Photography
2nd Semester

This is the Course Outline for  Photography at MHS for the 2nd Semester
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
Wednesday- Introduction to Portraits
Portraits-Unit

Article due each Friday- Photography Articles

Week 3-
Monday- finish up Portrait Photo Shoot
Tuesday- Digital Contact Sheet Due/Traditional Contact Sheet Due
Wednesday- Work on Trad Prints in darkroom (you will need 4 5x7" prints from 5 shoots)
or work on Digital work (you will need 5 5x7" prints from 5 shoots)
Digital Work- must include

Have before and after pictures of all 5.

 
Thursday- Darkroom or Computer Work
Friday - Darkroom or Computer Work

Article due each Friday- Photography Articles

Week 4-6
Article due each Friday- Photography Articles

Series of Photos with a Common Element
     ( Photo within a photo)


Project:  A "series" of six prints will be due which have a common theme.
Consider shooting each of these types and develop an idea for each of the different areas below.
Include these in your notebook, along with your choice for your shoot.
Can shoot during class, contact sheet due Tuesday, April 2nd!

Week 7-9

Close-up Photography Project-
                         What is Close up (MACRO) photography?
                         In notebook 
                         1.write a good definition of Close-up photography
                         2.Using the the links below, find 5 different close-up photographers
                         Explain who they are and include some of their photos
links:

   
                         3. List 6 ( 4 exp.s each) ideas for your close-up photography
                          Bring in objects and shoot project. 

Week 10
 Art to Photo Project

Week 11
 Project- Seven Deadly Sins
#1 What are the "Seven Deadly Sins", list and write a definition for each.
Some Helpful Links-
Seven Deadly Sins Wkipedia Results
Images from a Contest Photo Contest on the 7 Deadly Sins
ePhotozine Contest Another contest with 7 as it's theme
#2 By Wednesday 2-26 have the definitions and a plan of how you would illustrate each of the 7 Deadly Sins.
#3 Shoot Photos, by Tuesday 3-1 have a good "Contact Sheet" of all your photos
#4 Using the artist

Week 12


 

Week 13
 "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!)

Week 14
 

 Week 16
 

Week 17

 

Week 18   
 

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

Intro to next project- Sephia Toning, Dyeing, Airbrushing and Hand Coloring