Super Creepy Haloween Photos

Super creepy olde-tyme Haloween photos. 

LINK HERE

 

Contact Sheets

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Portraits with the Brenzier Method

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It's not too late to change your major...

No, seriously, it's not.

LINK HERE

Time Lapse Photography In A Single Frame

This is an interesting project dealing with compositing and serendipity.

Real World Instagram Filters

This is pretty cool. They figured out the camera/film combos required to get the most popular Instagram filters in real life.

LINK HERE

Forced Perspective

This is a cool project. Models, shooting on location, depth of focus, photographic trickery...it's all there.

LINK HERE

Death Portraits

Super creepy, super fun.

LINK HERE

Assignment #5 - Portraits

From Wikipedia (yeah, a terrible source, but I liked the definition...)

Portrait:

"A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer."



Three rules to this assignment...no, wait...SEVEN rules to this assignment.

Rule #1: NO MYSPACE PHOTOS - I think you all know what this means. You've seen 'em, you've taken 'em, I don't want 'em. If you need a reminder about what I'm talkin' 'bout, watch this video.

Rule #2: You need to shoot at least three different people.

Rule #3: No pets.

Rule #4: One of the people you photograph must be someone you do NOT know.

Rule #5: One of those three people MUST be yourself...but, you can't BE yourself...

Rule #6 No groups.

Rule #7 Present them in color (black and white portraits will be next)

Here is Cindy Sherman doing her version of Lucille Ball.
Regardless of which criteria you choose, you will turn in two prints, one print from each of the rolls that you shoot.

Prints due on Wednesday, October 16th.

Here is Cindy Sherman doing her version of Lucille Ball.



Here is a link to the National Portrait Gallery. You will get a lot of good ideas here from paintings, sculpture and photography.

National Portrait Gallery

Here is one of my favorite portrait photographers...Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon Portrait Gallery

Hiroshi Watanabe's gallery has a few sections of portraits that are interesting.

August Sander was a German photographer who made portraits of farmers and working class people near Cologne prior to World War II. After the Nazi's gained power, Sander continued to shoot the people in his city, many of them shown in Nazi military uniforms. Sander's portraits provide possibly the widest cross-section of Germans during that time.

Here is a self-portrait of me as Abraham Lincoln.



Due Tuesday, October 22nd.

One of each portrait due. I might have only told you to turn in two, but I want you to turn in one of each.

Here is our friend Steve McCurry talking about what you should do BEFORE YOU START PHOTOGRAPHING SOMEONE'S PORTRAIT.

Portraits Not As One's Self

This is a very cool project.

LINK HERE

When You're Bored...Make Good Selfies

Like this lady did.

LINK HERE

Civil War 150 Project

Please take some time...maybe even set aside a somewhat significant amount of time...and explore the site that contains Michael Falco's 'Civil War 150 Pinhole Project'.

It is very immense in it's scope, amazingly thorough in it's research, and the photography...well...the visuals he is capturing bring the Civil War to life the way Brady and O'Sullivan were not able to.

PLEASE don't gloss through this. Read the text. Look at the images. Give it the time that it deserves.

Use his project as a template for what I am going to be asking you to do for your final projects. Study it well. There is a LOT to learn here. 

LINK HERE

This Thursday, October 3rd is Library Day

Well what the heck does that mean? It means that we will NOT MEET in the classroom in the GT building at all that night.

Instead we will meet at the Starbucks in the UVU Library at 5:30. We'll go upstairs to where the photo books are at and each of you will get 15 minutes to find two books. One of the books you should really like a lot, one of the books you should really not like a lot. We will learn something from each of these photographers.

I don't care if you are familiar with them before you get to the library, but each of you will need to prepare something to discuss about each of your books. Remember, I'm giving you 15 minutes so you need to hustle and choose your books with enough time to look at them a bit and figure out what you like about them and what you DON'T like about them.

If you get lost or have to come late, please send me a text. 801-803-4818

See you on Thursday! You can wear your PJ's if you want. I'm going to wear a prom dress.

Assignment #4 - Color Theory

We will be jumping into Color Theory a lot for this assignment. Ready? Here we go!

Here's the color wheel. Study it. You will need to learn how the color wheel works and how you can apply that knowledge to these assignments. It's easier than you think.



For this assignment you will concentrate on a few different theories of color. That of complementary color and that of analogous and of monochromatic color.

Let's start with complimentary color. It is the easiest. Here is a chart. If I were you I'd print this out and take it home with you so that you have it to use as a reference.



Click on the image to make it larger and easier to read. Right click on this and save it to your folder and you can print it out later.

One of my students has figured out that if you think of sports teams, i.e. the Denver Broncos, the L.A. Lakers, etc...you will have a very good idea of what complimentary colors are.



Frankly I think if you remember the colors of Christmas you will be well on your way. What are the colors of Christmas? Red and green.



I want you to find OR CREATE a scene which you have two complimentary colors. I want you to take your time and find some good light, make an interesting composition, check and set your white balance (this is getting crucial right?!?!), and most importantly I want you to make a bunch of different exposures. BRACKET! Change your composition with the camera, change your composition of the objects. Get an interesting photograph! I want you to do at least one of these complimentary colors, do two if you are feeling ambitious. If you only do one you'd better work it and make sure that you have good exposures, good focus and good composition. Shoot a LOT of frames on this assignment.

Now let's talk about ANALOGOUS color. What's analogous color? Analogous color is similar to monochromatic color, but it gets to be quite a bit richer. Analogous colors are those colors that are adjacent on the color wheel. Let's look at this diagram:



Click on the image to make it larger and easier to read. Right click on this and save it to your folder and you can print it out later.

Monochromatic color got it's richness by the variations of light striking the object. Darker areas became a slightly different shade of that color, lighter areas where more light hit the object became a lighter shade of that one color.

Analogous color is *kind of* similar, except that I want you to find various colored objects that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Remember, to KEEP IT SIMPLE and you get to decide just how hard you make it on yourself. Don't try to choose too many colors. Stick with three...four at the most. This is something that you may want to create on your own. Men, ask your wives/girlfriends if they can help you find analogous color. They will love to show you how it works.

Here's a quick chart:



Here are some examples:







This seems like a big assignment. It kind of is. I want you to repeat for analogous color what you did for complimentary color. Shoot a LOT.

It'll be fun. Trust me!

Due date:10/15/2013

3 images on the blog and a few words about what you did. Post at least one example of complimentary, analogous and monochromatic for this assignment.