: Release, Photo form

 

Objective: Classroom procedures: Cameras must have digital camera and at least a 6-1 card reader (mac)for the memory card. Lab Fees, dark room tour, Standard operating procedures, Safety, Syllabus Expectations.

 

Students computer password: birthdate: 4 digit year/ month/day

Example:  Birthday: April 9th, 1974 Password: 19740409

 

       

 

Sept  Open House 7:30 pm

Sept 1 – 9                    

Photo Shoot:  Summerlin

Objective: To digitally photograph 45 scenes of Summerlin. People, Places, Businesses, Parks, recreation, schools, nightlife, places of worship. Also to photographically document gas prices 15 images.

 

Grading Criteria:

Images “must” show a thought process.

Long shadows – Tight composition – Blurred depth of field – assorted angles and most importantly excellent lighting.

 

Sept 12 – 16

Computer Work

Objective:

Edit out all but 4 summerlin, 2 gas

Save 6 images to student folder

Manipulate:

Composition – hue – saturation- contrast – lightness/darkness – spots/streaks

Print

 

 

Sept 16 – Oct 31

Show Planning

 

Post Card Invitations:    Photo Show April 21, 2006 

Committee Heads: Jade Soresman & Amy Reynolds

Tiffany Pearce: PR

Invitation and Programs

Music

Donations and Liaisons

Mail Lists

Media

Set up

Break Down – Caitlin Downey  

 

Objective: Complete 4 post cards ea. 4 x 6”

Post cards will include the following information:

A title for the show

Palo Verde H.S. Dept. of Photographic Arts Presents:

Perception – A juried student photographic exhibit that depicts insight, awareness, and discernment of their world.

 

333 Pavilion center dr. Las Vegas NV 89144,

March 11, 2005  from 5-7 pm, Palo Verde H.S. Theater Gallery.

 

Students will coordinate the following:

District Mail List: Administrators, H.S. Photo and art teachers. Invitations, Programs, Food-Drink-utensils, Set up, Break down, Music, Liaisons, Business Contributions, Photo I Involvement, Donation bowl, Make signs to show where the show is.

 

Hang show April 17th

 

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Sept 27 - Oct 14                        Detail
 
Objective:
Photograph 30 Images
Images must show blurred foreground
Images must be tight and a detail
Photograph 15 Images of Gas pumps
Images must be tight and detailed
 
2. Scan images to student forlder
                                  
 
Oct 14 – Oct 24                      Food Artistry

Objective: To Photograph different foods as do the food artist for magazines, TV, Billboards.

 

Research: Student will write a 2 page single spaced 10pt.  APA format research Paper on the art of food presentation for photography. Paper will include a minimum of 6 techniques food artist use for photographing foods. Students will then photograph using 6 techniques.  Fruits, Veggies, Breads, Cheeses using the techniques they researched and at least three light sources.

 

 

 
             END OF 1ST QUARTER

 

Oct 25 – Nov 1                                                                

Shoot:            Scenic Nevada

Objective: To compile 14 Images that describes Nevada’s picturesque landscape

 

Critique using vocabulary terms below

Power Standards:

Literature Standards:4.12.4 Adapted to oral critique of work

 

Persuasion of the viewer – Compare & Contrast works

 

Understanding to master this standard: Working vocabulary of photo terms

 

Mastery Criterea: Evaluation of the person critiquing work as to do they make a credible argument or appeal to emotion.

 

Vocabulary:Aesthetics, 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

 

 

Materials:

Handout: Exposure chart, before shooting checklist

Students bring Cameras & Journals to class

 

 

Materials: Film, Paper, Film tanks, spools, scissors, Film & paper chemicals. Assessment: Knowledge: Evidence of Learned facts: Test on Vocabulary

Sweet 16, Bracketing, Aesthetics, Film Loading, ISO setting.   100
 
Assessment according to Blooms Taxonomy
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 Evaluation:
 
Note Evaluation is applicable to all shoots and subject to change  

No School Oct 29 Nevada Day

 

Quarter Two Second Nine Weeks

 
Nov 1 – 10                Toons – Borders – Scan

Objective: Following diections on the computer. In the application folder, open up toons_scan_border folder and follow diections under scan, border, toons. Then create from your stock images  4 toons, and 4 images with borders.Make images 5 x 7 and keep the resolution 240

 

 

 

Nov. 10 - 15

SHOOT                  Show Us Your World

National Geographic – Minolta photo contest

 

Materials:

Books: A Day in The Life of America. Sunday in America

 

Objective: Students are to capture the people, places, animals, or things that are central to their life, or that best describe the world around them. Students are encouraged to use their imaginations to create images that best express their feelings.

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

 

 

No school Nov 11 Veterans day                 

Nov 18 – Nov 27

 

November 28 Thanksgiving Vacation

 

 

Dec 2 -20
Poster board & objects in scrap folder due Nov 25 or 26

Objective: Collage of Food. Students will display a variety of sources to show food artistry & photography. Students are to make a collage at least 12 x 18” (poster board). Students will use magazines to compose a collage of Food.

Materials: Students to bring to class: Poster board, 1 glue stick and as many magazines necessary to complete the project. One tube Sock and at least 2 cups of rice or smooth sand

 

 
 

 

Photo Shoot: Food************************
Exam Review

 

 

Objective: Students will explore Food artistry and photography. Students will discover the effects of lighting and food artistry techniques such as waxing, sparing and arranging foods.

 

Dec 23 - Jan 5   Winter Break 

 

Semester Exams Jan 15,16,17^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Jan  6 – Jan 14

 

Exam Review / Makeup quarter work 

 

___________End of First Semester______

2nd Semester

 

Jan 20 – Feb 7

 

Photo Shoot: Movie Stills Reproduction******************

 

Objective:  Recreate the one still from the movie that you like. Look at work of Cindy Sherman.  Re-create as closely as possible that scene pay attention to poses, lighting, clothing, and background. Keep it simple.

 

Materials:  3 of your favorite DVD movies

 

Assessment Criteria: Completion of photograph according to the E.O.Q. and criteria

 

 

 

Week # 28                                                   Feb 10  – 17

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Tutorial: Classroom book

WE WILL BE IN ROOM 325

 

Objective: Students will be able to work on the first three tutorials Adobe Photoshop classroom book

 

 

Feb 18 – 21 Photo manipulation

Create an image using a catch phrase like

Butterfly make an image with butter and fly

Or create an Image like a black and white cow and instead of random black marks they could be defined as a world

Or jet fighter planes having kids strapped on the wings like an amusement ride.

 

 

 

Feb 24 – Mar 7  

****************Photo Shoot: Portraiture, 2- 3 light systems

Objectives: Students should create a body of work consisting of 7 portraits bracketed x3 (including one of them shot with a tripod or rice sock. All photos should be shot from the chest up. To capture a moment in time.

 

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 7 portraits from the chest up bracketed by 3. 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

 

 

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

 

Tues March 8 & Wed March 9

Hang Show

 

FOURTH QUARTER

 

 

 

Mar 10 – Mar 14

Photoshop

Objective: To manipulate all photographs in portfolio. Fix contrast, spots, saturation, and composition.

 Then pick out one image and Digitally Hand color the image. And take your portrait and morph it with another body.

Demonstrate: Tools menu, Layering, Page set up, save for web - change size, Changing composition, contrast, spotting, manipulation. Hand color process Photoshop Lite

 

 

Mar 24 – April 11

 

*****************Photo Shoot: Photojournalism

 

Objective: Research photojournalism techniques and implement them to produce “FRONT PAGE NEWS”

 

April 14 – April 18    Spring Break     

 

April 21– May 9      

**************************************Photo Shoot: An Event

 

Objective: Students will pick an event to photograph. Wedding, Birthday, or any party or functions.

 

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

 

May 12 - May 30

End of 4th Quarter

 

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**************************************

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

 

Aesthetics and Art Criticism: Balance: Symmetry, Asymmetrical. Negative, Positive Space, Repetition

Production: Notes, worksheet

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. You are required to have at least 12 repetition shots, the rest are your choice

Materials: My Rep shoot

                             

 

 

 

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