FRI: Portrait Walk

No Computers!

"The purpose of portrait photography is to draw someone's personality out"

No Computers Warm-UP: 

• Depending on class...
• The Art of Portrait Photography [08]
• Famous Portrait photographers & their pictures [2:30]
• Portraits from last year

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can take a portrait that tells a person's 'story'

Homework:  

•  DUE Tuesday 1/22/19:  Photo Challenge #28:
• You have a three-day weekend - take many shots, three go in the class album, the one best on your personal photo blog with the reflection.  You are encouraged to take GROUP Portraits for this challenge.



28

Portrait: Family

Whether it's the family you are born with or the one you choose, show the world what family is to you.

Announcements: 

• Be prepared to go OUTSIDE every class

Agenda: [60]

• Warm-UP  [15]
• Taking a good portrait (review) [05]
• Have an idea
• This is not a snapshot, this is a planned picture that tells a story
• Who is your subject? 
• What kind of person are they?  Are they serious, smart, goofy?
• What is the mood?
• Is this a happy picture, a sad one, and exciting one, or what?
• Use your techniques!
• Where is your light?
• Are there colors to emphasize?
• What is the background?
• How are you using shadows?
• Would a different angle make things better?
• How much of your subject are you showing?
• What else can we see in the picture?
• The Assignment [40]
• Take an amazing portrait of at least TWO people
• You should take a LOT of photos of each person so that you can submit the BEST one possible
• You should be taking pictures or looking for the "right shot" 100% of the time
• Show a minimum of 2/3 of their face
• Show no more than their UPPER TORSO (waist to head)
• Have your own portrait taken by at least TWO people
• Complete the portrait list worksheet and turn it in TODAY
• TOMORROW 
• Upload your two best portraits to the proper album
• BREAK NO SCHOOL RULES while doing this assignment
• Do NOT cross the street
• No Headphones
• No messing around

WED/THU: The Photo Blogs & Intro to Portrait Photography

BEFORE you type...

[If you did your homework]

Share your Landscape: Water with your school account

Make a personal album of all of your shots

Select 3

Add them to the appropriate class album

P1 Landscape: Water

P3 Landscape: Water

P4 Landscape: Water

P5 Landscape: Water

When finished start typing.

"The purpose of portrait photography is to draw someone's personality out"

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 learn to take a portrait that tells a person's 'story'
• I can use the critique process on the work of others in order to gain more insight into my own work.

Homework:  

•  DUE Tuesday 1/15/19:  Photo Challenge #28:
• You have a three-day weekend - take many shots, three go in the class album, the one best on your personal photo blog with the reflection.  You are encouraged to take GROUP Portraits for this challenge.



28

Portrait: Family

Whether it's the family you are born with or the one you choose, show the world what family is to you.

Announcements: 

• We are going out next class to take portraits
• NOBODY showed up for office hours Tuesday so I am now assuming you can all process your photos into the class albums on your own.
• Grades are now being computed daily: Plagiarized photos are cause for a failing UNIT grade.

Photo Unit Reminders & Resources:

• www.Blogger.com
• Artistic: Food class albums
• P1 Artistic: Food, P3 Artistic: Food, P4 Artistic: Food, P5 Artistic: Food
• Photo Walk #1 class albums
• P1 Class Album, P3 Class Album, P4 Class Album, P5 Class Album
• JK & Professional Photos for inspiration & enjoyment
• Portrait Examples
• John's Photo Blog for this Unit
• 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: [100...]

• Challenge #29 processing [10]

29

Landscape: Waterscape

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

• Typing.com [05...15]
• Reviewing Landscape: Water [15]
• Our Second Blog Post(s) [45]

• Select YOUR best photo from the three in the class album

P1 Landscape: Water

P3 Landscape: Water

P4 Landscape: Water

P5 Landscape: Water

• DOWNLOAD it to your computer

• Go to blogger.com and create a NEW POST

• At the top of the blank page click the ADD IMAGES button

• Select CHOOSE FILES and navigate to the photo you just downloaded

• Select the photo once it is uploaded and hit the ADD SELECTED button

• Select the picture and make it as large as fits (for now)

• Add and format the reflection paragraph after or alongside the photo
• HOW did you take this picture? (What did you physically do?)
• HOW does the picture answer the challenge?
• What TECHNIQUES did you use to help you meet the challenge?

• Name your post with the name of the challenge & Publish it.

• Portrait Photography [15]

• Have an idea
• This is not a snapshot, this is a planned picture that tells a story
• Who is your subject? 
• What kind of person are they?  Are they serious, smart, goofy?
• What is the mood?
• Is this a happy picture, a sad one, and exciting one, or what?
• Use your techniques!
• Where is your light?
• Are there colors to emphasize?
• What is the background?
• How are you using shadows?
• Would a different angle make things better?
• How much of your subject are you showing?
• What else can we see in the picture?
• The Art of Portrait Photography [08]
• Famous Portrait photographers & their pictures [2:30]
• Portraits from last year

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?

MON: 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:  Photo Challenge #36:  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.

36

Artistic: Food

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

Announcements: 

• We are going out this month to take nature pictures around the lake,  portraits and more!
• You must be willing to actually walk outside

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
• 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: [65...]

• Typing.Com+ [10]
• RECENT Photos
• John's light experiments on Saturday
• John's Moss experiments on Sunday
• Critique of Photo Walk #1 Photos continued [...]
• David Yarrow Reveals his Photography Secrets [12]
• More GOLDEN RULES of photography [15] 
• 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?

Fri: Critique Day #1 (Rule of Thirds)

Turn in your PERMISSION SLIP

Come to school NO LATER than 8AM on Monday

unless...

You STILL do not have photos online

then, call John  over

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.
• I will learn to take better pictures - even with a crappy camera

Homework:  

•  DUE Next Class:  Photo Challenge #36:  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.

36

Artistic: Food

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

Announcements: 

• We are going out this month to take nature pictures around the lake,  portraits and more!
• You must be willing to actually walk outside

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
• 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]

• Warm-Up: Typing.com [10]

• Did you miss yesterday? Check with John for a new seat!
• Record your new seat here!
• We had a BIG DAY last class!
• After proposing our partner We Changed our blogger settings for privacy, & our comment settings to moderated, found our Photo Walk #1 photos, moved them to our school accounts, and used a 2 step process to figure out which three we wanted to submit for critique to the class album! Then we did it!
• Today, critique!