WELCOME TO STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY!!!

 

Assignment 1: YOUR OWN WEBSITE

This class requires you to maintain a website of your work and photos.  It serves as a digital portfolio for you and a place for me to check your work.  Throughout the semester I will be giving you specific assignments that will be uploaded to your website.  At the end of the semester you should have a polished/professional looking website.  

 

Step 1:  go to wix.com and create an account.  If you already have an account from a previous art class you may use it as long as there is a page labeled with the course section. (i.e. Beginning Photography or Advanced Photography)

 

Step 2:  Decide on a layout that you would like to use.  I strongly recommend a photography site since it is already organized for a photography.

 

Step 3:  Personalize EVERYTHING and figure out how wix works.  At first, I am NOT going to help you with this part of the assignment.  I believe you will learn more by figuring it out yourself.  After you have played around and exhausted all options you may ask me for help.  FYI: I am a firm believer in ask 3 and then me.

 

Step 4:  Tell me who you are!  Make your site specific to you.  You will create a page titled, "About Me."  It should have a picture of yourself that you get from facebook, your cell phone, email, instagram, etc.  You will write 300 words telling me who you are and why you are the way you are.  You could start with a quote that describes you or your goals and go from there.  

 

GRADING:  This is a 100 point assignment.  

25 pts: Set up website 

25 pts: Insert a picture of yourself

25 pts:  300 words about yourself, your photography, your goals

25pts: Personalizing your site.  There shouldn't be anything left from wix.

 

ASSIGNMENT 2: NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

 

 

 

 

Please create a "Notes" page on your website and write 5 tips that will help you take better night photos after reading this page thoroughly!!!

http://digital-photography-school.com/light-painting-part-one-the-photography/

 

 

RAW IMAGES DUE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015

 

 

ASSIGNMENT 3: Choice Based Project, 1 Photoshop Essential Skill, 1 Complete Design Thinking Packet

Due: March 2 in print folder and ready for critique

 

Design Thinking Presentation

 

After we have gone through the Design Thinking Presentation as a class I would like for you to begin working through the design thinking packet.  You can find these in the green drawer labeled "Studio Photography".  This completed packet is due with the work on Monday, March 2 by the end of class.  Do not skip any steps or you will be marked down. 

 

You will also need to complete 1 Photoshop Essential Skill throughout the next two weeks.  This will be turned in on your website by March 2.  To begin working on PES go to photoshopessentials.com and pick something you would like to learn!

 

 

TRY OUT SOME FAKE LOMO'S HERE!

 

 

Final Reflective Questions: 

 

Please answer in paragraph form:

 

1) What is the central idea of your concentration?

 

2) How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea?  Refer to specific images as examples.