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.

HISTORY (Ongoing)

HISTORY
JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE 
France.
Made the first photograph
1827
Eight hour (approx.) exposure time
  



FIRST PHOTO OF A PERSON - 1838
by Louis Daguerre (Daguerreotype)
Boulevard du Temple, Paris, France.

FIRST "SELFIE"

Robert Cornelius. 1839

Scientist & experimented w/the new technology.

Philadelphia.

MATHEW BRADY

Civil War photographer.

1860s

One of the first events where the public saw casualties of war printed in newspapers.

JULIA MARGARET CAMERON

1815-1879

Known for soft focus and 'painterly' quality of her images.

Was panned as not serious enough as a photographer. 

Accepted by painters (pre-Raphaelites) more than photographers.

Close-cropped portraits are inspiration for photographers today.