Photography Assignments
You will have 3 photography assignments. You should choose to do them one per period. Therefore you are limited to one period of shooting for each assignment. You are allowed to reshoot and edit using Photoshop. Make sure you upload your images before the end of class after each shoot.
For each assignment you should take a minimum of 30 pictures (all 30 pictures should be handed in but distinguish your top choices).
Assignment 1
A day in the life of an SJA student. Take 40 minutes to take pictures that represent the day of an SJA student. You are limited to open spaces (room 221, hallway, matrix, cafe, outside the school but not on the road or in the parking lot).
You need to come back with 30 pictures that are in focus, have a clear subject and that tell the story.
Assignment 2
Hands and Feet
All images for this assignment should be of hands and feet. Go for different angles and try to make your pictures tell a story.
Assignment 3
Photography Scavenger Hunt
For each assignment you should take a minimum of 30 pictures (all 30 pictures should be handed in but distinguish your top choices).
Assignment 1
A day in the life of an SJA student. Take 40 minutes to take pictures that represent the day of an SJA student. You are limited to open spaces (room 221, hallway, matrix, cafe, outside the school but not on the road or in the parking lot).
You need to come back with 30 pictures that are in focus, have a clear subject and that tell the story.
Assignment 2
Hands and Feet
All images for this assignment should be of hands and feet. Go for different angles and try to make your pictures tell a story.
Assignment 3
Photography Scavenger Hunt
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1. Water.
2. Something green. 3. A reflection. 4. Your shoes. 5. Something small. |
6. Something large.
7. Something awesome. 8. Something you heard. 9. Something in your pocket. 10. Someone. |
11. A number.
12. A pattern. 13. Something soft. 14. A smile. 15. Hidden camera mirror photo. |
16. Rule of thirds.
17. Worm's eye view. 18. Bird's eye view. 19. Eye's of a child. 20. Frame within a frame. |
Think About:
Photography is REALLY about composition and light.
Great photography is about interesting light and strong composition. Everything else is just a cherry on top.
It is NOT “cheating” to use Photoshop
Photography is not news, photography is art. Just like a painter can put whatever she wants in a painting, you can do whatever you want to your photos in Photoshop as long as you don’t lie and tell people it is a representation of the actual scene.
Shoot many DIFFERENT shots, but don’t waste time getting 10 copies of the same scene
Especially when shooting non moving objects keep yourself moving and change your camera settings. (If shooting people be aware that people move and you might need multiple shots to avoid someone blinking or making a sour face). Make every picture different from the previous one, even if the difference is only slight. If you see a scene, shoot it once, analyze the picture, change your angle or the exposure slightly, and then shoot again. Rather than just ripping the shutter to get multiple shots of the scene, change each shot just slightly as you work the scene. This makes you slow down and not get stuck with the first shot of the scene, but rather keep changing until you find the exact right angle.
Some more rules of photography to contemplate:
1. Perspective
- eye level
- bird's eye view (high angle)
- worm's eye view (low angle)
- move your feet
2. Composition
- Rule of Thirds
- Fill the frame
- Depth of Field
- Balance, Symmetry, Pattern, Texture, Lines
- portrait vs landscape
- What is the focal point of your image?
Remember - What you see in the view finder will be in your picture and obviously what you don't see won't be.
Move your self.
Look outside the box.
Be creative.
Have fun.
Check out these links to learn more about photography:
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Home_Main/Tips_Projects_Exchange/Learn/Photo_Tips_Techniques/Advanced_Techniques/Composing_your_Pictures.htm
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/top10tips/
Photography is REALLY about composition and light.
Great photography is about interesting light and strong composition. Everything else is just a cherry on top.
It is NOT “cheating” to use Photoshop
Photography is not news, photography is art. Just like a painter can put whatever she wants in a painting, you can do whatever you want to your photos in Photoshop as long as you don’t lie and tell people it is a representation of the actual scene.
Shoot many DIFFERENT shots, but don’t waste time getting 10 copies of the same scene
Especially when shooting non moving objects keep yourself moving and change your camera settings. (If shooting people be aware that people move and you might need multiple shots to avoid someone blinking or making a sour face). Make every picture different from the previous one, even if the difference is only slight. If you see a scene, shoot it once, analyze the picture, change your angle or the exposure slightly, and then shoot again. Rather than just ripping the shutter to get multiple shots of the scene, change each shot just slightly as you work the scene. This makes you slow down and not get stuck with the first shot of the scene, but rather keep changing until you find the exact right angle.
Some more rules of photography to contemplate:
1. Perspective
- eye level
- bird's eye view (high angle)
- worm's eye view (low angle)
- move your feet
2. Composition
- Rule of Thirds
- Fill the frame
- Depth of Field
- Balance, Symmetry, Pattern, Texture, Lines
- portrait vs landscape
- What is the focal point of your image?
Remember - What you see in the view finder will be in your picture and obviously what you don't see won't be.
Move your self.
Look outside the box.
Be creative.
Have fun.
Check out these links to learn more about photography:
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Home_Main/Tips_Projects_Exchange/Learn/Photo_Tips_Techniques/Advanced_Techniques/Composing_your_Pictures.htm
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/top10tips/