9/14
-Quiz #1 on pages 18-25, 42-47, 60-71
-Quick critique of selected images from Assignment #2 images - projected
- “Rule of Thirds” explained
- Read and discuss pages 147-151 in book in class
- Shooting assignment #3 explained and given – Focus on composition
- Discussing critiques on photographers
For next week: (9/21)
- -BRING in camera + textbook
- -UPLOAD images to your Tumblr from Assignment #3
- -COMPLETE: questions on handout for Discussion Topic #1 – turn in to me
- -REVIEW: pages 147-151 – for quiz
Discussion Topic #1
Shooting Assignment #3
Focus on Composition
(due posted to your Tumblr before class on 09/20)
Use the Rule of Thirds and other compositional devices that we learned in class to fulfill this assignment. Use the information we talked about in class and what you have learned from reading over pages 147-151 in your book, and the back of this handout
· Shoot
images that fulfill these criteria and post SIX (6)
Image 1 -
Put the main subject off to one side or one
corner of the frame. Can you balance the image so that it does not
feel lopsided?
Image 2 -
Put the horizon line at the very top or very bottom of a photograph
Image 3 -
Have “nothing” in the center of the frame. Keep the views interest
directed towards the edges
Image 4 -
Make a portrait of someone without his or her head in the picture. Try to
have the image express something of the subject’s personality.
Image 5
* -
Photograph something in its entirety; a person, a shop-front, an animal, an
overstuffed chair – whatever gets your attention. Move in a little
closer. How will you use the frame to cut into the object? Do you
crop the object evenly all around? More on one side than the other?
Move in even closer. Closer.
* Image 5 will consist of two photos of the same
subject. One is in its entirety and the
other is a closer more interesting
shot of the same thing.
