FINAL PROJECT - PHO102B - DE
Print out this checklist http://www.pixelnrg.com/final_pho102de_checklist.pdf
• 8 digital images, a series
(the series should be worked on over a period of time, not from just one shoot)
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/lensculture-editors-13-favorite-conceptual-photography-series-from-2014 to get you thinking
-Start with a concept. What do you want to say as a photographer/artist. What do you want you viewer to feel, experience?
-Make good exposures in camera.
-Compose the work in camera. You can crop to refine your vision, but cropping pixels limits the size you might want to print down the road so use as much of that sensor as you can, get in close, fill the frame. remember the rules of composition. have fun making your images.
-This is a Photoshop class, I expect
*Start the workflow in ACR. Choose a profile for color - Be consistent, this can help unify your series. Work your color here. Straighten, use a linear gradient, if appropriate here. etc.
*retouching -remove distractions in the image •If a person, work your portrait retouching skills•
*color correction (global and localized) •I want to see layer masks in all files•
*sharpening -think if you want to add some creative sharpening or softening to your image, remember to sharpen for output.
*You can start to explore composite imagery if you desire.
Videos to inspire you
Getting started thinking about your final portfolio http://goo.gl/SGqQeb
Protz artist statement portfolio http://goo.gl/D5C3DB
Turn in on Canvas
8 images layered: - images sized to 2160 Pixels on the longest side, 240ppi, 8bit, saved as .PSD
-include layers, do not flatten. LAYER MASKS ARE REQUIRED ON ALL FILES, Should be sharpening, color correction etc.
8 images flattened: same images as above sized to: 3000px on longest side, 72ppi saved as .jpg (a .jpg is a flattened compressed file)
•Contact sheet 1 of your 8 final Master Images. Set up the contact sheet with 2 columns x 4 rows.-include titles on this contact sheet
***you will get “0” points for the contact sheet if the images are not titled***
•Contact sheets 2-? Containing all images photographed for final project. Yes I really want you to explore your subject. Shoot a ton. The more you shoot and explore the more successful your final images will be. You will have a choice of images to use, you can build on your successes. these contact sheets can have 60 images on a page. (yes they will be small, what I am looking at is how many images you photographed to get to your final 8)
Save as .jpg and upload to canvas
Type in a word document - Submit Through Canvas with your image files.
•A page with the techniques used for the project. Photoshop techniques used for each image, list the images by title and tell me the techniques used on each. Feel free to discuss shooting techniques, thoughts from the shoots, your research to get to the final project and any conceptual ideas in the series.
•The title of your series. Your series could be untitled but tell me why it is untitled,
•The concept of your series, why is it a series? What holds the images together?
•What photographic category your work falls into.
•List what photography classes you have taken so far.
•Include your name, class, and time on this paper.
Turn in above material
Objective:
– To demonstrate the skills acquired during the past 15 weeks
– To photograph, image correct and print images for presentation
– To present the work in a professional way, -named and sized properly
– To show a cohesive body of work
(a series of images held together by subject, style, color, content, etc.)
Only work photographed by YOU and shot this semester will be accepted for the final project.
(You do not have to use every skill learned this semester. Use the appropriate skill for what you are trying to say with your images)
– All work must be retouched, color corrected, dodged, burned, enhanced, sharpened. I will be looking for the use of layer masks on all images.
– All work handed in must have been worked in a NON-DESTRUCTIVE manner.
Include all layers, layer masks, adjustment layers, etc.
Remember what we explored this semester, retouching, hand coloring, duotones, portrait retouching, liquify, sizing of images, vignettes, blur, that gallery print look, panoramas, black and whites, compositing.
Photographic Category:
These are a few, your work may fit into more than one category!
•Fine Art •Conceptual •Abstract •Surreal •Constructed
•Portraiture •People •Fashion
•Journalism •Documentary •Street photography
•Architecture
•Landscape •Nature •Wildlife
•Still life, Studio, Tabletop, Food, Product, etc
•Wedding
•Sports •Action •Aerial •Underwater
•Night
•Macro •Close-up
•Commercial
Great books to get you thinking:
Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images [Paperback]
-Terry Barrett
http://www.amazon.com/Criticizing-Photographs-Introduction-Understanding-Images/dp/0767411862
The Elements of Photography: Understanding and Creating Sophisticated Images [Paperback]
Angela Faris Belt (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Photography-Understanding-Creating-Sophisticated/dp/0240809424/ref=pd_sim_b_26
Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art [Paperback]
John Szarkowski
http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Photographs-Pictures-Collection-Museum/dp/0870705156/ref=pd_sim_b_92
Why People Photograph [Paperback]
Robert Adams
http://www.amazon.com/Why-People-Photograph-Robert-Adams/dp/0893816035/ref=pd_sim_b_2
Ideas for your final: Things to get you thinking!
What is a series? A set of images that relate to one another.
ex: portraits, tabletop photography, fremont street, a street fair, landscape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_essay
Photographers to look at:
http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/#mi=22&pt=0&pi=6&at=1
http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/intro/index.html
https://www.photoeye.com/gallery/
http://janetbordeninc.com/artists/
What is Conceptual Photography?
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/c/conceptual-photography
https://www.iberdrola.com/culture/conceptual-photography
Subjectivity Versus Objectivity:
http://www.compellingimaging.com/theblog/fact-photography-is-subjective
https://09slyounghusband.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/objective-and-subjective-photography/
It is best to turn in the work early.
The system can glitch with potentially 40,000 students turning in work all at once.
No late projects will be accepted.