Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Work for half term
1. Please make sure your sketch books are up to date.
2. Go to a photography exhibition and write about the experience.
3. Take lots of photos! More texture and start thinking about 'portraiture', out next theme.
4. Try digitally manipulating your images. You could take one image of a flower and make it larger, smaller, change the opacity, colour, exposure, angle etc and create a composite image. Re read the article from the BJP and try and write a similarly arty one of your own.
2. Go to a photography exhibition and write about the experience.
3. Take lots of photos! More texture and start thinking about 'portraiture', out next theme.
4. Try digitally manipulating your images. You could take one image of a flower and make it larger, smaller, change the opacity, colour, exposure, angle etc and create a composite image. Re read the article from the BJP and try and write a similarly arty one of your own.
18th October
Now you should have a good set of man made and nature photographs.
You have been given lots of worksheets recently so you need to use those to guide you in your note making.
1. Choose the images you are most happy with and edit it them in iphoto using, crop, enhance and adjustments.
2. Keep print screening your process, print these out and annotate them in your sketch book until you are happy with an image that you should print out larger and annotate according to the worksheets.
3. Now you need to think about a conceptual approach to your texture pictures, look for existing artists and respond to their work. Try overlaying images and changing opacity or consider the work of Lisa Creagh and her 'digital garden'. Here is an interesting article about her
You have been given lots of worksheets recently so you need to use those to guide you in your note making.
1. Choose the images you are most happy with and edit it them in iphoto using, crop, enhance and adjustments.
2. Keep print screening your process, print these out and annotate them in your sketch book until you are happy with an image that you should print out larger and annotate according to the worksheets.
3. Now you need to think about a conceptual approach to your texture pictures, look for existing artists and respond to their work. Try overlaying images and changing opacity or consider the work of Lisa Creagh and her 'digital garden'. Here is an interesting article about her
On her website there is a very good article where her work is written about in fine art terms, perfect as a guide for the style of writing you should be aspiring to.
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Where to look
It is sometimes hard to know which photographers to use. As a general starting point, look at these:
Magnum
The Photographers Gallery
List of famous photographers
Magnum
The Photographers Gallery
List of famous photographers
5th October
Sketch books.
By now you should have:
1. Intro to dark room techniques:
An explanation of pin hole photography. Some examples of artists work and a description of your own experience of it.
An explanation of Photograms. Some examples of artists work (look at Many Ray) and a description of your own experience.
For the next few weeks we will be leaving the dark room and looking at using digital cameras. In particular we will examine the theme of 'Texture', both man made and natural.
Within this we need to push your use of the SLR cameras. So, when taking shots, change the aperture & shutter settings several times for the same compostition. This will allow you to immediately see the difference in outcome these settings can create. Depth of field should be manipulated as should the framing of shots.
Combined with this should be your exploration of artists you admire and their work on texture. So a typical investigation should consist of:
1. Brainstorm/mind map theme.
2. Sketch ideas for images
3. Exploration of existing photographers work.
4. Take at least two images that you admire and explain why using textual analysis sheets.
5. Choose one of these to act as a spring board for your own photography.
6. Print out a few and experiment with cropping and manipulating digitally in iphoto initially ( we will move on to Photoshop later).
7. From within iphoto find out the info shutter speed, aperture and ISO and note down. Annotate the results of this research, what aesthetic result does it have?
8. Produce your favourite image and do a textual analysis of it, explaining how it 'works'.
By now you should have:
1. Intro to dark room techniques:
An explanation of pin hole photography. Some examples of artists work and a description of your own experience of it.
An explanation of Photograms. Some examples of artists work (look at Many Ray) and a description of your own experience.
For the next few weeks we will be leaving the dark room and looking at using digital cameras. In particular we will examine the theme of 'Texture', both man made and natural.
Within this we need to push your use of the SLR cameras. So, when taking shots, change the aperture & shutter settings several times for the same compostition. This will allow you to immediately see the difference in outcome these settings can create. Depth of field should be manipulated as should the framing of shots.
Combined with this should be your exploration of artists you admire and their work on texture. So a typical investigation should consist of:
1. Brainstorm/mind map theme.
2. Sketch ideas for images
3. Exploration of existing photographers work.
4. Take at least two images that you admire and explain why using textual analysis sheets.
5. Choose one of these to act as a spring board for your own photography.
6. Print out a few and experiment with cropping and manipulating digitally in iphoto initially ( we will move on to Photoshop later).
7. From within iphoto find out the info shutter speed, aperture and ISO and note down. Annotate the results of this research, what aesthetic result does it have?
8. Produce your favourite image and do a textual analysis of it, explaining how it 'works'.
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