PROJECT #6: LIGHT, Part 1 (Silhouettes)

DIRECTIONS. 

Make SEVEN+ different silhouette (back light) photographs. Each photograph should have a uniquely shaped subject matter. 

HOW TO.
To create the silhouette effect, you must meter the exposure for the background (the brightest part of the image) and completely underexpose the foreground subject. To meter something means to tell the camera to measure  the light in the composition you are photographing.

When first learning silhouette photography sunrise and sunset are good times to practice because the sun can be positioned directly behind the subject you wish to underexpose. 

BE MINDFUL OF.

*Place your subject IN FRONT of the light source.
*Photograph from a dark place (or nighttime)...into the light
*ONE light source will give you greater success. 

*Use a person or pet as your subject matter. 
*Manipulate the position of the light (or yourself & subject) to achieve different cast shadows and highlights.

PHONE CAMERA

The metering happens when you tap the screen to lighten or darken your image. Tap the bright background light to make your subject in the middle becomes a silhouette. Then, take the picture.

SLR/MIRRORLESS CAMERA

See me with your

Silhouettes at The Atlantic. CLICK HERE.
Tips for killer silhouette photography. CLICK HERE.
50 examples. CLICK HERE.
How to photograph silhouettes. CLICK HERE.
Another how-to. CLICK HERE.

PROJECT #5: SYMMETRY

Image by Michael B. Stuart

SYMMETRY = the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis

SYMMETRICAL = made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis; showing symmetry.

Image by Tokkes

DIRECTIONS.
With your partner, make FIVE PHOTOS with your partner in the center of a composition that is horizontally symmetrical.

Each partner makes their own five photos (of the other partner). 

You are allowed not to show your face if you so choose. 

PROJECT #4: LEADING LINES

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


DIRECTIONS FOR HW (FOUR/4 POINTS): 
-Working with someone outside of school, make 5+ photographs that include ONE MAIN LEADING LINE that draws the viewer from the foreground, to the middle ground, and to the background to your MAIN SUBJECT MATTER, your person/pet. 
-Your choice of primary subject matter. 

MINIMUM NUMBER OF PHOTOS FOR SCORING: EIGHT/8

(You will have made ten+ photos. Your best eight will be posted to your site)

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EXAMPLES OF LEADING LINE:

A SPECTACULAR COMPOSITION BY STEVE McCURRY:

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.

A GREAT LEADING LINES IMAGE:

Grandmother. Brooklyn, NY.  1993. Eugene Richards.

Eugene Richards site. CLICK HERE.