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At least 15 images due on Monday March 17, 2025
• This give you 11 days to take 15 pictures...
• You will have time to edit these images in class on the due date.
TASK No. 1 - Look Up - Worms Eye View - At least 5 images.
Most of us spend our days looking down: at our phones, computers, homework, meals. What would you see if you looked up instead?
Read “When 4 Photographers Looked Up, This Is What They Saw.”
For this assignment, photographers were challenged to look up and photograph what they saw. View the photos they made and their commentary on them. Then choose one that stands out to you. What did the photographer want to capture in it? Was the photo successful in your opinion? What does the image say to you? What does it show us about looking up?
Your turn: Photograph what you see when you look up.
For this assignment, You must take at least 5 photos outside... I Challenge you to photograph what you see when you turn your gaze from looking down to looking up.
You might approach this assignment in three ways: 1) You can carry your camera around with you for a day or several days and photograph anything interesting you see when you look up 2) Or you might start with a specific place and idea in mind that you want to photograph 3) you could also lay down and look up.
Spend some time studying the images, shapes, patterns, colors, lines, light, shadows, angles or movements above you.
•What catches your attention?
•What have you never noticed before?
•How is this angle different from looking at something straight on, straight down or from the side?
•Is there anything you see that strikes you as artistic, that might make for an interesting
photograph?
TASK No. 2 - Capture the sound of a place - What composition rules / strategies can you use to keep the view interested? - At least 5 images
Photography might seem like it’s all about sight, but it can evoke other senses, too. Four photographers were challenged to try to capture the sounds of New York City in images. How can you show what the place you live sounds like?
Study the photograph below closely. What might you hear if you were in the scene? Which elements of the image help convey those sounds? What senses or emotions does the photograph evoke in you? What story does it tell about New York City?
For this assignment, The Take sent four photographers to capture New York’s soundscape in images. Spend some time with the photos and the photographers’ commentary on them. Which images most strongly and clearly imply sound to you? Which ones surprise you or perhaps challenge an assumption you have about life in New York City?
Your turn: Photograph the sounds of a place.
For this assignment, you might travel around your city or town and photograph the sounds you find. Or you might focus on a more contained space, such as the skate park, your neighborhood or any other place where you spend time. You might try to capture many disparate sounds — quiet ones, loud ones, harsh ones, pleasant ones — Or you can try to capture a particular type of sound, as Ike Edeani did in his photos of the subway stations’ “mini concerts.”
For this assignment, You must take at least 5 photos off of school property... Remember to find your focal point.... Think about the different composition rules / strategies.
TASK No. 3 - Frame within a Frame- At least 5 images
A Composition technique called Frame within a frame. Frame within a frame can add interest to the most mundane scene and will help lead a viewer’s eye into the main part of the image. It’s also great to add depth and context to your imagery. Give your photography that extra spark by learning about the composition technique ‘frame within a frame’.
What is frame within a frame in photography?
As you may be aware, composition is a top technique to master if you want to create consistently great photography. Frame within a frame is a compositional technique that will add a new string to your bow and it’s really easy to achieve. All you need to do is frame your main subject within another frame, thus creating a frame within a frame.
Using frame within a frame in your compositions has 4 intentions and they are:
1 - To help move the viewer’s eye toward the main subject in your photo
2 - To give your picture context, e.g. add something else that will visually describe the scene
3 - Give the image depth.
4 – To simply give more interest to an otherwise boring scene.
Your turn: Frame within a Frame
For this assignment, You must take at least 5 photos off of school property... Remember to find your focal point.... Think about the different items that can be used to frame your focal point / subject.
HOW TO GET YOUR IMAGES ON YOUR COMPUTER GRAPHICS (P) DRIVE
1 - Upload your images from your phone to your Google Drive and Download them
Open your Google Drive
Look for your images
Click on the 1st image - Hold down the shift button and click on the last image
Click on the download icon or right click and go to download.
2 - Moving your images from your downloads to your Computer Graphics (P) drive
Open your downloaded zip drive of your images.
Select all of your images - Click on the 1st image - Hold down the shift key - click on the last image.
Click on the icon at the top of the page that looks like overlapping paper. (COPY)
On the left side, go to this computer - Computer Graphics (P) drive - Personal - Your name - Click on the icon at the top of the screen that looks like a clipboard with paper. (Paste)
This will paste all of your images into your Computer Graphics (P) drive.
Now you are ready for PS
HOW TO EDIT YOUR IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP
Open Photoshop
Open one of your images in Photoshop
Click on the thumbnail image on the layers panel
Crop out any distractions from the background - Click done or check mark when done
Go to the top of the page and click on Filter - Camera Raw Filter
Click on Auto - Adjustments (this will automatically adjust the lighting and contrast) If the image looks better, keep it. If you like the original better, click on auto again and it will go back or Ctrl Z will undo.
Scroll down and look for white balance.
Click on Auto - White Balance (this will automatically adjust the yellow overtones) If the image looks better, keep it. If you like the original better, Change it back to as shot or Ctrl Z will undo.
When you are happy with the image, Click done - this will take you back to PS
File - Export - Export As - JPEG
Post all images to your composition page on your portfolio.
Make a title for each section - Worm's eye view, Capture the sound of a place, Frame within a Frame..
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