Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Choices... v2.0

please post your "choices" ponderings here

Thursday, May 21, 2009

ART EXPO


Please turn in one image (from any point throughout the semester) to enter in the art expo. There is a specific B&W category... These are due Tuesday May 26th.

Upcoming Dates

June 1: Annual Day
June 4: All borrowed Equipment must be returned (if you want to graduate)
June 9: Senior Finals (portfolios due for seniors)
June 18: Portfolios due for remainder of class

CHOICES...







This is our last assignment before we begin to assemble our portfolios. As such it is your first assignment which is wide open. For this assignment you will be shooting two (2) rolls of film and be submitting 2 contact sheets and 3 prints. The topic for this assignment is entirely up to you. You can chose a specific subject, style, technique, theme, concept, etc. Examples from past semesters are: Macro photography (close ups), holga shots, portraits, animals, textures, shadows, leading lines, architecture, Seattle, nature, the 7 deadly sins, friends, sports, fire, water, love, and infinite others...

The 3 pictures you print from this roll will be included in your 8 image final portfolio. The other 5 images are entirely up to you, they can be new images, repeats from other assignments, the only requirement is they come from this term.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

ACTION!!!













One of the great benefits of an SLR camera is the ability to manipulate images with the use of the shutter's speed. Our next assignment is going to be an experiment in this, working with stopping, blurring, and showing action in our images. We will be using 3 techniques.

  • Freezing action - (fast shutter speeds: >1/125 second)
  • Blurring action - (slow shutter speeds <1/30>
  • Panning - (slow shutter speeds <1/15>
how to pan:

The basic idea behind panning as a technique is that you pan your camera along in time with the moving subject and end up getting a relatively sharp subject but a blurred background.

This gives the shot a feeling of movement and speed. It’s particularly useful in capturing any fast moving subject whether it be a racing car, running pet, cyclist etc.

Panning seems to work best with moving subjects that are on a relatively straight trajectory which allows you to predict where they’ll be moving to. Objects that are moving side to side are challenging and can result in messy looking shots as the motion blur can be quite erratic.