Week 1
Homework/ Proper
exposure + bracketing
DUE: Friday, January 19th at 5pm
_Shoot 200 bracketed images in manual.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload
all your contact sheets on the blog. *
A correctly exposed image means that the right amount of light has
exposed the image sensor.
Bracketing is the process of taking three photos (in manual) of the
same scene: 1 intentionally underexposed, 1 with the correct exposure, 1
intentionally overexposed.
Further
Resources:
*The contact sheets may take up to 5 minutes to be
automated. If they take longer than that you may need to automate them in the
architecture lab or the photography computer lab.
Week 2
Homework/ Extract
the magic
DUE: Wednesday, January 24h at 5pm
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| Elspeth Diederix |
“Choose
an object that you normally wouldn’t give a second glance. Something that you
see all the time but don’t find very special.
Study it carefully and discover a quality that you like
about it. Maybe its shape or color, or even the way it moves or feels.
Think of a way to photograph it that will show the beauty
in this commonplace object. Most often, if you just document the object as it
is, its particular beauty remains invisible. You might need to alter something
to make the viewer see what you see. Take the object out of its normal
surroundings, or change its color, or make it look like something else. All it
might need is some special lighting. You must provide the extra element that
will extract the magic from the ordinary and make it visible.”
-Elspeth Diederix
_Shoot 200 bracketed images in manual of the object of
your choosing
_Create contact sheets.
_Watch tutorials on raw processing and black and white
conversation on Photoshop.
_Upload all your contact sheets on the blog.
_Upload your top 10 best images of the object onto the
class blog.
Week 3
Homework/ Camera shots + angles OR Arm's length
Due:
Wednesday, January 31st at 5pm
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| Alexis Lambrou |
“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close
enough.” –Robert Capa
For this assignment you will photograph in manual the 11 camera shots and angles. This includes: extreme long shot/long shot, full-shot, mid shot, medium shot, close-up, extreme close-up,bird's eye angle, high angle, eye-level angle, low angle, "dutch" angle.
OR
You will hold your arm stretched out in front of yourself and focus on your fingertips. Then "tape down the camera's focal ring in the exact position, making anything farther than an 'arm's length' away out of focus." -Alexis Lambrou
You will hold your arm stretched out in front of yourself and focus on your fingertips. Then "tape down the camera's focal ring in the exact position, making anything farther than an 'arm's length' away out of focus." -Alexis Lambrou
_Shoot 200 bracketed images in manual using all 11 of the camera angles and camera shots in the handout. (If you opt out of bracketing, you will still need to upload 200 images)
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and your top 10 images .
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Week 4
Homework/ Action!
Due: Wednesday, February 7th at 5pm
Watch your favorite movie again, or read your favorite book again, OR listen to your favorite song again. Without leaving Gainesville try to tell the same story in ten images. Use the motion principles you learned about in class (stop, blurred, and panning).
Week 4
Homework/ Action!
Due: Wednesday, February 7th at 5pm
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| Cristina de Middel |
_Shoot 200 bracketed images in manual (If you opt out of bracketing, you will still need to upload 200 individual images)
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and your top 10 images
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Week 5
Homework/ Where do you stand? OR color story
Due: Wednesday, February 14th at 5pm
"The question of where you stand, while physical and spatial in nature, also has political, professional and emotional ramifications. Where do you stand politically in your work?
You are leaving on a spaceship and the only you can take with you to describe life on earth is your photographs. They must describe what life feels like to you (not just what it looks like) in order to give a sense of this anyone you might encounter in space using only the photographs you make for the assignment, no words." - Jeff Jacobson
_Shoot 200 bracketed images in manual (If you opt out of bracketing, you will still need to upload 200 individual images.
Further References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6y9PUB69VM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0OyqECAS4
http://www.tedgorecreative.com/blog/2016/2/8/imc0w2lc0ie6b1jtixfht4jgqyjvnu
Week 6
Homework/ Street photography+ the stage
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and your top 10 images
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Color Story
A color story is a series of images or videos that follow a particular color palette.
Color Story
A color story is a series of images or videos that follow a particular color palette.
Your assignment is to create 8 color images. The images should cover one category from the color harmonies (analogous, complementary, split complementary, monochromatic, triadic, quadratic, or diad).
_Shoot 200 images in manual and color.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and your top 10 images
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Further References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6y9PUB69VM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP0OyqECAS4
http://www.tedgorecreative.com/blog/2016/2/8/imc0w2lc0ie6b1jtixfht4jgqyjvnu
Week 6
Due: Wednesday, February 21st at 5pm
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| Alex Webb |
Experiment with the following approaches:
1. Extreme symmetry and asymmetry
2. Dynamic framing, such as diagonal compositions
3. Multiple angles of view
4. Using the edge of the frame only with blank centers
5. A frame within a frame
6. Isolating two different subjects in the frame that bear no immediate relation to each other.
7. Staying in one location for a third-minute period of time
_Shoot 200 bracketed images in manual (If you opt out of bracketing, you will still need to upload 200 individual images.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and your top 10 images
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Week 7
Photography as Evidence
Select from either homework assignment. This assignment is due on Friday, March 2nd at 10am.
Beginner H.W. Assignment:
Using the compositional elements, make a 10 image sequence of purely objective photographs. "We know photographs can 'lie.' Is it possible for them to tell the truth?" Gregory Halpern
_Shoot 200 images.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and top 10 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Advance H.W. Assignment:
Using the compositional elements, create a series of 10 images to fabricate a convincing non-fantastical fiction (digitally unaltered). All 10 images should work together to tell a single lie, or they can tell 10 individual lies in unrelated photographs. "Keep the images simple and direct. Prior to the assignment look at famous questionable photographs by people such as: Robert Papa, Mathew Brady, and W.H. Jackson as examples of this sort of deception." - Ron Jude
Week 7
Photography as Evidence
Select from either homework assignment. This assignment is due on Friday, March 2nd at 10am.
Beginner H.W. Assignment:
Using the compositional elements, make a 10 image sequence of purely objective photographs. "We know photographs can 'lie.' Is it possible for them to tell the truth?" Gregory Halpern
_Shoot 200 images.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and top 10 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Advance H.W. Assignment:
Using the compositional elements, create a series of 10 images to fabricate a convincing non-fantastical fiction (digitally unaltered). All 10 images should work together to tell a single lie, or they can tell 10 individual lies in unrelated photographs. "Keep the images simple and direct. Prior to the assignment look at famous questionable photographs by people such as: Robert Papa, Mathew Brady, and W.H. Jackson as examples of this sort of deception." - Ron Jude
_Shoot 200 images. Create contact sheets
_Upload your contact sheets and top 6 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Week 8
Beginner H.W. Assignment- What is your Aura?
"Some people believe that eery individual emanates an 'aura'-- a distinct atmosphere or quality that seems to surround them, often described as a color. Put on neutral shirt, blouse, or dress (white, gray, beige, etc.) Stand in front of walls painted different colors and take a series of self-portraits." (Armstrong) You will need to place your camera on timer. Also, you will need a tripod. "If you're having trouble finding enough different-colored walls to work with, try it with different-colored shirts, blouses, or dresses instead."
How to focus your self-portrait- https://youtu.be/_Le2xf8e5Ns?t=6s
Artists to look at:
Cindy Sherman
Lorna Simpson
Claude Cahun, more on Cahun
_Shoot 200 color or black and white images.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and top 10 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Advance H.W. Assignment: Neighbor Labor
"Introduce yourself to your closest neighbor. Tell them you are a student working on an assignment and ask permission to accompany them to their job tomorrow. Spend at least an hour with them at work and make pictures there. Additional permissions may be required. Repeat with other neighbors." (Connors) Try to capture the essence of their labor. What does it mean to work there? What do you want to say about their labor?
Artists/writings to look at:
August Sander
Reading an Archive: Photography between labor and capital by Allan Sekula
Jamel Shabazz
Matthew Connors
Preston Gannaway
Kate Ovaska
_Shoot 200 images.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and top 10 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
AND
Finalize your images for Project 2
_Upload your contact sheets and top 6 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Week 8
Beginner H.W. Assignment- What is your Aura?
"Some people believe that eery individual emanates an 'aura'-- a distinct atmosphere or quality that seems to surround them, often described as a color. Put on neutral shirt, blouse, or dress (white, gray, beige, etc.) Stand in front of walls painted different colors and take a series of self-portraits." (Armstrong) You will need to place your camera on timer. Also, you will need a tripod. "If you're having trouble finding enough different-colored walls to work with, try it with different-colored shirts, blouses, or dresses instead."
How to focus your self-portrait- https://youtu.be/_Le2xf8e5Ns?t=6s
Artists to look at:
Cindy Sherman
Lorna Simpson
Claude Cahun, more on Cahun
_Shoot 200 color or black and white images.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and top 10 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
Advance H.W. Assignment: Neighbor Labor
"Introduce yourself to your closest neighbor. Tell them you are a student working on an assignment and ask permission to accompany them to their job tomorrow. Spend at least an hour with them at work and make pictures there. Additional permissions may be required. Repeat with other neighbors." (Connors) Try to capture the essence of their labor. What does it mean to work there? What do you want to say about their labor?
Artists/writings to look at:
August Sander
Reading an Archive: Photography between labor and capital by Allan Sekula
Jamel Shabazz
Matthew Connors
Preston Gannaway
Kate Ovaska
_Shoot 200 images.
_Create contact sheets.
_Upload your contact sheets and top 10 images.
_Make 4 comments on your peers work.
AND
Finalize your images for Project 2
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