Daily Photo #17

Edward Henry Weston 

Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers…"[1] and "one of the masters of 20th century photography."[2] Over the course of his 40-year career Weston photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects, including landscapes, still lifes, nudes, portraits, genre scenes and even whimsical parodies. It is said that he developed a "quintessentially American, and specially Californian, approach to modern photography"[3] because of his focus on the people and places of the American West. In 1937 Weston was the first photographer to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and over the next two years he produced nearly 1,400 negatives using his 8 × 10 view camera. Some of his most famous photographs were taken of the trees and rocks at Point Lobos, California, near where he lived for many years.
Weston was born in Chicago and moved to California when he was 21. He knew he wanted to be a photographer from an early age, and initially his work was typical of the soft focus pictorialism that was popular at the time. Within a few years, however, he abandoned that style and went on to be one of the foremost champions of highly detailed photographic images.
In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he stopped photographing soon thereafter. He spent the remaining ten years of his life overseeing the printing of more than 1,000 of his most famous images.

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Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

Flash Photo Project : Photo Manipulation

Jeison Munguia - Edison Tech Photo Student

Essential question: 

How can I use the apps in my phone to create an interesting and unique piece of art using photographs I take with my phone? 

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This is a one week assignment with an in class photo critique inspired by the Mobile Photo Awards. You will take photos using your phone that you must manipulate heavily with several of your phone's apps. You must post your best photo to your blog AND write a reflection! Your photo MUST be posted to your blog in order to receive full credit plus the reflection!

Project Requirements:

1). Post to your blog, one quality edited photograph that is manipulated heavily using several of your phone's photo/art editing apps.

2). Photos are to be taken by you using the settings and filters in your cell phone or camera.

3). Photo should fit all criteria of good photography discussed up this point. (ie. composition, defined vantage & focal points; proper lighting & contrast; interesting angles; clear subjects in focus; a sense of narrative that tells a story; backgrounds that adds to, rather than detract from, the subject of the photo)

4). You must write a reflection in the same blog post as the final edited photo.

 Use the Rule of Thirds to help with the overall composition.

Students must post their results to their blogs to get credit and a grade for this assignment. 

Daily Photo #16

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Arguably the youngest master photographer ever, Jacques-Henri-Lartigue took family photos that captured the ‘joie de la vie’ of an era. Jacques-Henri Lartigue was 8 years old when his father gave him his first camera. Little did he suspect that one day young Jacques' extraordinary photos would be displayed in museums and published in books. The photo on the right shows Jacques-Henri holding the big glass plate camera his father had just given him. With that camera, and many others to come, little Jacques produced an enormous photographic record of the joys and wonders of family life, an achievement any of today's grown-up photographers would be proud to have created.

But for decades his fantastic images remained sealed up in photo albums and scrapbooks meant as family keepsakes, not as photographic treasures to share with the world. That is, until Jacques-Henri was 69 years old, and his photographic genius was finally seen and recognized by the art world.

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Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

Daily Photo #15

Robert Doisneau's Le baiser de l'hotel de ville (Kiss by the Hotel de)

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. Doisneau was known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of amusing juxtapositions, mingling social classes, and eccentrics in contemporary Paris streets and cafes.
Influenced by the work of André Kertész, Eugène Atget, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, in more than twenty books he presented a charming vision of human frailty and life as a series of quiet, incongruous moments.

"The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street." — Robert Doisneau

Doisneau's work gives unusual prominence and dignity to children's street culture; returning again and again to the theme of children at play in the city, unfettered by parents. His work treats their play with seriousness and respect.

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Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

Daily Photo #14

Don McCullin : Cyprus, 1964: A grieving woman and her family

Donald "Don" McCullin, CBE Hon FRPS (9 October 1935) is a British photojournalist, particularly recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialized in examining the underside of society, and his photographs have depicted the unemployed, downtrodden and the impoverished.

[As]One of Britain’s most celebrated and respected photographers [he] has lamented the digital domination of his field, calling it “a totally lying experience” that cannot be trusted.
Don McCullin, one of the world’s finest photographers of war and disaster, said the digital revolution meant viewers could no longer trust the truthfulness of images they see. He said photography had been “hijacked” because “the digital cameras are extraordinary. I have a dark room and I still process film but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience, you can move anything you want … the whole thing can’t be trusted really.” ...

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Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

Life on the Sidelines: Bill Wippert

Bill Wippert

https://www.buffalobills.com/video/life-on-the-sidelines-bill-wippert

My Rochester: Journalistic Photography

Essential questions: 

How can I use the composition elements of: Line, Space, Shape, Shadow, Setting & Context to create interesting journalistic photographs with good contrast and composition about Rochester? 

How can I capture on film the natures and personalities of my subjects in a way that my viewers can understand and relate to?

You will take photos, trying to capture, Journalistic Photography in interesting ways in black and white. You must post your best photos to your blog AND write a 250 word reflection following the instructions on the class blog post and you must have at least 12 photo examples of Journalistic Photography posted to your blog in order to receive full credit plus the reflection!

Also, include a few sentences describing what you learned from this exercise about Journalistic photography and how you were influenced by Journalistic photos from  photographic work you have seen in the context of this class.

Project Requirements:

1). 12-15 quality, edited (if necessary) photographs of Journalistic Photography of unique individuals united by the theme “My Rochester”.

2). Photos are to be black & white using the settings and filters in your cell phone or camera.

3). Photos should fit all criteria of good photography discussed up this point. (ie. composition, defined vantage & focal points; proper lighting & contrast; interesting angles; clear subjects in focus; a sense of narrative that tells a story; backgrounds that adds to, rather than detract from, the subject of the photo)

4). 250 word artist statement in the same blog post as the final 12 edited photos

 Use the Rule of Thirds to help with the overall composition.

Students must post their results to their your blogs to get credit and a grade for this assignment. 

My Rochester: Portraits

Essential questions: 

How can I use the composition elements of: Line, Space, Shape, Shadow, Setting & Context to create interesting portrait photographs with good contrast and composition about individuals in Rochester? 

How can I capture on film the natures and personalities of my subjects in a way that my viewers can understand and relate to?

You will take photos, trying to capture, Portrait Photography in interesting ways in black and white. You must post your best photos to your blog AND write a 250 word reflection following the instructions on the class blog post and you must have at least 12 photo examples of Portraits posted to your blog in order to receive full credit plus the reflection!

Also, include a few sentences describing what you learned from this exercise about Portraits & Illustration in photography and how you were influenced by Martin Munkacsi and Richard Avadon's photographic portrait work.

Project Requirements:

1). 12-15 quality, edited (if necessary) photographs of Portrait Photography of unique individuals united by the theme “My Rochester”.

2). Photos are to be black & white using the settings and filters in your cell phone or camera.

3). Photos should fit all criteria of good photography discussed up this point. (ie. composition, defined vantage & focal points; proper lighting & contrast; interesting angles; clear subjects in focus; a sense of narrative that tells a story; backgrounds that adds to, rather than detract from, the subject of the photo)

4). 250 word artist statement in the same blog post as the final 12 edited photos

 Use the Rule of Thirds to help with the overall composition.

Students must post their results to their your blogs to get credit and a grade for this assignment. 

My Rochester: Street Photography

James Maher

Josef Koudelka

"My Rochester" Photo Esssay - Street Photography

Project Requirements:

12 quality, edited (if necessary) photographs united by the theme “My Rochester”.

1.) Photos are black & white

2.) Photos fit all criteria of a good photograph discussed up this point (proper lighting; interesting angle; clear subject that is in focus; tells a story; background adds to, rather than detract from, the subject of the image)

3.) 250 word artist statement in the same blog post as the final 12 edited photos. 

For all your major Fall/Winter photography assignments, you will be creating a photographic essays representing Rochester through your eyes. For this assignment you will photograph the streets around you and your neighborhood. You should photograph your neighborhood, family, favorite after school hangout, friends, neighbors, events etc., all with the purpose of developing your own creative eye for photography, light and composition. 

Take as many photos as you can! – the more options you have to choose from, the better! At the end of each project, you will post 12 photographs that you feel best show your vision of Rochester. Oh, and...along with that...a 250 word artist statement to your blog. Yay! :)

10 Lessons on Street Photography

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide for Street Photography

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My Rochester: Landscapes

Skyline Photograph - Rochester Ny Skyline In Black And White by Tim Buisman

Start this project by creating a new blog post with the following:

Landscapes and/or cityscapes of Rochester for your first,“My Rochester” photo essay entitled: Landscapes. 

• 12 quality, edited (if necessary) Landscape photographs united by the theme “My Rochester”
• Photos must be in black & white
• Photos must fit all criteria of a good photograph discussed up this point (proper lighting; interesting angle; clear subject that is in focus; tells a story; background adds to, rather than detract from, the subject of the image)
• Photos should clearly label the vantage point used. (ie. worms eye, birds eye ect)
• 250 word artist statement in the same blog post as the final 12 edited photos

Here are some examples of powerful photo essays:

Halloween in Brooklyn

A Tale of Two Flint, Michigans: The Most Violent City in America

A Day in the Life of a Sengalese School Girl

A Day in the Life of a Fashion Week Model; Landscapes

Will Smith's Motivational Speech

"Self Discipline is Self Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft_DXwgUXB0

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Artist Bio: Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri Cartier Bresson

IN PICTURES: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bresson's black-and-white world

"It's in living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the outside world," Cartier-Bresson wrote in his groundbreaking work published in English as "The Decisive Moment" (1952). Photography was his means to launch internal and external voyages of discovery, like some Marco Polo of the mind. The book's French title, "Images à la Sauvette," implies pictures taken on the sly, slices of life and light that illuminate hidden realms."

As a class students watched and took notes on a documentary about the Iconic American photographer, Henri Cartier Bresson. This is the precursor to a series of projects related to Ansel Adams photography.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment[1]. His work has influenced many photographers[2] and he has been said to be the father of photojournalism[3][4] as well as the founder of modern photography[5]. - wikipedia

How to Improve your Mobile Phone Photography

In this Video, Pixel Viilage is giving you 6 tips which anyone can practice and improve ones photography with mobile phones. This will help all of your current and future projects.

Link to Varun's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuN7... 

Pixel Viilage Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pixelviilage/ 

Pixel Viilage instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pixelviilage/

Daily Photo #12

Toby Harriman 

Toby Harriman is an aerial, fine art, travel and landscape photographer. He also works as a timelapser and content creator. Toby Harriman tries through his photographs to discover more about the surrounding world and document his adventures. His photos are really stunning even those black and white ones are also amazing and this is the reason behind making Toby Harriman’s work spread across the internet among all of those who like this kind of photographs especially his cityscape photographs.

Toby Harriman

Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise. This particular photo is meant to be inspiration for the, "My Rochester" photo essay project which includes cityscapes as one related assignment.

Daily Photo #11

John Paul Filo - 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Photography

John Filo's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was fatally shot by the Ohio National Guard

The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. There were 28 soldiers who admitted to firing on top of the hill, 25 of these soldiers fired 55 rounds into the air and into the ground, two of the soldiers fired .45cal pistol shots, three into the crowd, and three into the air, one soldier fired birdshot into the air (James Russell was also hit with a shotgun's birdshot, some believe that some of the shot may have ricocheted off a tree and hit him).[6] The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[7][8]
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance.[9][10]
There was a significant national response to the shootings: Hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[11] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[12]

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Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

"My Rochester" Fall/Winter Photo Essays & Portfolio

For all your major Fall/Winter photography assignments/projects, you will be creating a series of  photographic essay projects representing Rochester through your eyes. Over the course of several assignments you will photograph landscape photos, street photos, portrait photos and even journalistic photos to culminate in the creation of a Portfolio and Essay of your photographic work. You should photograph your neighborhood, family, sports team, favorite after school hangout, friends, neighbors, events etc., all with the purpose of developing your own creative eye for photography, light and composition. Take as many photos as you can! – the more options you have to choose from, the better! At the end of each project, you will post 10-12 photographs that you feel best show your vision of Rochester. Oh, and...along with that...a 250 word artist statement to your blog. Yay! :)

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Introduce the new photojournalism Photo Essay project:  "My Rochester"

You will: Create a new Project Proposal blog post with the following:

A few sentences describing potential ideas and subject matter that you may want to photograph for landscape photos, street photos, portrait photos and even journalistic photos of Rochester for the My Rochester Photo Essay Series, as well as how and what you plan to photograph for these projects. You may post a few google photos of Rochester for your project proposal posts if needed.


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Post a few sentences analyzing my current strengths and weakness regarding photography, and how I will use these to my advantage in my photo essay.

My Rochester: Landscapes

Project Requirements:

• 10-12 quality, edited (if necessary) Landscape photographs united by the theme “My Rochester”
• Photos must be in black & white
• Photos must fit all criteria of a good photograph discussed up this point (proper lighting; interesting angle; clear subject that is in focus; tells a story; background adds to, rather than detract from, the subject of the image)
• Photos should clearly label the vantage point used. (ie. worms eye, birds eye ect)
• 250 word artist statement in the same blog post as the final 10-12 edited photos

Any photos you took for previous assignments this year that you think may work well as part of your “My Rochester” photo essays. (You should plan to take new photos for the majority of your photo essay, but for now, it is ok to post 2-4 ones you may potentially use.)

Here are some examples of powerful photo essays:

• Halloween in Brooklyn
• A Tale of Two Flint, Michigans: The Most Violent City in America
• A Day in the Life of a Sengalese School Girl
• A Day in the Life of a Fashion Week Model

The Speech that Inspired the Project

Shortly after taking office in 2014, Mayor Lovely Warren referred to Rochester as “a tale of two cities.” Here is a brief excerpt from that speech (you can read the speech in its entirety here):

“In his State of the State address just a few short weeks ago, Governor Cuomo candidly and accurately described Upstate New York as being in a “cycle of decline” — and the evidence of this is clear to see in Rochester.  The Rochester of today is far different from the Rochester of just a generation ago. Rochester is a tale of two cities.  One city is vibrant, hopeful, wealthy, and highly livable. The other suffers from escalating poverty, dysfunction, unemployment that is higher today than it was during the Great Depression — and a deficient educational system.  This divide has both immediate human consequences and short and long-term economic consequences.

The Mayor’s challenge — our community’s shared challenge — is to bridge these divides so that all people feel there is hope for them and their children; and we all feel that we have an equal stake in the future.  A recent report by the Rochester Area Community Foundation outlined the harsh reality we face; and the findings are a call to action that cannot go unanswered.

Rochester is the:

• Fifth poorest city in the country among the top 75 largest metropolitan areas;
• Second poorest among comparably sized cities in those metro areas;
• Ranked third for highest concentration of extremely poor neighborhoods among cities in the top 100 metro areas;
• Poorest urban school district in the State.”

Artist Bio: Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

As a class students watched and took notes on a documentary about the Iconic American photographer, Ansel Adams. This is the precursor to a series of projects related to Ansel Adams photography.

Ansel Adams, Photographer, Conservationist

“At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been a visionary in his efforts to preserve this country’s wild and scenic areas, both on film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature’s monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.”

President James E. Carter

Presenting Ansel Adams with the

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Daily Photo #10

AP Photo / copyright-Alfred Eisenstaedt / Life Magazine

"The Kiss", On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took one of the most iconic pictures of all time of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. 

A sailor sweeps a nurse off her feet with a kiss in New York’s Times Square in this famous photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt on the day Japan surrendered to end World War II.

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George Mendonsa, now over 92 years old, still remembers kissing that nurse in Times Square. Born and raised on the water, Mendonsa grew up in a family of commercial fisherman in Newport, R.I., and decided to join the Navy once the Army started drafting men for the war...

Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

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Daily Photo #9

Josef Koudelka

Photographer, Josef Koudelka's early work significantly shaped his later photography, and its emphasis on social and cultural rituals as well as death. He soon moved on to a more personal, in depth photographic study of the Gypsies of Slovakia, and later Romania. This work was exhibited in Prague in 1967. Throughout his career, Koudelka has been praised for his ability to capture the presence of the human spirit amidst dark landscapes. Desolation, waste, departure, despair and alienation are common themes in his work. His characters sometimes seem to come out of fairytales. Still, some see hope within his work — the endurance of human endeavor, in spite of its fragility. His later work focuses on the landscape removed of human subjects. He is considered by some a master of street photography.

Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

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Assignment #5: Color

Essential question: How can I use the art elements of Color: Monochrome Color, Contrasting Color, Color Intensity, Neutral Colors to create interesting photographs with good contrast and composition?

You will take photos, trying to capture: Monochrome Color, Contrasting Color, Color Intensity, Neutral Colors in interesting ways. You must post your best photos to your blog AND write a reflection following the instructions on this blog post and you must have 1-3 photo examples in color of each category Monochrome Color, Contrasting Color, Color Intensity, Neutral Colors posted to your blog in order to receive full credit! Take your own pictures. NO GOOGLE PHOTOS!!!

Look for photo opportunities that already exist, but at the same time, be ready to stage photos if you get an idea that fits the assignment.

I will:

Take interesting photos of Monochrome Color, Contrasting Color, Color Intensity, Neutral Colors in color.

Post all of my photos to my Blog with the write-ups. 

I will: 

Create a new blog post with the following:

1-3 examples of each category with each photo labeled with the appropriate category: Monochrome Color, Contrasting Color, Color Intensity, Neutral Colors

I will:

Write at least a paragraph reflection on:

1) What are some ways your photography skills have improved over the past few assignments?

2) What are some things you struggle with in photo?

3)Which of the elements you photographed Monochrome Color, Contrasting Color, Color Intensity, Neutral Colors was the easiest for you? Why?

4) Which of the elements you photographed Monochrome Color, Contrasting Color, Color Intensity, Neutral Colors was the most difficult for you? Why?

5) Tell me what you feel you've learned from this particular project.

6) Is there a photograph or photographer we have looked at that inspires you?

Examples:

1) Monochrome Color

Photo that uses only one dominant color

  

• 2) Contrasting Colors

  

  Photo that uses opposite colors in contrast: red/green, blue/orange, purple/yellow etc

  
  

• 3) Colors of Similar Intensity
  
  
  

  

  Colors that appear as bright and vibrant as each other

• 4) One Color Against a Neutral Background

Neutral colored background with colored subject in foreground

Neutral colored background with colored subject in foreground

Daily Photo #8

Sam Shere : Hindenburg Disaster

In 1937, Sam Shere photographed the Hindenburg disaster while on assignment in New Jersey. The crash killed 36 people and ended the era of passenger-carrying airships, which were once hailed as the future of flight. "I had two shots in my (camera) but I didn't even have time to get it up to my eye," Shere later said, "I literally shot from the hip -- it was over so fast there was nothing else to do."

Students do a daily "Bell Work" activity analyzing a significant or historical photo. They must make written comments about the composition, contrast, focus, balance, framing and statements each photo is making. This is our daily warm up exercise.

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Assignment #4: Line, Space, Shape & Shadow

Assignment #4: Line, Space, Shape & Shadow

Michaël Luitaud

Essential question: How can I use the art elements of: Line, Space, Shape & Shadow to create interesting photographs with good contrast and composition?

You will take photos, trying to capture: Line, Space, Shape & Shadow in interesting ways. You must post your best photos to your blog AND write a reflection following the instructions on this blog post and you must have at least 3 photo examples in black and white of each category (Line, Space, Shape & Shadow) posted to your blog in order to receive full credit! 

NO GOOGLE PHOTOS!!!

Look for photo opportunities that already exist, but at the same time, be ready to stage photos if you get an idea that fits the assignment.

I will:

Take interesting photos of line, shape, and space in black and white.

Post all of my photos to my Blog with the write-ups. 

I will: 

Create a new blog post with the following:

3 examples of each category with each photo labeled with the appropriate category (line, shape, space, shadow)

I will:

Write at least a paragraph reflection on:

1) What are some ways your photography skills have improved over the past few assignments?

2) What are some things you struggle with in photo?

3)Which of the elements you photographed (line, shape, space, shadow) was the easiest for you? Why?

4) Which of the elements you photographed (line, shape, space, shadow) was the most difficult for you? Why?

5) Tell me what you feel you've learned from this particular project.

6) Is there a photograph or photographer we have looked at that inspires you?

Examples:

Line

   

Shape

  

Space

 

 

Shadow

Michaël Luitaud

Michaël Luitaud