Get thinking about Photography!!!

Awesome Surreal Photography

New School Year

I will only have periodic postings because this course is taught during the spring semester.  If you are a photo student you may find some of the past works by students helpful to inspire you.  Best advice - keep taking photos. 

Shared Experience of Absurity

Keep taking photographs and make something amazing!

Talks | TEDx

Charlie Todd: Shared Experience of Absurdity

Straight Photography with Verbal Prompts mixed in with captured images of our "Little Friend".  Fun with Photography.

Multiplicity

Multiplicity-  Students learned how to use Photoshop to stack and merge images for a cloning effect in one scene.

Butterfly Effect-

Students learned how to take images to create new compositions. 

Playing with Portraits

We have been busy working with portraits.  Our focus has been on five different categories-

1. Alter Your Perspective (AYP)

2. Play with Eye Contact (PWEC)

3. Looking Off Camera (LOC)

4. Obscure the Figure (OTF)

5. Introduce a Prop (IAP)

Now- we are learning how to manipulate or work in Photoshop to create new illusions.

Rule of Thirds

Student class examples of the Rule of Thirds

Great Examples of Framing

Great article on taking photos from fresh perspectives

Going Beyond Shooting at Eye Level

Still Photography- Power in the Message

Power of Still Image

Toy Photography

Clever Toy Photographers

Toy photography provides great opportunities for clever composition, creative lighting and a chance to really have some fun. When done right a photographer can breath life and personality into the inanimate objects being shot. I think these examples really reflect this.

For the Animal Photographers

Photographer Isa Leshko is traveling to sanctuaries across the country to photograph animals that are elderly or at the end stage of their lives. “I began the series as a means of exploring my feelings about my mother’s decline due to Alzheimer’s Disease,” she says. “As I’ve worked on this project, though, I’ve come to realize that these images are a testament to survival and endurance. And they raise questions about what it means to be elderly.”
Elderly Animals - Series

Framing- Photo Shoot

Framing Technique

Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds Guidelines

Check the link for more clarification on the guidelines for applying the Rule of Thirds.

Finding your own Aesthetic

Make sure you have your photos and Eight Slides posted on the SkyDrive for Media Art.  We will critique our work in class starting Monday.

New Year- 2012

Beginning a new semester with Media Art Students.  Lessons and works coming soon!

How to get Organized for a Successful Semester
 in Media Art

Media Art Classroom Blog to follow for lessons, tutorials, and student examples-

http://usartstudioschultz.blogspot.com/

Please make sure you are saving your images on a flash drive/ outside hard drive as the original format.  
*** Keep the folders separate from one another.  When we begin manipulating the files you will need more storage space for works in progress- not flattened PSD files.