TUE: Artistic: FOOD & Composition Techniques

unless...

You STILL do not have photos online

then, call John  over

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we take good pictures no matter what kind of camera we have at the moment? 
• How can we use our critical thinking skills to MAKE a good picture happen?

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can use the critique process on the work of others in order to gain more insight into my own work.

Homework:  

•  DUE NEXT Class (Wed/Thu):  Photo Challenge #29:  Take as many shots as you want to try and answer this challenge.  You will upload THREE to Google photos and then choose ONE to put on your blog as the first fully graded photo. You will need to write a paragraph or more on how you took this picture, how it meets the challenge, and what techniques you used to meet the challenge.

29

Landscape: Waterscape

Ocean, lake, river, pond, or puddle. Make water the primary subject of this landscape.

 

Announcements: 

• We are going out this FRIDAY to take portraits
• If he were alive, today would be my father's 100th birthday

Photo Unit Reminders & Resources:

• www.Blogger.com
• The Photo Walk #1 class albums
• P1 Class Album, P3 Class Album, P4 Class Album, P5 Class Album
• RECENT Photos
• John's light experiments on Saturday
• John's Moss experiments on Sunday
• Bring Fully Charged Cell Phones and Cameras , John will mock your diagonal pictures unless you can tell him why you took it that way, All photos taken must be ONLINE before the next class - we do NOT upload our cell phone photos in class.

Agenda: [60...]

• Typing.Com [10]

•  DUE THIS Class:  Photo Challenge #36:  [20]
• Using this BLOG and your partner follow the steps for adding your photos to the class photo album. NEXT time you should be able to do this in 10 minutes, by yourself...

36

Artistic: Food

Take your food photography to the next level. It's not lunch, its art.

• SHARE your Artistic: Food photos to your School Account if necessary
• Put them in an ALBUM named Artistic: Food

• STAR the maybes

• SELECT the THREE BEST
• ADD those three to the Class Album
• P1 Artistic: Food
• P3 Artistic: Food
• P4 Artistic: Food
• P5 Artistic: Food
• SELECT the ONE BEST
• DOWNLOAD it to your computer

• STOP HERE and wait.  Look at the pictures that have been uploaded already.
• Posting your first picture to your BLOG (here's mine) [30]

1. HOW did you take this picture? (What did you physically do?)
2. HOW does the picture answer the challenge?
3. What TECHNIQUES did you use to help you meet the challenge?

• More GOLDEN RULES of photography [...] 
• Golden Ratio 1:1.6, Golden Spiral, and other Composition Techniques
• Divine Composition With Fibonacci’s Ratio (The Rule of Thirds on Steroids)
• 20 Composition Techniques That Will Improve Your Photos
               

                 

Balance & repetition 

Leave Space

Fill the frame

                    Leading Lines

                          Rule of Odds

Simplify

• Looking at more of John's Photos
• What RULES do I use?