Fun Work | Post-Gluttony

Independent Project:

1. Create a 2-3 hour long project

2. Needs to pertain to photography, design, and art.

3. Cannot be doing your own project.

What is the project?

What are project goals / objectives

What kind of process is involved to complete project?

4. Present project to class NEXT WEEK!

iPhoto | Contact Sheet

If you're not able to make a contact sheet in Pixelmator, here is a tutorial for how you can do it in iPhoto.

http://iphoto.maccreate.com/2011/06/20/how-to-print-a-contact-sheet-in-iphoto11/

Fun Work | Thanksgiving

You guys have 12 whole days off! Lucky you. Fortunately for you I'm giving you just a little assignment to tide you over until we meet next:

1. Choose inanimate objects to shoot (2)

2. What is a contact sheet? Can you make it in Pixelmator?

3. Photograph chosen objects..... 75 TIMES!

4. Every photograph should be different (choose top 50 for EACH object).

5. Make 2 contact sheets w/ top 50 images.

6. On your blog in 2-3 paragraphs (4-6 sentences) white about this project. What did you like? What did you hate? Was it hard? How? What does it tell you about viewing the same object from a different perspective? How did you view the object at the end of shooting differently than when you began?

7. Present contact sheets/images to class next time we meet.

Again, if you have any questions or need to run anything by me please don't hesitate to shoot me an email or call.

jonny@verylongmedia.com

503.522.1961

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Week 7 | Fun Work

Here's what's on the agenda for next week:

1. Utilizing pencil, ink, acryllic, watercoulor, dirt, grass, or any other tools you'd like -- make me 3 different self portraits. Not the same one repeated, 3 different ones. Think about angles and viewpoints from which a viewer will be looking at your pictures. *

2. If you have access to a scanner, scan your images into the computer and upload to your blog. I would prefer you do it this way but if you must, take a quality picture of each picture and upload the pictures.

*This goes beyond drawing stick figures. I'm not the greatest at all with this type of assignment, but I consciously make time to do projects like this because they greatly enhance our abilities as artists. Being able to physically make an image drastically helps when it comes to producing images through photography or design.

You should spend at bare minimum 1.5-2 hours on this assignment. Please use a different format for each image (i.e. paint, ink, pencil). Conceptualize beforehand how you want to create your images. DO NOT just jump right into it, sketch it out and brainstorm first.

Week 6 | Fun Work

I hope you had a good time this last week and learned at least a few valuable things. I'll continually ask you to step outside of your comfort zones when it comes to Photography. So much about shooting photographs is about meeting and interacting with people. Even landscape and fine art photographers have to possess the ability to talk with people they don't know in order to find the best scenes.

We're taking a break from the quizzes for a week but in return I'll be asking you to write a one page long essay on the photographer that I assign you. Since I mentioned landscape photography, that's the genre we will cover. The pairings are as follows:

Grant - Joe Cornish

Tienna - Marc Adamus

Caeden - Patrick Endres

Kalin - Gordon Wiltsie

Ellie - Ian Cameron

JJ - Charles Cramer

Use your researching skills and Mr. Google to look at the landscape work of the assigned photographer.

Write a one page (5-7 paragraph) essay that you'll post to your blog.

Choose ten of your favourite photographs (of your particular photographer) and save to a new folder on your Desktop. On your blog, write a short summary about the photographer - what sort of locations do they shoot in? Describe their style. Talk about the subjects they choose, the colours they choose to highlight, and the way they frame their images.

On the same post, upload each of those ten images to your blog and write a short description of what you like about each image.

As always, let me know if you have any questions what so ever!