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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
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:
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
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.
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
.
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.
Oct 25 Nov 1
Shoot: Scenic
Objective: To compile
14 Images that describes
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:
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
No School Oct 29
Quarter Two Second
Nine Weeks
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
National Geographic
Minolta photo contest
Materials:
Books:
A Day in The Life of
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
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
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
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**************************************
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"
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