When posting daily, remember- your post should be 3 sentences long and END with your FIRST INITIAL and LAST NAME- if you want credit!!!

Nicholas.Liebrecht@orecity.k12.or.us

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

RETURN OF THE BLOG!!!


YES! A new blog response!

Do a couple quick celebrity morphs at:

http://www.morphthing.com/morph


How well do you think this website works?

Were your 'morphs' convincing, or just funny?

What celebrity would you add to this library/list that is NOT HERE now???

If you were to morph yourself with a celebrity, who would you morph with???

We will be DOING THIS -(much more professionally, with PhotoShop)- in class tomorrow- which 2 celebrities will you use for YOUR computer Morphing project???

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HOW TO POST-
Please use Mozilla Firefox- not internet explorer

-click the little brownish link below that says the number of comments on this blog-
-type in your COMMENT in the pop-up window
-end your comment with your First Initial and LAST NAME
-select ANONYMOUS from the drop down COMMENT AS menu
-hit the POST COMMENT button

FINAL project idea


Telling me your final project concept by Friday Feb. 3rd is worth 10 points...

REMEMBER: this is a STORY told through 20 photos, assembled in a PowerPoint slideshow and PRESENTED to the class on FINALS day.

#1- what is your STORY

#2- How will it be VISUALLY linked? (the shots should look like a series of work)

FACE FILTER assignment


This is worth 10 points and DUE in your FILTERS PhotoBucket album by Friday Feb3rd.

You will apply 15 different filters to the same celebrity photo and LABEL EACH ONE with the specific filter you have used.

Post all 15 of these shots in your PhotoBucket FILTERS album.
Fill out an EVALUATION SHEET and turn it in by Friday.


Easy!

Monday, January 23, 2012

NOT A BAD IDEA....


There will be no NEW blog entries until NEXT week, but it would be a good idea for you to spend a few minutes scanning back over the BLOGS from the first half of the TRI to see if you missed any.

You will be given 30 points this 6 wks. and 30 points on the NEXT 6wks. grade for your blog/response completion.

Were you absent a day?

Did you just skip a day and think "I'll do it later" ?

Double check!

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Abstract Still Life


To me, the ABSTRACT still life photo is the most difficult to DO RIGHT.

Take a look at TOTKU's work.

http://www.totku.com/3.html

And write 3 sentences about WHERE YOU COULD GO here on campus to get a good abstract photograph.

OR discuss WHY someone would be attracted to THIS type of photography instead of photographing people or RECOGNIZABLE things...

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-end your comment with your First Initial and LAST NAME
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-hit the POST COMMENT button

still life assignment


This assignment is only 7 photos, BUT each one should be a very thoughtful and CONTROLLED set up of objects.

For full credit, you'll need to post each ORIGINAL IMAGE in your STILL LIFE folder in PhotoBucket AS WELL AS each image AFTER IT has been edited.



This assignment is DUE Jan 26th and will be worth 40 points... Yes, it is a BIG ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!And it is the last grade before the MIDTERM grades are out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1- Symmetry- In this picture, you are trying to take a picture that looks the same on the right side as it does on the left side, the objects do not have to be exactly the same, but it should be compositionally close...

2- Abstract - This is a photograph where you can't really tell what the objects IS.. It should be an interesting shape, texture, or pattern, pleasing to the eye- but a mystery!

3- Food - You're going to be arranging some food to be aesthetically pleasing... This can be anything food related, an obscene amount of plentiful overload, a football party spread, a birthday dessert, a romantic dinner, food growing in the garden, a meager snack, or your favorite meal... be sure to control the frame and only include things you INTEND to be in the picture!!!

4- Non-Sequitor- In this shot you are putting some object (or group of objects) in an unusual place for them to be in- By placing objects out-of-context, you create new meaning... A stuffed animal placed in an oven becomes a metaphor for animal abuse... A book in a tree translates into The Tree of Knowledge...

5- Ancient History - In this picture you will be photographing a thing or collection of things that are OVER 10 years old... Decaying and moldy objects can still be quite photogenic!!!

6- Chaos - This picture will depict the disorganization of life- you can find a place that is messed up or create a space that is messed up, BUT THINK ABOUT IT!!! Looking down in a garbage can at school may not be as photogenic as a drawer full of jumbled colored pencils... They are both 'chaotic' but the pencils would definately be more worthy of a photograph...

7- METAPHOR- your challenge in this one is to arrange objects that REPRESENT one of these 4 BIG themes- Love, Death, Family, or Power. How can you illustrate the idea of POWER by using large or small objects? Can you find objects that depict a visual notion of what LOVE is? This one is a 'toughy'... It may help you to look up the word METAPHOR, if you just don't 'get it'...

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Still Life Photos


REMINDER- The NATURE assignment is DUE TODAY!!! Don't forget to turn in a SELF EVALUATION sheet! I am grading these .t.o.n.i.g.h.t.!!!

So your NEW assignment -(I'll talk about it Wednesday)-is STILL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY, see the Blog post before this one.

As always, it is good to see how some
PROFESSIONALS approach this subject-
To INSPIRE you...
Scroll down through these 35 examples of amazing recent STILL LIFE photographs-

http://www.thephotoargus.com/inspiration/35-superb-examples-of-still-life-photography/


The questions are-

Which one of these do you think was the hardest shot to set up?

Which one do you think uses LIGHTING or COLOR the best?

Which one do you think is too CLUTTERED?

Which one do you think is the MOST DRAMATIC or EMOTIONAL?

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-click the little brownish link below that says the number of comments on this blog-
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-end your comment with your First Initial and LAST NAME
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-hit the POST COMMENT button