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Title

Course Resources - HS Photography

Content

The Great Courses - Fundamentals of Photography

Assignment Ideas (Draft form)

skills	Fundamentals of Photography
	Lectures
A1, A3, A4, B3, B4, B7, C1, C2, C3, D3, D4	Making Great Pictures - Feb 10-14 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Use the internet explore the work of three great photographers, Ansle Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Paul Nicklen. Select three photographs, one from each photographer, and list the qualities of the picture that make it great. Include not only the artistic elements (composition, colour, form) but also the content of the image, the statement it is making in history, the emotions it is intended to evoke. (email)
D1 D4	Camera Equipment---What You Need - Feb 17 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/written)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Lenses and Focal Length - Feb 24 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Take a series of photographs exploring the lessons on lense and focal lengths you have learned. Share these photos with Mrs. French and discuss. (skype)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Shutter Speeds - March 3 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Take a series of photographs exploring the lessons on shutter speed you have learned. Ideas - motion photos, swimmers in action. Share these photos with Mrs. French and discuss. (skype)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Aperture and Depth of Field - March 10 Oral summary of lecture (skype) Picture examples. Take a series of photographs exploring the lessons on apeture and depth of field you have learned. Share these photos with Mrs. French and discuss. (skype)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Light I---Found or Ambient Light - March 31 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) no picture assigment.
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Light II---Color and Intensity - April 7th Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Using concepts from the Light II lecture take a series of photographs that explore the five senses. From those photographs refine your work and select 5 of the best to create a series that embody the sense. Share with Mrs. and discuss. (skype)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	(8) Light III---Introduced Light - April 14 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Using concepts from the Light I to Light III lectures take a series of photographs that explore the properties of light and how it can be manipulated by the photographer to produce a different effect. From those photographs refine your work and select 3-5 to expound on. For each photograph describe how you used the properties of light to get a desired effect. (email/powerpoint)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	(9)Composition I---Seeing Well - May 23 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far take a series of photographs that explore the idea of Family. From those photographs refine your work and select 3 to 5 to create a series that embody what Family means to you. Share with Mrs. and discuss. (skype)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Composition II---Background and Perspective - May 23 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far take a series of photographs that explore the idea of perspective. From those photographs refine your work and select 3 to 5 to create a series that show how the perspect with which we view something can change the way we feel about it. Organize your work in a prestation adding words creatively to enhance your message(email/ powerpoint)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Composition III---Framing and Layering - May 30 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far revisit some of the images you have explored earlier in the course and refine them to take advantage of different framing or layering options. For example take a portrait of a family from an earlier assignment and create a series of photographs of close ups of individuals in that family group. Share with Mrs. and discuss. (skype)
A6 B8 D6 D7 D8	Let's Go to Work---Landscapes - May 30 Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email) Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far take a series of Landscape photographs. From those photographs refine your work and select 3 to 5 to create a series that tell a story about a certain place. Organize your work in a prestation adding words creatively to enhance your message(email/ powerpoint)
	Final Project - Context Assignment - June 13th Design a final project to cover any of the Context outcomes below not addressed in project above.

skills

Fundamentals of Photography

Lectures

A1, A3, A4, B3, B4, B7, C1, C2, C3, D3, D4

Making Great Pictures - Feb 10-14

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Use the internet explore the work of three great photographers, Ansle Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Paul Nicklen. Select three photographs, one from each photographer, and list the qualities of the picture that make it great. Include not only the artistic elements (composition, colour, form) but also the content of the image, the statement it is making in history, the emotions it is intended to evoke. (email)

Camera Equipment---What You Need - Feb 17

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/written)

Lenses and Focal Length - Feb 24

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Take a series of photographs exploring the lessons on lense and focal lengths you have learned. Share these photos with Mrs. French and discuss. (skype)

Shutter Speeds - March 3

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Take a series of photographs exploring the lessons on shutter speed you have learned. Ideas - motion photos, swimmers in action. Share these photos with Mrs. French and discuss. (skype)

Aperture and Depth of Field - March 10

Oral summary of lecture (skype)
Picture examples. Take a series of photographs exploring the lessons on apeture and depth of field you have learned. Share these photos with Mrs. French and discuss. (skype)

Light I---Found or Ambient Light - March 31

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
no picture assigment.

Light II---Color and Intensity - April 7th

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Using concepts from the Light II lecture take a series of photographs that explore the five senses. From those photographs refine your work and select 5 of the best to create a series that embody the sense. Share with Mrs. and discuss. (skype)

(8) Light III---Introduced Light - April 14

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Using concepts from the Light I to Light III lectures take a series of photographs that explore the properties of light and how it can be manipulated by the photographer to produce a different effect. From those photographs refine your work and select 3-5 to expound on. For each photograph describe how you used the properties of light to get a desired effect. (email/powerpoint)

(9)Composition I---Seeing Well - May 23

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far take a series of photographs that explore the idea of Family. From those photographs refine your work and select 3 to 5 to create a series that embody what Family means to you. Share with Mrs. and discuss. (skype)

Composition II---Background and Perspective - May 23

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far take a series of photographs that explore the idea of perspective. From those photographs refine your work and select 3 to 5 to create a series that show how the perspect with which we view something can change the way we feel about it. Organize your work in a prestation adding words creatively to enhance your message(email/ powerpoint)

Composition III---Framing and Layering - May 30

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far revisit some of the images you have explored earlier in the course and refine them to take advantage of different framing or layering options. For example take a portrait of a family from an earlier assignment and create a series of photographs of close ups of individuals in that family group. Share with Mrs. and discuss. (skype)

Let's Go to Work---Landscapes - May 30

Oral/written summary of lecture (skype/email)
Picture examples. Using concepts from the videos you have explored so far take a series of Landscape photographs. From those photographs refine your work and select 3 to 5 to create a series that tell a story about a certain place. Organize your work in a prestation adding words creatively to enhance your message(email/ powerpoint)

Final Project - Context Assignment - June 13th

Design a final project to cover any of the Context outcomes below not addressed in project above.

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