SMALL WORLD Photoshoot (photo 1)

DUE: FRIDAY 11/19 (40 POINTS)

For this photoshoot we will be exploring the great indoors by playing with perspective! As we learned in class, perspective is not only where you place your camera frame but it can also dictate the kind of story you are trying to tell. Last year during the lockdown, an LA based travel photographer decided to create landscapes using everyday household items. She used different types of food, fabric, pillows, paper,  etc to make sweeping landscapes that bend the viewers perspective. For this photoshoot, you will be creating household landscapes of your very own! 

You will need to have one or two miniature toys (like a lego, model, doll, etc.) to place in your scenes. For this project you will create THREE very different landscapes using any household items. For example you can create a forest with broccoli, paper bags for a canyon, jello for a lake, sheets as an ice cave and so on. Please note that YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO USE FOOD, you can just as easily create these landscapes with non consumable items. Your final project will consist of a minimum of TWELVE images (four different compositions of each landscape) in your google Drive folder and THREE edited images from each of your different landscapes.

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WHAT YOU WILL TURN IN

• 1. Three edited images from three different “landscapes”

2. A QR code linked to your unedited Google Drive Folder. Must have a minimum of 12 images in this folder.

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student work

Night / Astrophotography Photoshoot (photo 2 & 3)

Due: Friday November 19 (40 points)

After this weekend, the night sky is going to appear earlier, which makes it THE PERFECT TIME for night / astrophotography. For this photoshoot you will be exploring the night sky using our classroom equipment: camera, tripod, and shutter shutter release. Before you can start on this assignment, be sure to turn in your equipment contract. I might also suggest that you bring a flashlight on this shoot in case you want to paint with light or add extra exposure on one part of your image. Sidenote: If you have personal equipment at home you would rather use, you may use that on this assignment. 

At this point you have started to investigate the process in which you can capture the night sky by reading an article and starting a mood board to help inspire your shoot. The goal of this assignment is to create a solid Night Exposure on the manual shooting mode. You will need to capture: one image of the night sky and one landscape of a city street, building or other manmade structure. 

What you will turn in:

• One edited night sky image

  • Rename: Sky_youriitials.jpg

• One edited cityscape / manmade structure image

  • Rename: City_yourinitials

• QR Code to your unedited images

 Forced Perspective | In class mini-shoot

due: Monday 11/8 (10 points)

In class we are going to go outside and explore the idea of forced perspective. But what is forced perspective?

Forced perspective is a photography technique that uses the space between your subjects to create an interesting or unusual relationship between them. This photography trick manipulates the viewer's perception of the space and distance between two objects, creating an optical illusion.
Forced perspective photography is common in both photography and videography, and it is often used to make people or objects appear to be larger, smaller, closer, or farther away than they really are. A common example of forced perspective photography is the classic photo of a tourist appearing to hold up the leaning tower of Pisa, where the angle of the shot is what makes it a convincing optical illusion. This photography technique makes it look like a person is large enough to hold up this giant building, when in reality, this perception is created through the distance of each subject from the camera. Forced perspective photography is often used in an attempt to trick the viewer's eye into perceiving a situation that isn't exactly what it seems. Another example of forced perspective that you may recognize can be found in movies where humans fight dinosaurs or giants and hobbits sit at the same table. In these situations, the dinosaur might actually be a small toy model, and the hobbit is simply sitting farther away from the camera to create the illusion of a vast difference in size.

You will find a group of 3 - 4 students. Using your PHONE CAMERAS each student will take ONE successful forced perspective EACH. Get creative with your compositions, place with space, play with orientation and have fun with this photoshoot!

What you will turn in:

• One fully edited forced perspective image

• Rename: Forced Perspective_yourinitials.jpg