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YOUR OBJECTIVE: STUDENTS SHOOT A SERIES OF PHOTOS INSPIRED BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND WILL USE FILTERS AND ADJUSTMENT LAYERS IN PHOTOSHOP TO MIMIC THE LOOK AND CHARACTERISTICS OF STIEGLITZ'S PHOTOGRAPHS.
YOUR OBJECTIVE: STUDENTS SHOOT A SERIES OF PHOTOS INSPIRED BY ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND WILL USE FILTERS AND ADJUSTMENT LAYERS IN PHOTOSHOP TO MIMIC THE LOOK AND CHARACTERISTICS OF STIEGLITZ'S PHOTOGRAPHS.
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
ALFRED STIEGLITZ
Born: January 1, 1864, Hoboken, NJ
Died: July 13, 1946, New York City, NY
Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Before Stieglitz, photography was not considered an art form, but more of a scientific technology or way of recording events.
People argued that photographs were made by machines (cameras) and machines did not have the capability to be artistically creative, therefore, photography could not be an art.
Stieglitz argued that like a painter uses a paint brush as a tool, a photographer uses a camera as a tool and still has creative and artistic control of how the image will turn out.
Stieglitz stressed the importance of composition, mood, subject matter and creative editing and manipulation of photographs to further the photographer's artistic expression.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT
YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Shoot a series of photographs inspired by Alfred Stieglitz.
Focus on creative expression, purposeful composition, and creative subject matter
Shoot them using Av mode. Shoot in color, we will convert them to black and white
Tomorrow we will edit our photos in Photoshop, giving them an "antiqued" look in order to mimic Stieglitz's photos.
STUDENT EXAMPLES
Photoshop Instructions
Before
After
Photoshop Steps:
1. Go to File > Open and select your photo.
2. Click on your " adjustment layer" button and choose black and white
3. Now let's add some contrast...
DO LEVELS TO MAKE IT MORE CONTRASTY
4. Select your background layer by clicking on it.
5. Make a duplicate copy of your background layer by hitting "Control J" on your keyboard.
6.Now go to "Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur"
7. Lower the opacity of that layer
8. Making sure your "background copy" layer is selected, click on the "layer menu" icon in the top right-hand corner of your layers panel.
Select "Merge Down."
This should combine your two bottom layers into one.
9. Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise
Adjust the contrast and intensity so you can see some grain.
DOWNLOAD ONE OF THESE TEXTURES
10. Go to File>Place Embedded>and place the texture you downloaded. Hold Shift to stretch it completely over your image.
11. Making sure that your texture layer is selected (and on top of your background layer)...
- In the top-left corner of your layers panel, choose "Overlay" as your blend mode.
- If the effect is too strong, lessen the opacity of your texture layer. Try around 80% or so.
12. Go up to Layers at the top and hit Flatten (all the way at the bottom)
13.- Now let's give our photo a sepia tint to it...
- Click on your "add adjustment layer" button at the bottom of your layers panel.
- Choose "Hue Saturation" and Click PRESETS and drag the Presets down to Sepia
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