PROJ #6: LEADING LINES

DIRECTIONS IN CLASS (FOUR/4 POINTS): 
-Make 5+ photographs that include at least ONE MAIN LEADING LINE that draws the viewer from the foreground, to the middle ground, and to the background to your PRIMARY SUBJECT MATTER.
-Your choice of primary subject matter. 


DIRECTIONS FOR HW (FOUR/4 POINTS): 
-Make 5+ photographs that include at least ONE MAIN LEADING LINE that draws the viewer from the foreground, to the middle ground, and to the background to your PRIMARY SUBJECT MATTER.
-Your choice of primary subject matter. 

TOTAL PHOTOS NEEDED FOR SCORING: EIGHT/8

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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:

PROJ #5: RULE of THIRDS PORTRAITS

DIRECTIONS:

• IN CLASS: Make 10+ different photographs of your partner (list below)

• AT HOME: Make 10+ different photographs of one or two people at home/out of school. (These will be added to the images you made in class.)

• Compose the frame with the RULE OF THIRDS.
• Bring all images to next class. 

*Turn on the GRID display on your screen (phone/camera)

THE LIST:
Make one+ image each from the list below.
Place your person in one of the intersections of your rule of thirds grid. 

1. A serious expression
2. A smiling(ish) expression
3. The subject looking over their shoulder back at the camera.
4. From above (Your subject looking up at the camera=you are above your subject in some way)
5. Half of the face only (put one of their eyes in the intersections of rule of thirds)
6. From the shoulders up (their head in one of the intersections of rule of thirds)
7. Full body in the composition.
8-10. Any combination of the above seven in this list. 

When complete, you should have a total of TEN images minimum...but MORE is better. 
Make a few of each to insure you have good quality images when you get to your computer in class.

WHAT IS RULE OF THIRDS?
(Review: You are to place your subject matter in one of the intersecting points of the grid)

Here is a great Link. CLICK HERE.

PROJECT #4: THE OBSERVED ALPHABET

DIRECTIONS: 
1. Using your 'photographer's eye', find the letters of the alphabet.
2. Letters are not to be printed, fabricated, or arranged to make a letter. 
*Example: Do not photograph the 'F' in the Fred Meyer sign...or move a garden hose into the shape of and 'S.'

 

DESCRIPTION:
As photographers, we often look for interesting situations, places, and things that have the potential for making good photographs. Sometimes we see something that looks like something else, such as a cloud that looks like an animal, car, or face.

Turn your skills of perception toward finding and photographing things that look like letters of the alphabet. For this project, you will FIND and photograph 26 letters of the alphabet. Do not photograph letters that already exist (i.e. on a store sign, etc.), or arrange subject matter to form a letter. This project is  about observation and learning to see the world in a new way.

RATIONALE: 
The project is an exercise in training your eye to see what you normally would not see. Stretching what your eyes see, and your mind perceives, is an exercise in creative seeing and thinking.

A FEW IDEAS:
Textism.com HERE.
Cheesy, but fun HERE.
Full alphabet HERE.

WHAT NOT TO DO:
Actual letter HERE (Not to be done this way).
Photographic alphabet around the house HERE.