In-Class Image Assignments 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

To turn these images in, just place them all on a contact sheet with labels that indicate the number of the exercise. You can also (not required) pick one from each set, process them, and post them to your blog. Make these quickly, without too much thought. Try to embrace spontaneity and play! Work in groups of two or three so that one person will take the picture and the other person can be the subject.

4) Projection Self-Portrait

1. Pick 1 image (can be found online or one you have taken)

2. Take two photographs of the projection onto yourself

a. 1 should have a fast shutter speed and no subject movement

b. 1 should have slow shutter speed with subject movement

5) Self-Portrait with Text

1. Write something on a piece of white paper that “reveals something about you”
2. Photograph yourself holding this paper in front of you while you are standing in front of the backdrop
3. Take one picture using only 1 light
4. Take another picture using 2 lights
5. Take a third picture with the light angled in a unconventional direction
6. Processing
1. Color correction using the “white balance tool” in Camera Raw
2. Check your histogram
3. Process using Camera Raw adjustments
4. Can be color or black and white

6) Make a Wearable Sculpture to be captured with photography

1. Make an adornment using the paper given to you. Try to create something that emphasizes three-dimensionality so that light hits it in interesting ways and creates odd/unconventional/beautiful shadows.
2. Photograph a subject wearing this sculpture outside
1. Under shade
2. Backlit with the sun facing towards your camera and behind your subject. Try to create a silhouette by exposing for the sky and background instead of the subject.
3. Using a reflector

7) Digitize Yourself using a scanner:

Make a portrait using yourself and a scanner.

8) Chance Encounter with the “Frame”: Think of the frame as the edge of reality, a visual constraint, a demarcation, an empty canvas… Capture a subject’s “chance encounter” with the frame by taking a picture in which you do not look through the viewfinder. Surprise yourself!