Mandatory Assignments for Photo 01

 

When you turn in your assignments please put each assignment in a clearly marked folder ... your name, the class am or pm and the day. You must also include a contact sheet with each assignment. It is best if you save all the folders in the event that you want to challenge a grade. It is also important that you write your name and the assignment the image fulfills on the back of each submitted photograph.

Biography

Gallery Report

Photograms

1 st roll of film. Make 36 exposures using the camera as best you can of anything that is important to you and the photographs of line and point. Pay attention to the elements in the photograph that include Texture - -
The important issue here is that the subjects you select to photograph should be subjects that have special significance in your life.

"A line is the track made by the moving point ... it is created by movement ... specifically through the destruction of the intense, self-contained repose of the point." Wassili Kandinsky
Is there a visible point in any of your photographs of lines.
Perhaps where the crack in the concrete begins?
2 pictures of straight lines
2 pictures of diagonal lines
2 pictures of curved lines
2 pictures of dots.

You need to turn in: 1 contact sheet of at least 20 pictures of which 8 of them are line, and dot photographs.

In addition you need to print 1 or 2 photographs from the contact sheet that relates to the other frames that demonstrate subjects that you care about.

 

Critique Dates:
Photogram, 1st Roll of film, Design lines and dots, Depth of Field

Tuesday March 3, 1:15 pm

Wednesday March 4, 8:30 am and 1:15 pm

 

Thoughts on Composition

 

Depth of Field ---
1. foreground in focus and background out of focus
2. foreground out of focus and the background in focus
3. foreground out of focus ... middle in focus ... background out of focus
4. everything from 5 foot to infinity in focus
5. Extra Credit - Foreground in focus - middle out of focus - background in focus

 

Turn in: You need to turn in a contact sheet of at least 36 pictures that you photographed for the depth of field assignment. You also need to turn in 3 prints from the depth of field assignment. You should photograph at least one roll of film on this assignment and if you are shooting digital you need to turn in a contact sheet of at least 36 exposures.

 

Depth of Field Calculator
A program that solves depth of field problems for macro photography and optical microscopes

 

Motion

1. Stop action
2. Pan action
3. blurred action
4. 30 second time exposure or longer

 

Point of View

a. Birds Eye
b. Worms Eye
c. Worms Eye Eye Level

 

Design

At least 3 photographs of complex line compositions and 3 photographs of complex dot compositions.

 

Turn in: You need to turn in at least one contact sheet of 36 pictures.You need to include on the contact sheet the 6 design problems, complex line and complex dot. If you combine the Motion and the point of view assignments you need to turn in three prints that satisfy different mixes of Motion and Point of View. Or three prints for Motion and three prints for point of view.

 

Critique Dates:

Depth of Field, Motion Assignment, Point of View, and Complex line and dot design assignment
Tuesday March 17, 1:15 pm

Wednesday March 18, 8:30 AM and 1:15 pm

 


On all the following light assignments try to pay attention to Highlights, Midtones, Shadow Values.

 

Portraits
Side Light NO fill

Side Light With fill

45 degree with NO fill

45 degree with Fill
Frontal

Silhouette

Natural Light

back light
side light
silhouette
open shade
one beam of light

most unusual light you can find.

Strangers

 

After the strangers assignment you have a choice:

You can do a project, for which you take the time and expose 5 to 6 rolls of film. You will need to turn in the proof sheets during the final Critique.

 

Or

 

You can do the Balance of the assignments

Reflections

Unity in Variety

Evidence of human kind

Close up

Multiple Exposure

 

You are encouraged to bring as many of the assignments into the Project as you can.

For instance:

A photograph could be depth of field, stop action, worms eye point of view, Natural Light/backlight,