End of the year assessments- Walk About with Little Friend

Zack Farrar

Every year we wrap up the semester with a photo shoot on campus with verbal prompts.  The verbal prompts are to demonstrate a technique, rule, or specific problem.  The little friend adds a new twist and sets up challenges for the photographer to help their creativity.  

I am pleased with the outcome of the photo shoot- clever, creative, and stunning images.  When assessing the final photo submissions I found myself laughing at the imagery.  Here are a few and a link to the gallery of the students works.

Walk About with Verbal Prompts

Excited for next years new photographers!  They have big shoes to fill.

Anna Daerr

Ivy Cox

Anna Toepfer

Portrait Series- Old Finnish People With Things On Their Heads

Interesting Photographers Series

Check out the link:

http://fullym.com/old-finnish-people-with-things-on-their-heads-amazing-photo-series/

Face as Canvas

This semester is coming to a close so a lesson was planned around the popular motifs discovered through the students photo shoots.
Portraits are the popular subject so a lesson was created to use a Face as a Canvas.  Students selected a portrait to use as a canvas for other textures and imagery.

Anna Daerr

Mary Hannah Madigan

Anna Toepfer

Students merged images, selected filters and opacity, arranged orientation of images, and style of coloring. The final compositions exhibit the students understanding of the Photoshop tools and their level of artistry.  Original compositions- amazing results.

  Follow link to the rest of the classes works- http://www.edcanvas.com/lessons/RXJdIwNJve_-oA/edit#play

Creating Some Band Album Covers

Alyssa Davis


Band Album Cover- Class Works- Check It Out

Natalie Zolten

We have learned several ways to manipulate our original photography and how to use different techniques using Photoshop. We are getting better at exploring what we can do on our own more and more.  Photoshop is a powerful tool and I am always proud when my students learn some new technique by self discovery.  Learning by intrinsic motivation is so much more rewarding.
Here are some wonderful ideas-

Julianna Williams

Ivy Cox

CLONING- the wonderful things we can do!

Katie Hadden

     Follow this link to view more student works: 
http://www.edcanvas.com/lessons/aBrGZ_v1_v8uWg/edit#play

Name Project

Clever ideas by creative students- Name Project

Congratulations to Katie McCain

Katie McCain submitted a portrait of Anna Daerr for the Congressional 2nd District Art Competition and won third place.  

Exciting news!

Congressman Tim Griffin and Katie McCain