IntroPHOTO_TmPg

	INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY Major Projects


PORTRAITS & CANDIDS	Photoshop & Inkjet Prints	NATURAL & ABSTRACT
Geordana W-P. '01	Alexa M. '05	Thomas M. '97

Major Projects

Roll 1:
The 12 O'Clock Portrait

Your partner in Portrait mode, 12 O'Clock Portrait. Learning camera basics. Introduction to film lab and darkroom printing.


Portrait Mode		12 O'Clock Self-Portrait

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Print 1:
The Proof Sheet

Proof sheets are "contact prints" of your developed film. Proof sheets will be made for every roll of film a student shoots throughout the course. Proof sheets are made immediately after a newly developed roll of film is dry.

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Print 2:
The 5x7

Our initial lessons in photographic printing use the 5x7 paper format. These prints are mounted on gray cover stock with artist's tape. They are then placed in clear plastic sleeves.

Students generally print 1-3 frames from Roll #1 and 4-5 frames from Rolls 2-3. At least one of these prints will be exhibited in the format pictured above.

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Print 3:
The Photogram

Roll 2:
Creative Exposure Workout

Explore the different picture-making effects of aperture and shutter priority film exposure. Create pictures based on deep depth-of-field, selective focus, motion blur, camera pan, and silhouettes. Use 24 exposure film length. Continue practice in 5x7 darkroom printing.

Note: Different combinations of shutter and aperture settings can achieve the same exposure value, but they make different kinds of pictures. Try them on the same subject. For instance, try shooting the same subject with both a deep depth of field and with selective focus. Try shooting a moving subject with both a quick shutter speed and a slow one. Compare the difference between each shot by closely examining your proof sheet.

Creative Exposure Workout

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Roll 3:
Styles

Required: Abstract Realism
& Creative POVs (24 frames)

Optional : Straight Photography
& Descriptive Detail
(12 additional frames)

Abstract Realism & Creative POVs: Use dynamic composition to emphasize the visual elements of point, line, shape, form, value, texture and space in order to create visually interesting, and emotionally evocative images from the real world.

Frame your compositions in a manner that emphasizes the visual elements and/or that shows us your subjects in an unusual, but meaningful way.

Continue to explore a variety of camera exposure modes.

Abstract Realism & Creative POVs

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Option (12 additinal frames)

Straight Photography and Descriptive Detail: Find subjects like simple objects, ordinary spaces, and calm, self-composed people.

Frame your compositions in a manner that emphasizes the essential and/or unique visual qualities of the subject's character and appearance. Look carefully. Move in close for frames which show us details that clearly belong to the whole subject, but show us something special and revealing.

Continue to explore a variety of camera exposure modes.

Straight Photography and Descriptive Detail

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Flexible Vision

Option (36 exposures)

Flexible Vision :

Using a 36 exposure roll of film, shoot about 8 frames each of Abstract Realism, Creative POV, Straight Photography, and Descriptive Detail. Be able to identify, as best you can, the approach you took with each frame.

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Prints 4 & 5 :

Roll #2

Roll #3

Students will be required to print at least one frame from Roll #2 (Exposure Workout) and one frame from Roll #3 (Abstract Realism).

These 5x7 prints will be mounted on gray cover stock with artist's tape and placed in clear plastic sleeves.

At least one of these prints will be exhibited.

After completing these two prints, students may experiment with the 8x10 format or they may continue with the 5x7 format.

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Extra Credit:

If you are very dedicated to exploring photography and have completed your work for the 24 Shot Exposure Workout, these two Extra Credit projects may interest you. Please ask your instructor if an extra credit project is appropriate for you.

Project 1:
24 POVs

24 POVs: Show a single subject from various points of view (POVs). Refine composition and exposure techniques. Continue practice in 5x7 darkroom printing.

24 POVs

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Project 2:
Picture A Theme

Option 3

Picture A Theme: Examine the photographic themes pictured by previous students on our HWMS Visual Arts Gallery page. (See Gallery > Intro Photo > Jump Menu). There you may will find pictures on themes such as: Siblings, Still Life, Space & Place, Campus Candids, Animals Up-Close, Plants & Flowers, and Sign Segments.

Choose two or three of these themes and shoot 12 to 8 frames on each one. Use a 24 exposure length of film. Continue practice in 5x7 darkroom printing

Picture A Theme

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Final Project

Coloring with Color Mode
Selective Coloring
Monotones

Coloring with Photoshop: A black and white print from your darkroom work to scan on the Epson Photo Stylus flatbed scanner at your Computer Graphics work station.

It will be retouched and colored in "Color Mode" using basic Adobe Photoshop skills on Macintosh G4 computers. It is then printed on an Epson Photo Stylus color inkjet printer. This is an introduction to digital image editing.

Coloring with Photoshop

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Print 6:
The Epson Ink Jet Print

After students have retouched and colored the digital version of their B/W print, students will complete their Adobe Photoshop lessons by adding a border and text to the image.

Students will then use the Custom and Advanced options available with the Epson Stylus Photo printer so they may adjust selective ink RGB and "Saturation" settings.

These prints will be displayed in clear plastic sleeves.

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Print 7:
The 8 x 10 B/W print
(Optional)

Students who have completed all of their previous work may use dry mount paper to mount selected 8x10 prints on gray matt board.

Some of these prints will be exhibited.

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Updated: September 9, 2007