August 12, 2011
August 12, 2011
August 9, 2011
Library Project
Browse the Photography section of the library and choose a photographer or an artist who uses photography in his or her work and whose work interests you. Please do not pick an artist whose work you already know.
The project will consist of two parts: research and presentation on your blog. Research should be done in the library looking at photo books. Once you final an artist you are inspired by write down their name and come back to the lab and Google the artist. Post the name, some information about their work and two pictures of the photographers work.
Explain why this artist interests you and how his or her work influences your own photographs and your ideas. What, in particular, captivates you about this artist? Are there key concepts or aesthetic concerns that you both share?
We will then share our post with the class.
August 8, 2011
August 8, 2011
Exquisite Corpse PART 2
Using Photoshop you are going to create an Exquisite Corpse using the images of your classmates.
Open Adobe Photoshop CS 5 and create a new document (File-New).
Title the document “Exquisite Corpse”.
Make the width 11 inches and the height 17” with a resolution of 200 with a transparent background.
Open all your body part photographs in Photoshop.
Crop the photographs so you have a tight crop of the body part.
Use the “Move” tool to drag your images into the “Exquisite Corpse” document.
Each time you drag an image a new layer will be created which contains that image.
Start with one image at a time and edit the scale by using the “Transform” feature (Edit-Transform) to change the scale (hold down the shift key to prevent distortion), rotate the image or flip the image. After you have finished your transformation hit return. You can use the “Move” tool to reposition that image layer after you have dragged in all your images.
After your “corpse” is assembled use the editing tools to create the final collage. You can play with the filters, colors adjustments or anything you can decide on as a group. Have fun, experiment with Photoshop. Think outside the bounds, try something new! Remember the Surrealist Manifesto….the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.
August 8, 2011
August 8, 2011
Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) or rotating corpse is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled to form a body/person . Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.
An Exquisite Corpse is a collage. What is a collage?
The technique was invented by Surrealists.
August 8, 2011
What is Surrealism???
Sur - re - al - ism (n.) -(often l.c.) a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published “The Surrealist Manifesto” in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely, that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.
August 7, 2011
Exquisite Corpse PART 1
We are going to divide into groups of 4. We are going to go around the room and count off in to groups of 4. Then within your group you will all be assigned a number 1-4
Your number will correlate into a body part. Have someone in your group photograph that body part. Use one camera.
1- Head
2 - Torso
3 - Arms/hands
4- Legs/feet
Come back to class and upload your photographs onto one computer.. Save the photographs to temp/YASP_name/images/day 6. Then open Adobe Bridge CS5 and arrange the images in the order listed above. If you took multiple photographs for a body part, please select the one you want to use and place them in a folder called “selected body parts” and place the extra photographs you do not want to use in a folder called “extra body parts”.
August 7, 2011
Weekend Homework
Shoot like a photographer.
Experience your weekend through pictures.
The lens is your eye, shoot everything!
August 4, 2011
Homework Day 4
Shoot, Shoot, Shoot! Time to really dig in and shoot for your Theme Project.
Tomorrow we will be editing and prepping our files for printing.
August 4, 2011
Triptych
What is a tripych? well….it a set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures. Today we are going to make a triptych from your “non-Self Portrait” homework project.
Upload homework to temp/your folder/images/day 4. Then open the images in Adobe Bridge CS5. Pick 3 images that work together as a group. Create a contact sheet and save it in temp/your folder/edited images.
Open those 3 images in Photoshop and edit the images using levels, curves, exposure and brightness/contrast. Make sure you add this changes as “New Adjustment Layers” which is located in Photoshop under “Layers” in the menu bar.
Also make a selection using one of the selection tools and edit that selection using one of the adjustments listed above.
Resize your images so they are all 5” wide and the same height. You may need to crop the image to make the height is consistent. Make the DPI between 150 and 300. The DPI must be the same in all the images.
Open a new document the is 15” wide. The height and the DPI are the same as your other images.
Drag your three images into the new document using the “move tool” in Photoshop.
Arrange the three images so that the images make sense as a group. That there is a flow and a arrangement which makes creative sense.
Print this document to the Lab B Color printer using Tabloid paper.
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