After viewing the video on natural lighting, answer the following questions:
1. List and briefly explain the four tips, Mr. Kalisher gives on natural lighting.
2. Find four photographs on line that represent natural lighting described in the video. Put them in a keynote and tell me how they represent the lighting from the video.
3. Take four to six photographs using the tips in the video, put them in a slide show and discuss the tips you used and how they added to your photographs. (you can discuss this in the first slide)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The Americans
Please read the article or listen to the story "Americans: The Book that changed Photograph". Answer the following questions on your blog and label it Robert Frank.
1. How did this book change photography? Give examples.
2. What was Robert Frank doing in photography that was different?
3. Why do you think that the Museum of Modern Art rejected it while younger people caught onto it?
4. Give some examples of the type of photographs that Frank was shooting.
4. Look at some of Frank's photographs in the gallery. Pick two that stand out to you, if possible post them on your blog and describe why you liked them. Be sure to tell me the name of the photograph.
Robert Frank
1. How did this book change photography? Give examples.
2. What was Robert Frank doing in photography that was different?
3. Why do you think that the Museum of Modern Art rejected it while younger people caught onto it?
4. Give some examples of the type of photographs that Frank was shooting.
4. Look at some of Frank's photographs in the gallery. Pick two that stand out to you, if possible post them on your blog and describe why you liked them. Be sure to tell me the name of the photograph.
Robert Frank
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Street photography
Please go to the link What is street photography and do the following on a keynote:
1. Describe street photography in your own words.
2. Describe the challenges of street photography?
3. Find 10 of your most favorite street photographs. For each photograph, describe 2 elements of designs that are evident in each photograph and what you like about the photograph.
4. Would you like to use this style of photography? Explain.
1. Describe street photography in your own words.
2. Describe the challenges of street photography?
3. Find 10 of your most favorite street photographs. For each photograph, describe 2 elements of designs that are evident in each photograph and what you like about the photograph.
4. Would you like to use this style of photography? Explain.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Shutter speed and aperture photo-shoot
Description: Please pre-view the website on photographs of aperture and shutter speed. In this assignment, you will explore the relation between aperture and depth of field. The objective of this assignment is to get you familiarized with aperture and shutter speed, so you are not required to shoot anything fancy. You can start shooting something as un-fancy as a bottle. Several bottles one behind the other is even better.
1. Using the greenhouse, set up three plants in a row. Focus your camera in the middle.
2. Using your shot sheet record decide on six aperture settings from f2 to f28.
3. Set your camera to aperture priority. Then as you shoot on each aperture setting, record the shutter speed setting. Note what is happening each time you take a photograph. (Is the shutter speed staying open for a long time? Why?
4. After you finish, download your photographs, keeping them in the same order. Then transfer them to a keynote. On each slide, note the aperture and shutter speed. Answer the following questions on one of your slides:
1. What is happening to your photographs as you go for f2 to f29? Why?
2. Why are some of your shots blurry?
3. Which photographs are in sharp focus? Why?
4. What do you notice is happening to your foreground, midground and background as you increase your aperture? Why?
5. Any other observations?
1. Using the greenhouse, set up three plants in a row. Focus your camera in the middle.
2. Using your shot sheet record decide on six aperture settings from f2 to f28.
3. Set your camera to aperture priority. Then as you shoot on each aperture setting, record the shutter speed setting. Note what is happening each time you take a photograph. (Is the shutter speed staying open for a long time? Why?
4. After you finish, download your photographs, keeping them in the same order. Then transfer them to a keynote. On each slide, note the aperture and shutter speed. Answer the following questions on one of your slides:
1. What is happening to your photographs as you go for f2 to f29? Why?
2. Why are some of your shots blurry?
3. Which photographs are in sharp focus? Why?
4. What do you notice is happening to your foreground, midground and background as you increase your aperture? Why?
5. Any other observations?
Aperture and Shutter speed
After reading the website on Introduction to shutter speed and aperture, answer the following questions. Please post the answers on your blog and label it classwork.
1. Define aperture.
2. Define shutter-speed.
3. What do both controls have in common?
4. What is the main difference between the two?
5. The longer the shutter speed the more...
6. The shorter the shutter speed the less...
7. What is another term for aperture?
8. What are the stops for shutter speed listed in order of most light to least?
9. What are the strops for aperture listed in order of most light to least?
10. What does aperture control?
11. What does shutter speed control?
12. How do you decide whether to set aperture of shutter speed setting first?
1. Define aperture.
2. Define shutter-speed.
3. What do both controls have in common?
4. What is the main difference between the two?
5. The longer the shutter speed the more...
6. The shorter the shutter speed the less...
7. What is another term for aperture?
8. What are the stops for shutter speed listed in order of most light to least?
9. What are the strops for aperture listed in order of most light to least?
10. What does aperture control?
11. What does shutter speed control?
12. How do you decide whether to set aperture of shutter speed setting first?
Composition of thirds photo-shoot
Composition of thirds photograph assignment: Use a digital camera to take photographs around the school (inside or out) that utilize composition of thirds. Download your photographs on I-photo edit your photographs. Title each photograph and in a keynote presentation and on one slide be able to describe how you used composition of thirds and what impact it had on your photographs.
Elements of design photo-shoot
Elements of design photo assignment: Use a digital camera to take photographs around the school (inside or out) focusing on two to three of the elements of design. Download your photographs and do some editing on I-photo. Choose six of your best shots and be able to describe two to three elements are used in each photograph in a keynote presentation.
History of American Photography Video #2
HISTORY OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY PART 2
1. What was so significant about wiring a photograph in 1935 and why was it difficult?
2. What did Life magazine do so perfect that made it such a huge success?
3.What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
4. What did Ray Striker want Gordon Parks to do with his photography?
5. Why has Ansel Adams’ photography grown to be so important?
6. How was the role of photography different in WW11 than WW1?
7. What image was Robert Capa trying to capture during WW11?
8. What was so important about the photographs at the concentration camps?
9. Describe Edward Steichen’s exhibition “The Family Man” in 1955.
10. What type of photography is Avadon and Irving Penn known for?
11. Describe the images of the American Family as seen photographs during the 1950’s.
12. How was Robert Frank’s photography different from the typical American family?
1. What was so significant about wiring a photograph in 1935 and why was it difficult?
2. What did Life magazine do so perfect that made it such a huge success?
3.What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?
4. What did Ray Striker want Gordon Parks to do with his photography?
5. Why has Ansel Adams’ photography grown to be so important?
6. How was the role of photography different in WW11 than WW1?
7. What image was Robert Capa trying to capture during WW11?
8. What was so important about the photographs at the concentration camps?
9. Describe Edward Steichen’s exhibition “The Family Man” in 1955.
10. What type of photography is Avadon and Irving Penn known for?
11. Describe the images of the American Family as seen photographs during the 1950’s.
12. How was Robert Frank’s photography different from the typical American family?
History of American Photography Video #1
HISTORY OF AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY PART 1
Direction: Answer the following questions and put answers in my inbox.
1. What year was the Brownie camera invented and why was the camera so important to the average person?
2. How did the National Geographic change in 1905 and what impact did this change have on magazine?
3. Who was Edward Curtis and what was he known for?
4. What is the Photo-sucessionist movement? Who started it?
5. Who was Lewis Hine and why was his photography important?
6. Who was Paul Strand and why was he significant?
7. What was photography used for during WW1?
8. In 1919 photographs began to appear on the front page of the tabloids. What were the photographs being used for?
9. Photography became an important part of advertising in the 1920’s, why was it more
successful than drawings?
10. How did photography start playing a major role with celebrities in the the 1920’s?
11. What was so significant about being able to use photography for space and astronomy?
Direction: Answer the following questions and put answers in my inbox.
1. What year was the Brownie camera invented and why was the camera so important to the average person?
2. How did the National Geographic change in 1905 and what impact did this change have on magazine?
3. Who was Edward Curtis and what was he known for?
4. What is the Photo-sucessionist movement? Who started it?
5. Who was Lewis Hine and why was his photography important?
6. Who was Paul Strand and why was he significant?
7. What was photography used for during WW1?
8. In 1919 photographs began to appear on the front page of the tabloids. What were the photographs being used for?
9. Photography became an important part of advertising in the 1920’s, why was it more
successful than drawings?
10. How did photography start playing a major role with celebrities in the the 1920’s?
11. What was so significant about being able to use photography for space and astronomy?
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