Inspirations: Projects: Photographic Series

A photographic can tell a powerful story. A series of connected photographs sharing a common theme can tell a deeply powerful story.

Unit

• Owning It

Questions

• What story do I want to tell with photographs?

• How do I edit and organize (sequence) my photographs to tell the best story?

What am I making? And Examples

• Example assignment web page

• Lens Culture Series (collection of many series)

• Socially Distant Photography by George Nobechi (inspired by COVID isolation)

• Chasing Ice music video - variety of ice shots (more images in Chasing Ice movie preview)

• Mr. W.'s series Habitats from Alcatraz Island

How do I make it?

• Great examples of series creation ideas (iPhone Photography School)

Steps

1. Decide on a Theme, what will your photographs have in common?

   • Cats? Dogs? Flowers? Cars that race? Lifted Trucks?

   • Ideas - Joy? Loneliness? Love? Silliness?

   • Abstract - A Shape? A Color? Things with Lines?

   • A place - like "The Mission" - a collection of a variety of photos that share the identity of "The Mission" neighborhood

2. Go search for images matching your Theme - Take way more photographs than you need!

   • Practice Rules of Composition, good framing, lighting, focus! Remember your photography skills!

3. Decide which photos you want to use, and add them to a Google Photos album (https://photos.google.com)

   • Use a Title that matches your Theme

4. Use the Editing tools of Google Photos to adjust lighting, color, and cropping of your selections.

5. Sequence (put in order) your photos!

   • Click the 3-dot menu at the top, and select Edit album, then you can drag the photos around - which one should be first? Which should be last? What's the order in between? The order tells the story.

6. Click the Share icon in Google Photos for your album, and click the Create Link button

   • then Copy the link (Ctrl-C / Command-C)

7. On Google Sites, under Pages, create a new page called Series.

8. Type the Title of your series (related to your Theme), then highlight it, then click the link button, and paste your album link.

9. Write about what you learned doing this assignment, mention skills and techniques.

10. When done, push the Publish button, review the settings, and publish.

11. Then click the chain-link button, Copy the link for your page, and turn in the link.

Grading

• 4/A = Do all the steps, 2 interesting insights about "what I learned"

• 3/B = Do all the steps, interesting "what I learned"

• 2/C = Do all the steps, basic "what I learned"

Career Connections

• Photography skills are in demand, and making a series strengthens your skills and your portfolio.

Resources

• Photographic Series resources