PROJECT #11: CLONES (Photoshop Layers Awareness)

TODAY IN CLASS: (4 points)

1. Make ONE practice image with 3+ different clones of your partner. 
2. Assemble the different images into one final image.
3. Post to your BLOG.
4. Drop to shared DRIVE.

@HOME FOR NEXT CLASS: (4 points)
1. Make two different sets of photographs (family/friend/yourself).
2. Assemble TWO images with THREE+ different clones each. 
3. Each final image must be a distinctly different setting/place. 
4. Bring photos to next class to begin processing and combining. 

NOTE: Direct your subject to do something different/odd/thought provoking for each of the separate photographs you make...make it something that is interesting and unexpected for the viewer. 

EXTRA CREDIT: If your clones give us a narrative of some sort, you will earn FOUR extra credit points. 

PAST STUDENT WORK:

     

DIRECTIONS: 
1. Placing your camera in ONE spot.
2. Do not move the camera. The background of each individual photo needs to match precisely.
3. Take multiple photographs with yourself in a different spot each time. 
4. Set the timer, or have someone carefully push the shutter button for each of the photos, if you wish. It  will look similar to this symbol in/on your camera:

Once the photos are taken...
4. Stack the images in Photoshop.
5. Erase the parts that are not needed from each layer so that the final compressed image contains you and your clones.

NOTE: Do not move the camera between photos. Even minimal changes in the camera position will distort perspective and light. 

EXAMPLES

Click on images for larger view.

Here are over-the-top examples by Martin Liebscher. CLICK HERE for his site. 

Here's a guy that does cloned video. Not what we'll do, but great anyway. CLICK HERE for more.

10-MINI PROJECT #1 (Metaphor)

DIRECTIONS.

Make one (or more!) image for each of the words below:


-Hot / Cold

-Daydream / Nightmare

-Joy / Pain

-A pair of opposing words of your choice

-A second pair of opposing words of your choice.

Note: You are to make at least one photo to represent both the first and second word in the pairs - two photographs per pair. 

The image you make for each word will be a visual metaphor for that word. 

You are photographing an idea. 

What place/person/gesture/object/time of day/etc. will you 'use'  to photograph/represent the idea and notion of the word.

The photos will be used for a scored tutorial and image project during our next class.

Scoring: One point for each well-composed intentional image, for a total of 4 points

Enjoy the process. It's as important as the end result.

PROJECT #9: SABATTIER

STUDENT GALLERY: https://padlet.com/shohman1/l56wqc1a9aqg5mr4

©️ The School of Light

DIRECTIONS FOR DEVELOPING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS:

STEP ONE:
1. Take a photo to BLACK & WHITE.
2. Adjust the BRIGHTNESS + CONTRAST to enhance (deepen and brighten) the values in the photograph.
3. "SAVE AS" the image, and add "BW" to the end of the file name so you do not save over the original. 

STEP TWO:
1. Create a DUPLICATE LAYER of the background image (Layers palette).
2. Change BLENDING MODE to "EXCLUSION"
3. Open CURVES and adjust the histogram line to a "W" or an "M" to produce a SOLARIZED/SABATTIER image with MACKIE LINES.

Submit for credit:
5+ photos processed into Sabattier.
Post the original next to the processed image.
(That is 10+ photos total that are posted)

SABATTIER EFFECT.
Sometimes known as "solarization."

Mackie Lines. CLICK HERE.

How to. CLICK HERE.

PROJECT #8: MULTIPLE EXPOSURE

DIRECTIONS: Using your silhouettes & direct side-light photos, and other photos, combine your photos into various multiple exposures. Use BLEND MODE in the Layers Palette, to blend the various images in your layers. Erase or cut away parts of photos if needed...The beauty is in the unexpected.

Make EIGHT+ multiple exposure images.

*As with all projects, more well-completed images will earn extra credit. 

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Sara Byrne. CLICK HERE.
Christoffer Relander. CLICK HERE.
Dan Mountford. CLICK HERE.
Matt Wisniewski. CLICK HERE.
Nacho Oraechea. CLICK HERE.


Annie Kornberg


Nina Coleman


Hyesung Yu


Erik Radzik

Stefan moses.
Duane Michaels
Arturo Bragaglia
Student Work
Student work.
Student work.
Student work.
Student work.
Student work.

 Hohman.

PROJECT #7: LIGHT, Part 2 (Direct Side Light Portraits)

DIRECT SIDE LIGHT

*NOTE: The shadow(s) for these portraits should be dark

1. The light should illuminate your subject from an obvious side/direction.

A. IN CLASS, make FIVE+ photographs of your partner with this lighting.

B. AT HOME, make EIGHT+ photographs with this lighting of someone you live with. 

*. If you are using the same person for all eight images, move the light (or the subject) so that in each photo your human is illuminated a bit differently. The shadows might change shape and direction, and highlights will be in other places.

The differences might be slight, or dramatically obvious. Either way, you'll have a 'different' photo, and it is likely that one will be preferable over another (that's the point of doing multiples).

GENERAL NOTES:

*An obvious and distinctly dark shadow should be visible (dark side of the face)

**An obvious direction from where the light is emanating (coming in from one side only)

***Make sure the light you are using is NOT in the picture.

SUGGESTIONS:

*Use a small light to begin with, at night/in dark, and build from there.

**Possible light sources: small table lamp with/without the shade, cell phone flashlight, computer/laptop screen...

Front light vs. Side light. CLICK HERE.

     

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