Portrait Exercise

Portrait / Framing Exercise

Use your camera to create a portrait of a classmate.  Remember to use some simpleideas to turn the would-be snapshots into photographs:

  RULE OF THIRDS

Divide frame to three parts vertically and horizontally and place subject where the lines crossas opposed to center.

POINT OF VIEW

Change your point of view. Instead of eye level try above, below and behind.

DISTANCE AND PLACEMENT

Come close and move far back. Do not be afraid to get close!

FRAMING

Use these 4 types of framing in at least 16 exposures.  

Submit 1 print of each framing technique. 4 prints total.

Friday June 7 9am

UV Filter - Filter to protect lens

Polarizing Filter - Filter that helps get rid of unwanted reflections.

Nuetral Density Filter - Enables photographers to decrease the depth of field, use slow shutter speeds, and decrease the effective ISO

White Balance Symbols

Exposure Triangle Parts (Understand linked diagram and be able to answer questions related to diagram)

Identify these cameras ( Rangefinder(Leica), SLR, Field Camera, View Camera, Medium Format camera (Hasselblad)

What is a photogram cameraless photograph

Photoshop - robust photo editing product that can be used manipulate photos, create design, create photomontages.

Lightroom - organizes all your pictures into catalogs. It allows simple editing of pictures.

 

What are the skills you need to be a professional 1. Software knowledge 2. Lighting 3. Camera use 4. Context/Photography History 5. Understanding your individual creative process 

• Grey card 18% grey value

• Identify Spot Meter, Matrix/Evaluative, and Center Weighted Meter

• Ambient/Incident unique type of meter that reads light falling on subject.

• Rule of Thirds

• Golden Ratio

• Contrast - difference in value within a photograph

• Enlarger - used in dark room to make a photographic print

• Bellows - looks like an accordion and aids in focusing in the darkroom and large format camera's

 

M -  Manual Mode change your aperture and shutter yourself

A / AV - Aperture Priority

S /TV - Shutter Priority

 (P) - Program Automatic mode

• Noise random speckles and grain or variation of brightness or color info in pictures.

• Exposure amount of light that reaches your film or sensor when you take your picture.

• Contrast difference in Values in photograph

• Lens speed refers to the maximum aperture diameter, or minimum f-number, of a photographic lens.

• Robert Frank (Photographer who roamed the United States in the 1950’s and is associated with the beat generation.)

• Pieter Hugo (Photographer interested in the issues connected with Africa.)

• Seydou Keita (Commercial photographer in Africa who worked in the 1950’s & 1960’s whose work rose to the level of art.)

• Jacqueline Hassink (Photographs critiqued corporate boardrooms and how woman were used to sell cars.)

• Carrie Mae Weems (Photographer whose primary concern in art, as in politics, is with the status and place of African-Americans.)

• Cindy Sherman ( Photographs use post modern ideas to critique female gender stereotypes )

• Andreas Gursky (Photographer who is interested not in the individual, but the human environment.  Images focus on globalism.)

• William Eggleston ( Photographed the American South using color film & had what he called a democratic way of looking.)

• Tomatsu Shomie (Photographer that photographed objects, locations, and the people of Nagasaki.)

• Gary Winnogrand (Street photographer who used a range finder camera to capture the drama theater of the street.)
• Catherine Opie (Documents the people of Southern California by focusing on football players and surf culture and local Los Angeles shopkeepers.)