Photography

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This is the Course Outline for  Photography at MHS.
Throughout the next semester you will be introduced to a variety of new  photographers, techniques and ideas.
Please refer back to this page throughout the semester for added links, project explanations, due dates, technique workshops, and more.
Click on Project Titles to go to explanations of each assignment.
Notebook assignments ( "Questions of the day?") are given each week and are to be done in class.
Use the attached links to gather information to fully explain your answers in your notebooks.

Week 1-3
I. Introduction to Photography
Overview of the Course
View collection of photos- http://www.life.com/Life/lifephotos.html
Discussion "What makes a good photo ?"

Introduction to Cameras
Camera Workshop- demonstration of cameras
Building Oatmeal Box Camera
Class work: Introduction on how cameras work, Building Oatmeal Box Camera
Before building your camera check out these websites:
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~mukluk/pin.html
http://www.kodak.com/cluster/global/
These will help you understand how one is built
 plus see some images created by an oatmeal box camera

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Intro to darkroom, chemicals, smells, lights, etc. 
Shoot first oatmeal box photos.

Troubleshooting:

1. If your film or paper comes out black (all exposed), you might have a light leak. Check the box for holes and patch, tape and paint any suspicious places. Make sure the lid fits well and overlaps the sides of the box at least an inch or so. If you are using fairly fast film or paper, it might need much shorter exposures. Try cutting the exposure time in half, or less
*2. If your film or paper comes out blank (clear or white), the exposure probably wasn't long enough. Try longer exposures. It might turn out you need twice as long or ten times as long, or more. Also, check to make sure light can go through the pinhole and that nothing is blocking the pinhole when you make exposures. Make sure you put the paper or film in the pinhole camera with the emulsion facing the pinhole. If you put paper in backwards, with the emulsion facing the back of the box instead of facing the pinhole, it would need a much longer exposure.

Wednesday -Class work: Check out this website-
http://www.photoresource.com/workarchive499.html
in your notebook explain what a photogram is and how one is created.

Friday
Continue Shooting Oatmeal Box Camera Pictures

Tuesday -Printing a positive from negative
Thursday - Matting photos

Your matted positive/negative oatmeal box photo due Friday 8-31-07

Thursday  -Bring Your Camera - we will load film and discuss "Scavenger Hunt " Project
Get your film shot over the Labor Day Weekend!

Week 3-

Developing Film
Printing the Contact Sheet
Printing the Positive
Discussion and Use of Vignettes
Cropping

Print Scavenger Hunt Contact Sheet and begin to print your 5 photos
You will print 5 photos from this roll, you will matt 2 but turn in all 5.
All photos should be trimmed- matt your best two!

Intro to Dodging & Burning and Vignettes
You will print 5 photos from your scavenger hunt-
1= Vignette (example 1, )
1= Example of dodging and burning (example 1,example 2)
3= Great photos
2 will be matted, but all 5 will be turned in.

Week 4
M-F  Print Scavenger Hunt Contact Sheet and begin to print your 5 photos
You will print 5 photos from this roll, you will matt 2 but turn in all 5.
All photos should be trimmed- matt your best two!
2 will be matted, but all 5 will be turned in. Due Friday at the end of class

Article for this week- click here

Next Project-

Good / Bad Photos
Work on definitions and plan for next project ( Good/Bad photos),
plus work on Photographers report/PowerPoint

Good Bad /Photos
Our next project forces you to shoot examples of both good and bad photos.
Check out this web site  -
http://asp.photo.free.fr/Composition/photoProgramCompClass01.shtml

 Yes start at the beginning and go through each slide, read & write!
1. In your notebook compose a definition (of your own) for "Rule of 3rds", "Avoiding Mergers", "Framing", “Lines",
"Balance" and "Simplicity"
2. Create a plan how you could shoot a good and bad example of each topic.
Ex. "For avoiding mergers good I want to shoot.............be specific!
Your plan is due by the end of class Thurs. and you will begin to
shoot in class .

Week 5
Monday- Critique
Tuesday- Improving Photos in the darkroom
Dodging/Burning- http://www.dcmag.co.uk/Darkroom_techniques_dodging_and_burning.YYRJ7Fdo39cnPg.html

 Good / Bad Photos
Work on definitions and plan for next project ( Good/Bad photos),
plus work on Photographers report/PowerPoint

Good Bad /Photos
Our next project forces you to shoot examples of both good and bad photos.
Check out this web site  -
http://asp.photo.free.fr/Composition/photoProgramCompClass01.shtml

 Yes start at the beginning and go through each slide, read & write!
1. In your notebook compose a definition (of your own) for "Rule of 3rds", "Avoiding Mergers", "Framing", “Lines",
"Balance" and "Simplicity"
2. Create a plan how you could shoot a good and bad example of each topic.
Ex. "For avoiding mergers good I want to shoot.............be specific!
Your plan is due by the end of class Thurs. and you will begin to
shoot in class .

Week 6

Homework: Calotypes, Wet plates & Early Portraits
Read thru handouts and create a outline of "Calotypes, Wet plates and Early Portraits"-
due (start of class) Tuesday 9-9-03

 Begin printing out your good and bad examples of each rule. These will be matted together
along with a title which explains the rule.
Matted Photos due EOC- Wednesday 10-4-06 (6 sets/rules)

Week 7
Tues-Wed 
Working/Finishing gluing up your good and bad photos on a matt board with "Creative " title
Lines, Simplicity, Avoiding Mergers, Balance, Framing and Rule of 3rds Due end of class- Wednesday 10-3-07

Thursday- Work on the "Selection Packet" it is in your drawer. Your starting file 04start.psd is in the common folder.
Save your finished work back to your I folder -

Friday- Article due by Friday (SOC) What Camera Should I Buy?
Shoot a digital photo of; a person with their hands above them, a vehicle, a screaming person
or people and the high school parking lot. Utilizing the techniques you learned in the workshop  create a surreal (realistic but unbelievable)
image of your person (the one you took) [enlarged] holding up a car, with a screaming person hanging out of it.
This whole image should be placed in front of the parking lot.

Week 8
Monday/Tuesday-
Continue group photo from Friday. Develop your own photo idea, incorporating photo manipulation.
Photo should utilize proportion, size, size relationships, etc. See examples

 

Week 10
Monday- Retouching/repairing workshop
Tuesday- "My Face on the Cover of the Rolling Stone" project
scan magazine cover, shoot faces.
Wednesday- working on your magazine cover
Thursday- Printing, matting and putting your Magazine cover on the web.
Intro to next project- Sephia Toning, Dyeing, Airbrushing and Hand Coloring
Old Fashioned and Photos that would work well for added color.
 

Due Thursday   Question of the Week - "Why do people have red eyes in flash photographs?"
Use the link above to find information, yes you can use other links also. Once research is complete,
In your own words answer the question of the week. Due at the start of class Thursday 10-25
 

Week 11
Monday- Creating a Spooky House 
Tuesday-  Matt and put on your web page
Wednesday- Develop your traditional film for "Old Fashioned/ Added Color"
Thursday- Print Contact Sheet and begin making prints


Article this week- We are creating a "Digital Times" Newspaper. Each of my photography students (adv and photo1) have specific areas that they must write a short article about. You will save these articles in your Digital Photo Folder and I will go in and submit your article to our newspaper template. Please write these articles in your own words and include all source references. I will print out an edited version of our newspaper for all of you. Your article should be in your folder by the start of class
on Friday 11-2.
Your article area is on the board in the artroom.

Week 12  (Nov. 5th - 9th)
 Monday- 1/2 of you will go out and shoot some digital images that would work for our Old Fashioned and Hand Colored, the 1/2 will be in the darkroom printing 4 (5x7") photographs- #1 Sepia Toned, #2 Dyed, #3 Hand Colored (WC or Marker), #4 Airbrushed, #5 Combo 1 (combination of two techiniques) and #6 Combo 2
Tuesday- Flip Flop
Wednesday- Demo on HC on the computer/ Demo on Traditional Techniques
Hand Coloring Photos With The Computers
Thursday- Mr. V gone but, Work on your choice, Traditional or Digital.
 Friday-  Due Today- Haunted/Spooky House due- Matted
 Due - At least 2 photos completed from this unit (OF &HC), not matted. (Digital- paper print, Traditional- uncut 5x7" print)

Photos you will complete- Digital; #1 Sepia Toned Creatively,  #2 Other Color Toned Creatively, # 3 Hand Color on B & W
# 4 Combo on tone and Hand Color
Traditional- 4 (5x7") photographs- #1 Sepia Toned, #2 Dyed, #3 Hand Colored (WC or Marker), and #4 Airbrushed

Article this week- Since the majority of students didn't turn in their section of the "Digital Times" last week, I am making this the article for this week. Yes, you got a zero for last week and no, you do not want to get an F for this week. If you did it last week, you do not have an assignment this week!
Assignment Again- We are creating a "Digital Times" Newspaper. Each of my photography students (adv and photo1) have specific areas that they must write a short article about. You will save these articles in your Digital Photo Folder and I will go in and submit your article to our newspaper template. Please write these articles in your own words and include all source references. I will print out an edited version of our newspaper for all of you. Your article should be in your Digital Photography Computer folder (I do not want a printed page, but a digital file)by the start of class
on Friday 11-9 for the students that didn't do it the first time.
You can e-mail them to me at verscjim@usd408.com

#1 Creatively Sepia Toned (Creative means parts left color or b &w)
#2 Creatively Dyed one Color
#3 Creatively Hand Colored


 

Week 13 (Nov 12-16)
Continue on Old Fashioned and Hand Colored
You must complete-  Digital; #1 Sepia Toned Creatively,  #2 Other Color Toned Creatively, # 3 Hand Color on B & W
# 4 Airbrush/gradient
Traditional- 4 (5x7") photographs- #1 Sepia Toned, #2 Dyed, #3 Hand Colored (WC or Marker), and #4 Airbrushed
you and I will decide on your best traditional print and your best digital print which will be matted.
Entire Project 500 pt.s- 100 for each matted and 50 for others.
Due- 11-20-07 End of Class

Article due this week on Friday- Photo Analysis Part 1

Week 14 (Nov 19-20)
You must complete-  Digital; #1 Sepia Toned Creatively,  #2 Other Color Toned Creatively, # 3 Hand Color on B & W
# 4 Airbrush/gradient
Traditional- 4 (5x7") photographs- #1 Sepia Toned, #2 Dyed, #3 Hand Colored (WC or Marker), and #4 Airbrushed
you and I will decide on your best traditional print and your best digital print which will be matted.
Entire Project 500 pt.s- 100 for each matted and 50 for others.
Due- 11-20-07 End of Class

Article Due this week on Tuesday- Photo Analysis Part 2

 Week 16 (Dec 3-7)
Using  traditional and digital cameras shoot 4 different still-life's, that you setup in the photo studio.

Still-lifes should include the following ideas;
#1 old fashioned things, old tools, photos, toys,?
 #2 deals with food  ( you come up with the food and create a still-life arrangement that will showcase it!)
#3 tells a story ( ex. a romantic dinner gone sour, where you see the roses, champagne glasses, candles and a dear John letter.)
#4 includes a newspaper or magazine, emphasizing the date or what was happening.

Week 17 (Dec. 10-14)

Article due this week on Friday- Best Photos of MSN.com

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Week 18    (Dec. 17-20)
Final Project- "Shoot the Ultimate Christmas Still-life"
Project- Design, create the Ultimate Christmas Still-life. You will shoot these Digitally.
Utilizing the techniques from your last project, you will enhance the print. You will turn in  one matted Digital 8x10" enhanced print.
(Enhanced= technique with section of original photo visible)
Due- Dec. 20st   (EOD)

7. "Night Photography"- During class this week, research (using the internet) "night photography". Find as much as you can about this "subject"- times to use, film to use, shutter speeds, painting with light, use of flash at night, how to shoot lightening, etc. 
Complete this first, because during this week you will need to go out and shoot at least 1 roll and possibly 2 rolls of ideas dealing with "night photography". I want you to be developing film on , this gives you Tuesday-Monday nights to shoot.
You will be using one of my Pentax cameras, tripod and cable releases (take care of my equipment)! 
Before you begin, please write down at least 6 ideas (yes you can try different ideas once you start, but you need to have a plan!)
Use your imagination, my expectations are very high for your projects.

Home work/Class work (if done with everything else): from this list below,
choose one of the famous photographers,
research them finding information on their life, contributions to photography
and interesting trivial knowledge.
Create a PowerPoint project that highlights some of their photographs, you will
also write/read a report (yes typed, and turned in) that will accompany your Power Point show. Your slides should correspond to your oral report.
At least 10 slides, focus on their photography!
Choose a photographers and gather information from the internet, books or magazines-

Photographers:

Ansel Adams 

Cindy Sherman

Diane Arbus 

Herb Ritts

Dorothea Lange

Eadweard Muybridge

Annie Leibovitz

Edward Weston

Lucus Samaras

Walter Iooss 

Alfred Stieglitz

Lewis W. Hine 

Louis Daguerre

Gordon Parks 

Images of War & Early Travel Photography
Mathew Brady vs. Robert Fenton
 

Hockney-style  Photographs Project
(click here)

Old Fashioned Shoot & Cool Objects
Introduction to toning and dying

Introduction to Adjustable 35mm SLR Cameras
Still-life photography shoot
Introduction to hand coloring

Individual Major Project

Semester Test- Written & Darkroom

1st Shoot