Due: Wednesday 9/8
4-8 portfolio-level images that serve your project (choose strongest images)
3 strongest images from initial shooting exercises
For each image, process in photoshop using best practices as taught in class
- Curve adjustment layer to set white/black points
- Contrast and / or brightness curve adjustment layer
- Dodge and burn layer (local adjustments)
- Color adjustment (if the image requires it), using curve and/or photo filter
Choose one of the following projects that calls out to you. Make it pertinent to your sensibility and interests. Create a group of photographs using strong techniques that expresses the ideas of your project. Work through and avoid clichés (e.g. smiley face for happy)— see if you can tackle the subject in a fresh, unique way that might not be so literal. Teach us something.
- The seven deadly sins: gluttony, sloth, envy, avarice (greed), temper, pride and lust
- The four cardinal emotions: sad, mad, glad, scared
- States of mind: awake, asleep, astute, mystical, altered, psychotic...
- You are what you eat
- People (or person) important to me
- Objects sacred to me
- Places important to me
Work will be evaluated on:
- Use of creative shooting strategies
- Interesting subject matter
- Successful balance of form and content (how your creative photography expresses your subject matter) to express your idea/theme/concept
- Successful use of Photoshop as taught in class
Artists for inspiration:
