Minimum of 55-60 images shot/at least 10 edited_Due Date: Thursday: August 31st
Color Photography is the gathering of light and color! Being aware of light and color, and their qualities and understanding the way they affects your photographs can be the difference between an ordinary image and an effective one. Before you can render and capture light/color you must be able to see light and color. This assignment is designed to get you looking at the way light strikes or falls on your subjects rendering the color of the objects, creating depth, texture and form, this assignment is also allowing you to see light and color as a subject worth of further exploration. Students seek out naturally occurring relationships between light and color. Recognize obvious as well as abstract juxtapositions. You must use daylight and available light. Place your camera settings on daylight with white balance.
If you have a hard time visualizing the assignment, then follow the instruction below.
Part 1: Set your white balance to daylight and make 5 different landscape photographs under the following lighting conditions: Sun rise, early morning, midday, late afternoon, and sunset. - Total of 25 images.
You may choose the same location for all of your photographs or choose different locations.
When photographing indoors, do not use artificial light.
Part 2: Set your white balance to daylight and photograph 5 different photographs of a person illuminated by:
Morning light, midday light, late afternoon light, tungsten light, TV or computer screen, candle, and flash (if possible)- Total of 30 - 35images.
You may use yourself and/or different people. Vary camera angles and framing. For each portrait have at least one close-up and one full body photograph.
Daylight | Natural Lighting
Incandescent | Tungsten | Fluorescent Lighting
Mixed Lighting | Combination of Daylight, Incandescent, Tungsten, and/or Fluorescent Lighting
Night Lighting | Flash
Don't forget to be creative and artistic!!!!
For this assignment you should adjust your shooting mode to fully manual. Donʼt forget to refer to your meter to make sure the exposures are correct. If your meter is showing an over or under-exposure be sure to make the necessary adjustments.
DO NOT USE FLASH and avoid an overcast day if possible.
Be carful to steady your camera during in low light situations and use tripod
Do not adjust the white balance in camera raw.
Remember to:
- Set camera mode to manual
- Set your camera to RAW
- Set white balance to daylight
- Set camera color space to Adobe RGB
- Pay attention to your camera meter, if it indicates over/under exposure make the necessary adjustments
- Use the ISO to adjust exposure if necessary
- Bracket your exposures: +1/2, +1, –1/2, and –1 stop
- You may need to lower or raise the ISO to complete the assignment
- Do not settle
- Try to avoid major cropping in postproduction
- All adjustments and spotting is to be done using layers
- Tripod or some sort of stabilizing surface [camera shake is unacceptable]
10 Final edited digital images – TIFF/PSD files with smart object embedded
10 Final edited images resized for web – 1200 pixels long dimension – jpg format
Shooting Assignment 2: Portrait and Space
Minimum of 50-60 shots: at least 10 edited: Due date: Oct 19th (thursday)
4 images 8"x10" Printed or Larger
Pair up with a classmate if needed.
It has been said that it isn’t possible to truly capture a person’s essence through the camera, but what you can capture is the interaction that you are having with the person that you are photographing. With this in mind try to reveal something about your subject, something that makes this person the individual that he or she is.
For this assignment you will be photographing people in an environment that adds information about the person. This can be their environment (where they live or work) or it can be a location (Indoor and Outdoor) that you find interesting. You might photograph five different people where they live or take portraits of the one person in five different locations, or photograph five different people in the same location. Whatever concept you decide on carry it through the entire assignment.
In summary, use one person in the image (can be same person for every 5 locations) and/or several different people in one locations/5 different locations.
Do not adjust the white balance in camera raw.
Remember to:
- Set camera mode to manual
- Set your camera to RAW
- Set white balance to daylight
- Set camera color space to Adobe RGB
- Pay attention to your camera meter, if it indicates over/under exposure make the necessary adjustments
- Use the ISO to adjust exposure if necessary
- Bracket your exposures: +1/2, +1, –1/2, and –1 stop
- You may need to lower or raise the ISO to complete the assignment
- Do not settle
- Try to avoid major cropping in postproduction
- All adjustments and spotting is to be done using layers
- Tripod or some sort of stabilizing surface [camera shake is unacceptable]
Requirements:
10 Final edited digital images – TIFF/PSD files with smart object embedded
10 Final edited images resized for web – 1200 pixels long dimension – jpg format
Shooting Assignment 2: Portrait and Space
Minimum of 50-60 shots: at least 10 edited: Due date: Oct 19th (thursday)
4 images 8"x10" Printed or Larger
Pair up with a classmate if needed.
It has been said that it isn’t possible to truly capture a person’s essence through the camera, but what you can capture is the interaction that you are having with the person that you are photographing. With this in mind try to reveal something about your subject, something that makes this person the individual that he or she is.
For this assignment you will be photographing people in an environment that adds information about the person. This can be their environment (where they live or work) or it can be a location (Indoor and Outdoor) that you find interesting. You might photograph five different people where they live or take portraits of the one person in five different locations, or photograph five different people in the same location. Whatever concept you decide on carry it through the entire assignment.
In summary, use one person in the image (can be same person for every 5 locations) and/or several different people in one locations/5 different locations.
Take portraits where the person relates to the space you put them in. It may be indoor or outdoor; natural or created light.
Artists to Reference:
Artists to Reference:
August Sander
Arnold Newman
Diane Arbus
Nicholas Nixon
Bruce Davidson
Sally Mann
Nan Goldin
Hellen van Meene
Rineke Dijkstra
Lise Sarfati
Katy Grannan
Shelby Lee Adams
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Roger Ballen
Keith Carter
Adrienne Salinger
Jim Stone
Tina Barney
Alec Soth
Brian Ulrich
Gillian Wearing
House Rules:
All photographing is to be done outside of class.
There will be some lab time given in class to work on your prints but expect to have to give an additional 2 - 4 hours a week of outside class time image editing and printing. Please see posted lab times.
Prints must be ready for critique on the assigned date. Please review the following critique day policies. If you do not have any or all of your prints for critique day it is strongly advised you show up to avoid further reduction of grade. Students will be allowed one (1) week after the critique to improve their prints (this does not include re-shooting). Late assignments will not be allowed reprint time. Reprints must be of prints shown during critique and will be due one week following critique. Please turn in you prints in a folder that has your name on the outside cover.
Requirements: Due Date: Tuesday October 17th
Diane Arbus
Nicholas Nixon
Bruce Davidson
Sally Mann
Nan Goldin
Hellen van Meene
Rineke Dijkstra
Lise Sarfati
Katy Grannan
Shelby Lee Adams
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Roger Ballen
Keith Carter
Adrienne Salinger
Jim Stone
Tina Barney
Alec Soth
Brian Ulrich
Gillian Wearing
House Rules:
All photographing is to be done outside of class.
There will be some lab time given in class to work on your prints but expect to have to give an additional 2 - 4 hours a week of outside class time image editing and printing. Please see posted lab times.
Prints must be ready for critique on the assigned date. Please review the following critique day policies. If you do not have any or all of your prints for critique day it is strongly advised you show up to avoid further reduction of grade. Students will be allowed one (1) week after the critique to improve their prints (this does not include re-shooting). Late assignments will not be allowed reprint time. Reprints must be of prints shown during critique and will be due one week following critique. Please turn in you prints in a folder that has your name on the outside cover.
Requirements: Due Date: Tuesday October 17th
10 Final edited images – TIFF/PSD files with smart object embedded
10 Final edited images resized for web – 1200 pixels long dimension – jpg format
4 Final 8x10 Prints or larger
If you are in need of help outside of the scheduled class time please see me during my office hours or make an appointment by e-mail. Group appointments to answer technical questions are advised and very much appreciated.
