This half-year (2.5 credit) course provides the student with the opportunity to study and create art in the form of photography. In this course, it takes on many forms including manual, digital and web-based applications. We approach photography as a fine art form to be used for artistic expression as well as commercial end uses. Materials, techniques, and equipment used by today’s artists are introduced through demonstrations. Inspiration is derived from experimentation and composition studies. Students will explore representational and abstract styles of photography, as well as imaginative approaches to self-reflection and artistic expression.
This half-year (2.5 credit) course provides the student with the opportunity to study and create art in the form of photography. In this course, it takes on many forms including manual, digital and web-based applications. We approach photography as a fine art form to be used for artistic expression as well as commercial end uses. Materials, techniques, and equipment used by today’s artists are introduced through demonstrations. Inspiration is derived from experimentation and composition studies. Students will explore representational and abstract styles of photography, as well as imaginative approaches to self-reflection and artistic expression.
Composition Notebook
Composition Notebook
What is Composition?
Each time you take a photo, you end up making conscious decisions about what items to include in your image. You also decide how to arrange the objects that are in your frame. So, what is composition? It is simply the arrangement of the elements in your photo.
The Project
In this project, you will identify an examples of 24 composition strategies and create a professional Google Slides presentation.
You may choose to use digital images from Internet sources or use your own photographs. We will spend some class time shooting for this assignment. On each Slide, you need to have a photographic image (or two) a title, definition and description of the way the composition strategy is used in the image. See examples below.
Inspiration
Famous photo by Harold E. Edgerton, Bullet through Apple, 1964
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/bullet-through-apple-32694
Article: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/harold-edgerton-bullet-apple-snap/index.html
Darkroom Photography
Darkroom Photography
A darkroom is the room a film photographer uses to develop photographs. A typical darkroom is equipped with developing chemicals, an enlarger, and a red-tinted safelight that doesn't expose black-and-white film. In this class, I am producing gelatin silver prints, using filter, dodgin and burning to makr the best photographic images possible.
Longwood Gardens
Longwood Gardens
Forced Perspective Challenge
Forced Perspective Challenge
Forced perspective photography relies on optical illusion. The captured subjects seem to be of a different size or distance because of the angle chosen by a shooter. You can use such an illusion to make small subjects look gigantic or skyscrapers look like miniature models. While many photo manipulation techniques rely on the image editing, perspective images require unconventional subject positioning and your camera.
Bugs Eye View Challenge
Bugs Eye View Challenge
Bug's Eye View is a composition strategy where artists use a low vantage point to show a unique view of their subject.
Portrait Lighting
Portrait Lighting
The art of capturing images of people is called portraiture. In order to take a pleasing and creative portrait of an individual, photographers must have an understanding of lighting patternsand how thye are used to enhance the face of the subject.. Here are 6 lighting patterns used by professional photographers.
Butterfly
Butterfly
Loop
Loop
Rembrandt
Rembrandt
Side/Split
Side/Split
Bottom
Bottom
Ring
Ring
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