PROJECT #7: SAKURA (Cherry blossom) (In class & over spring break)

IN CLASS DIRECTIONS: Make 20+ images as listed on the class pass.

SPRING BREAK DIRECTIONS: Be mindful of the APERTURE & ISO controls. The wider the aperture, the more out of focus the background will be. Explore your camera settings and make 20+ images of cherry blossoms.

Possible Ideas...
-overexpose the image (high key lighting. CLICK HERE)
-underexpose the image (low key lighting. CLICK HERE).
-flash at night
-a friend's hand & blossom in focus, while the rest of the background is out of focus (depth of field).
-more...


Nakamura's site. CLICK HERE.

PROJECT #6: LEADING LINES

DIRECTIONS in CLASS (4 points):
1. Make photos that are composed like those on the example sheet. 
2. Develop and post the photos to a post titled "LEADING LINES"

DIRECTIONS for HOMEWORK (4 points):
1. Make EIGHT (8+) more photos OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL that have one or two OBVIOUS leading lines that draw our eye to your subject matter. Due next class.

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Photo by Steve McCurry

Henri Cartier Bresson. Hyères, France. 1932

The lines that compose the Bresson photo:

(About the Hyères photo. CLICK HERE.)

Cartier-Bresson's site. CLICK HERE.

ANSEL ADAMS' ICONIC SNAKE RIVER PHOTOGRAPH:

Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, WY, 1942, photo, NARA, Records of the National Park Service, Washington, D.C.

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is thereby a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its entirety.”  Quote of Ansel Adams (1902-1984)*

Ansel Adams site. CLICK HERE.

AND MY PERSONAL ALL-TIME FAVORITE LEADING LINES IMAGE:

Grandmother. Brooklyn, NY.  1993. Eugene Richards.

Eugene Richards site. CLICK HERE.

BASIC EXAMPLES OF LEADING LINE:

PROJECT #4: Photographic Color Wheel (4 POINTS)

DIRECTIONS.
Using, as a guide, the color wheel we created in Photoshop, make a few photos for each of the 12 primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
We will be assembling them into a photographic color wheel.

EXAMPLE OF IN-CLASS TUTORIAL:



EXAMPLE OF AN 'IN-PROGESS' PHOTOGRAPHIC COLOR WHEEL: