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Due Oct 21
Due Oct 21
When exploring the five senses through photography, the challenge is to visually represent experiences that are often felt, tasted, smelled, heard, or seen. Each sense offers unique opportunities to engage the viewer's imagination by capturing moments that trigger sensory associations.
Sight: This is the most direct sense to represent in photography. Focus on images that highlight vibrant colors, dynamic compositions, or beautiful landscapes. The goal is to create a visual feast that captivates the viewer's eyes. Lighting, perspective, and detail are crucial in elevating the subject.
Touch: To convey the sensation of touch, emphasize texture and surface in your photos. Close-up shots of rough, soft, or smooth objects can evoke the feeling of physically interacting with the subject. A wrinkled hand, a fabric’s grain, or an animal’s fur can help communicate the tactile quality.
Taste: While taste is abstract in visual form, you can imply it through food photography. Capture the freshness of ingredients, the juiciness of fruit, or the steam rising from a hot dish. Lighting and composition should enhance the mouth-watering qualities of the food, making the viewer feel like they can almost taste it.
Smell: To suggest smell, focus on elements like flowers, spices, or a cup of coffee. These subjects naturally evoke scent, and a shallow depth of field can isolate them, making the viewer concentrate on imagining the fragrance. You can also include environmental cues like smoke or mist to suggest aromatic moments.
Sound: Representing sound in photography requires creativity. You might capture the motion of instruments, the ripple of water, or the rustling of leaves. Movement often hints at sound, so using slow shutter speeds or positioning your subjects in motion can convey the idea of hearing within the still image.
By thoughtfully composing images that engage these senses, photographers can create a multisensory experience through a purely visual medium.
You will be graded on the following:
Correct Naming Convention: LastName_FirstName_ProjectName-##.jpeg
There will be 2 Grades per Assignment
Turning in 1 image on the assigned due date
Correctly capturing the assignment specifications
Creating unique compositions with interesting subject matter
Quality of retouching
Use of the Elements of Art: Color, Form, Line, Shape, Space, Texture, Value
Use of the Principles of Design: Balance, Contrast, Emphasis, Movement (Rhythm), Perspective, Repetition (Pattern), Unity
***If you take photos of your pet it must be a well thought out, planned composition
*** Photos taken in or around school are prohibited
*** Plan out your photo shoots do now wait until the night before the photos are due to take your photos, pay attention to the weather
***DO NOT TURN IN MULTIPLE ANGLES OF THE SAME SHOT. EACH SHOT MUST BE UNIQUE AND DIFFERENT.
Standards
Standards
VAHSPH.CR.1 - Visualize and generate ideas for creating works of art.
VAHSPH.CR.2 Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan and create works of art
VAHSPH.CR.3 Engage in an array of processes, media, techniques, and technology through experimentation, practice, and persistence.
VAHSPH.CR.4 Incorporate formal and informal components to create works of art.
VAHSPH.CR.5 Reflect on, revise, and refine works of art considering relevant traditional and contemporary practices as well as personal artistic ideation.
VAHSPH.PR.1 Plan, prepare, and present works of art for exhibition in school, virtual environment, and/or portfolio presentation.
VAHSPH.RE.1 Reflect on the context of personal works of art in relation to community, culture, and the world.
VAHSPH.RE.2 Critique personal works of art and the artwork of others, individually and collaboratively, using a variety of approaches.
VAHSPH.RE.3 Engage in the process of art criticism to make meaning of works of art and increase visual literacy.
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