Choosing a theme for your portraiture unit

http://www.flickr.com/groups/fineportraiture/

Theme ideas:
-everything green
-self portrait
-film still portraiture
-black and white
-in the garden
-reflection
-me,myself and I (posed portraits with more than one of you)
-'they look like dolls'
-clown portraits
-polaroid portraits
-haunted portraits
-western images
-sepia
-child poses
-everything has a hat
-moms
-costumes that are somehow related
-playing with double images
-High Key
-After Warhol

Good morning

Hi everyone! I am away this morning BUT I will be back tomorrow :)
Please make sure you update your blogs and check for comments (unless you have not posted anything new lately)
GRADE 11s
Black and white--should be posted
Abstract --should be posted
Portraiture *starting this week. REMEMBER* think of a theme for your portraits.

GRADE 12s (working on portfolios)
should have conquered many of the sections (4-5 out of the six would be good)

Check if you have added all of the photos of the week:
Week one: March 1-4       ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER
Week two: March 7-11 POST BY MARCH 11 STRANGE AND PECULIAR
Week three: March 14-18 HANDS
After Spring Break
April 4-8 CLOSE-UP
April 11-15- Water
April 18-21- Secret Passage
April 26-30 - The sun http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/27/27.php

May 2-6- DANCE
May 9-12- Burst of Colour
May 16-20- Empty Room
May 24-27- Garbage
May 30-June 3- Extreme Light
June 6-10- Emotion
June 13-17- CATCH UP: no photo of the week


THIS WEEK BURST OF COLOUR. Please post by THURSDAY as FRIDAY is a Pro-D day :)
These are just some images to show you many different ways people take portraits.

Good afternoon

Today is the last day to post your DANCE photo. Grade 11 should have:
Black and white images
Abstract images
and be working on portraiture

Grade 12 should have:
3 sections of portfolio (from last semester) PLUS faceless images
you should have completed AT LEAST 1-2 sections for this term because you need 6 sections

Young photographers
http://www.nonsensesociety.com/2010/05/10-young-photographers/ we will look at some of the work from Artist/photographers from all around the world.

ATTENTION PHOTO 12- Consider your landscape images and look at the work of
Mark Suarez. He places his landscape images into a circle shape. See Below
Mark Suarez is an artist and graphic/web designer. He is married and lives in Greenwood SC.
He has been an artist since the age of three and is also a musician.

How to????

Open Photoshop

press in between both layers and hit ALT and click with the mouse. You will then CUT OUT your image.

http://www.nonsensesociety.com/2010/05/10-young-photographers/

Today we will take another look at the Young photographers (top 10 to watch out for)
Reminder * If photo is something you are interested in then pls consider joining the
Young Photographers club see the post from yesterday.

Double Block

I hope the sun is shinning today :)
Today we will discuss young photographers. Yesterday, we looked a the first photographers mentioned and today we will glance over the work of a few more.
http://www.nonsensesociety.com/2010/05/10-young-photographers/



These photos were created by Alexandria Sophie,  she is 17 and from France.



Young Photographers Unite
http://ypu.org/
-Get a free personal website
-get noticed by companies
-Promote your work internationally

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Consider joining special groups to promote your work (even if it is a hobby simply: get inspired)

Today we will look at some artists who work in primarily portraiture and learn some tips and pointers on taking great photographs. Remember*

-have a theme

-Set a schedule

-Be prepared

-Post at least 4 Portraits

You cannot complete this assignment until you have taken at least 25 portraits on the digital camera and saved them in your folder – the more pictures you take, the better results you will get. You will be turning in your 4 BEST portraits for this assignment. Criteria 1. Create a series of portraits
2. All photos that you use for this assignment MUST be originals of yours that you took with a digital camera this semester.
3. Your 3 portraits must be part of a series and have a theme (either compositional style or subject matter or both.)
4. You must digitally change the images using one or more of the techniques you learned in tutorial #1 (cropping, change the color, adjust the levels – make sure the change or changes that you make enhance your photo making it a better composition or more eye-catching in some way.)
5. Always save your images in your personal folder under documents(just in case!!)
6. Turn your portraits into the shared folder for our class in the PORTRAITS folder. Create a folder with your name on it and save your 4 portraits into that folder. Examples of good portraits
look online, check out Vanderhoof photographers:
-Kevin Wallace
-Lorne Clarke (Clarke Action Photogrphy)
http://www.annploeger.com/
http://www.dawoudbey.net/
http://www.blueskygallery.org/

Good Morning!

Good morning, I hope you are all well rested and ready for another wonderful week. Last class we went on a paparazzi jaunt and photographed the senior dance class. Today you must look through your images and post the best image (can be altered in photoshop) I would also like you to add more and comment on the experience (it doesn't have to be long, just comment)

Today and throughout the week we will look at some young photographers:     cool link