Potential Exam Exemptions!!

I have compiled a list of students who have the potential to exempt my final exam. This list takes into account only your grade and absences to this date. If you do poorly on the final portfolio project, or are absent again before the exam date, you may jeopardize your exemption. I will post an updated list just prior to the exam. PLEASE CHECK BACK TO BE SURE YOU ARE EXEMPT!!!

1st period:
13,14,17,114,115,11,15

2nd period:
23,24,26,27,213,220,221

4th period:
41,44,46,49,410,411,412,413,416,422,414,420,421,419

STUDY FOR THE EXAM

The long weekend we have coming up would be a great time to prepare for the final exam! Here are some things you should go over:
Know about the photographer you presented to the class.
Know about at least one other photographer we studied (from reading, films, or other presentations).
Know the basics about 35mm photography.
Know how to get the proper exposure.
Know about action photography and how to get blurred action and stopped action shots.
Know about composition. Read over your research paper on the topic!
Read over your career research paper.
Know when and when NOT to use the 'automatic' setting on your camera.
Read over our early worksheets and hand-outs.
Know PhotoShop! Know where to find all the tools. Go over the PhotoShop handouts if you are unsure.
Understand terms like Bits, Bytes, Pixels, dpi, ppi, Histogram, Hue/Saturation, Noise, Resolution, RGB, JPEG, Exposure, F-Stop, Aperture, Point-of-View, Composition, Shutter Speed, Exposure, Dodge, Burn, Redeye, etc.

Final Portfolio Project

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY I
FINAL PORTFOLIO PROJECT

Due Date: May 31, 2007
Format: PowerPoint
Criteria: Students will produce a 22 slide PowerPoint presentation highlighting their best work in Digital Photography I. It will include a title slide and a final slide containing an honor statement as well as the following photos:
1)Architecture or Architectural Detail—man-made structure should be the primary focus
2)Landscape, Student’s choice (“calendar shot”—the goal is beauty)
3)Black and White of Student’s choice
4)Macro photo
5)Nature shot
6)Candid photo of school life
7)Posed Portrait
8)Student’s best collage
9)A Montage
10)Photo which shows action/movement
11)Backlit close-up photo
12)Backlit Landscape
13)Family/Relationship-themed collage
14)Unique photo showing creativity—student’s choice of subject matter
15)Still Life photo of food/beverage
16)Student’s choice of photo showing use of a creative filter
17)A Vignette
18)Metaphor Self-Portrait Still Life (not collage!)
19)Field Trip photo (Elizabethan Gardens or Butterfly Garden)
20)Created artwork showing student’s best use of PhotoShop tools on a photo/photos

Title and end slide should show similar design features. End slide will be the honor code stipulating that you took all photos personally and during this semester. Use transitions and animation on your slides, but do not automate your slide show.

Note: A PhotoShop canvas size of 10 inches wide by 7.5 inches high is the equivalent of a PowerPoint slide. Each photo will be graded individually on effort, creativity, imagination, and technical skills. Do not submit photos with serious photographic errors such as red eyes, out-of-focus, underexposed or overexposed, etc. Put slides in order! You may add titles if you wish, but it is not required. If you add titles, make sure they are an enhancement, not distraction! You will give an oral presentation with your slide show. Be prepared to elaborate on how you created each piece, and answer questions. This project will make up a large percentage of your final grade. Do a good job!

Hockney Collage

You are responsible for getting 20-50 photographs from different perspectives to use in your Hockney-style collage. You'll make a contact sheet and begin on this project Monday, May 21st. We will print these out and make our collages on construction paper or poster board. If you want to use a specific color, you may bring your own. DO NOT cut pictures up and paste them back together like a puzzle. If you try this, you will get a zero. You must have 20-50 INDIVIDUAL photos to use----and these must be NEW photos. To get an idea of how your collage might look, check out this web site:
www.bighugelabs.com/Flickr/
click on "Hockneyizer" and put in one of your own photos. See what happens!
Final collage will be due Friday, May 25th.

Photography Contest---Money prizes!!!

Strawberry Photo Contest - The North Carolina Strawberry Association is sponsoring a strawberry Photo Contest to celebrate fresh, locally grown strawberries. Photos, which may be digital or film, should feature strawberries or strawberry plants in some way, such as close-ups of strawberry flowers or plants, strawberry fields, strawberry harvest activities, adults or children handling or eating strawberries, strawberry desserts or other dishes, or strawberries used decoratively. The following prizes will be awarded: strawberries with people: first place - $100, second place - $75, and third place - $50; strawberries without people: first place - $100, second place - $75, and third place - $50; and children¹s category (under age 12) - $50. The deadline for entries submission is July 15. Entries are to be sent to the NC Strawberry Association, 1138 Rock Rest Road, Pittsboro, NC 27312. For complete information, including an entry form, please go online to www.ncstrawberry.com.

David Hockney Research

Our next project will involve creating a collage from actual photographs. Unlike much of the work in this class, this will not be created electronically, but on paper. In order to understand the concept behind this work, please read from the following web sites:
www.courses.washington.edu/hypertxt/cgi-bin/12.228.185.206/html/collage/edges.html
www.qnet.com/~bookout/pearblos.htm
www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/ArtObjectDetails?artobj=112574&handle=li
http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2001/Articles1001/DHockneyA.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/david_hockney.html
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/collage.html
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hockney/hockney_mother.jpg.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/david-hockney
www.npg.org.uk/live/NPGTeachersNotes_Hockney.pdf
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/high/cubismphoto.htm
You will write a one-page summary describing how Hockney used photographs in his art, specifically in collage form.

You will get the details of the next assignment soon. This research should help you understand the assignment.

INTERIMS AND NHI's

Interims have just gone out. Overall, I am very pleased with your grades and I trust your parents will be as well. However, there are a few of you who are behind. If you had NHI's (not handed in) on your interim, I will allow you to submit those projects to the late folder for a grade---reduced, of course, according to how late it is. Remember, at 60% of your grade, even one zero on a project can have a serious detrimental effect!

Next Project---Metaphor Self-Portrait

Metaphor Self-Portrait

Metaphor--1) A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world’s a stage” (Shakespeare). 2) One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler).
Still Life--Still life is the photography of small groups of objects, either found or put together for the purpose. It may simply be concerned with formal qualities (tones, textures, colours, shapes, form etc) or have a more metaphorical intent.

Check out these sites:
http://www.shutterpoint.com/Photos-BrowseCat.cfm?cat_id=7
http://www.shutterbug.net/refreshercourse/lens_tips/1205back/
http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/dynoGall2.asp?catID=17
Most of what you see here is considered ‘Still Life’ photography.

Read these instructions carefully. This photograph is about you. It is a portrait of you. The only thing different is that you are not in it. This picture is a still life, a metaphor that contains at least three things that represent who you are. Your friends should be able to look at it and recognize you in the picture. This picture should not contain any living things, only still objects. It should represent things you are passionate about.

Pay special attention to lighting and arrangement of the items. Change them up and see what works best. You will make a contact sheet with 12 different photos that represent YOU. You will turn in the best of the twelve as a color 5x7, manipulated in PhotoShop if you wish.

Contact Sheet is due May 9th. Final is due May 10th at the end of class.

Permission Slips!

Please bring in letters from your parents giving permission to go across the street to the Butterfly Garden for photographs. I would like to do this possibly Thursday and Friday of this week, and maybe one day next week as well. There's an art exhibit there on May 19th. We will be displaying our best Butterfly Garden photography. We'll still need to edit photos, print, and mount, so we need to get over there as soon as possible. Please bring in letters of permission right away!