Architecture Project

For your architecture project, edit a minimum of 6-8 photos to help you determine which is your best. Adjust color, brightness/contrast, levels, and crop for best composition. You may use other tools and/or filters, but make sure whatever you do ENHANCES your photo. Choose your best picture of a man-made, permanent exterior structure (or a close-up detail of same) and make into a 5x7 JPEG. Save a copy for yourself, and submit to the completed assignments folder using your ID number. This is due on Friday, September 28, 2007.

PhotoShop Quiz

You will be given a quiz on Friday, September 21st, on the new PhotoShop skills you have learned this week. You will primarily need to understand the use of the dodge, burn, and sponge tools.

First Photo Shoot!!

Your Architecture Project will consist of your 12 best shots on a contact sheet and one 5x7 JPEG. You will take 36-40 shots (same as a roll of film) and narrow it down from there. You will be shooting man-made, permanent structures. It can be the entire structure (a barn, church, pier, etc.) or just an architectural feature (a window, door, moulding, cornice, steeple, etc.). Your photo can include people or animals, but they should be incidental---not the focus of the shot. On Monday, September 24th, you will turn in your 12 best shots on a contact sheet. If you don't have 12 shots in the completed assignments folder by the end of class, you will take a zero on the deadline grade. Beginning on the 24th, we'll start editing those photos!! You should edit at least 6-12 photos to be able to determine which is your best shot. Go for something unusual. Pay attention to shadows and color. You may use a filter on this photo, but make sure it ENHANCES the picture. Think...calendar shot! We are going for either beauty, or very high interest. Your final photo will be due on Friday, September 28th. During the week you will learn lots of new techniques to use on your photos. It will be fun!! You can continue to take more architectural shots all during the week if you find that you are not satisfied with what you have on the 24th. Your final photo does not have to be on the contact sheet.
Good examples of architectural photos can be found at:
http://photo.net/learn/architectural/exterior

History of Photography Test

Your test on the History of Photography is coming up Monday, September 17th. Please study the worksheets from the two reading assignments and the film. Also, you should know the important facts I reiterated on the photographers presented. The test will consist of 35 multiple choice questions, and three essay.

Make sure you know these photographers:
Louis Daguere
Talbot
Lewis Hine
Walker Evans
Ansel Adams
Yousuf Karsh
Margaret Bourke-White
Edwin Land
Eastman
Clarence White
Marion Post Wilcott
Roy DeCarava
Steiglitz
Brady
O'Sullivan
Dorothea Lange
William Henry Jackson
Edward Weston

...and these terms (and their significance to photography):
Camera Obscura
Collodion
Stereoscopic Camera
Speed Graphic
35mm
FSA
F/64 Group
Calotype
Daguereotype
Polaroid
Little Galleries (291)
Yellowstone
Yosemite