Portrait Photography

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Daguerreotypes on Photoshop

Include your work on daguerreotypes.

INTENTION: To create a daguerreotype using Photoshop
THINGS TO Include:

- Examples of Daguerreotypes (google images), notes of qualities of them

- Original photos (of texture and gaze)

- screen grabs showing process, what worked and what did not work

- reflections on your photos

-What did you learn

WHAT's NEXT?

How will you improve

HOMEWORK: Bring more texture photos and gaze portraits to do this again on Monday

Monday in Photography: The Gaze

Today we took pics of each other reflecting different gazes that we looked at last week. We tried to respond specifically to the following photographs by Cindy Sherman, Julia Cameron and Richard Avedon.

INTENTION: To experiment with different styles.
THINGS TO CONSIDER:
- Where the person is looking
- Body language
- What is in the background
- The composition (How much of the body do we see? Where is it within the frame?)

Portrait Photography

What you should have in your books by Friday 18 November:

Portrait Photography
-Notes from lesson and film
-Research into one photographer from the 1900's. Background information and how this photographer exemplifies photographs from this era
-Photo response

Taylor/Wessing
- Introduction about the prize
- Photos from the lesson--your response, overlay to show understanding of composition
-Photo/s you added and response

Taylor/Wessing Visit
-What are your intentions? What are you looking for?
- Response to a selection of photographs
- Photo response

The Gaze
- Notes from class with photos
- Further research into one photographer
- Series of photographs showing different gazes

Homework: Cartier Bresson

1. Research the photographs and techniques of Cartier Bresson. Watch this video. Who is he? What type of camera did he use? How did he take photographs? What is the decesive moment?

2 Print at least three Bresson photographs that demonstrate the concept we discuss in class today--framing, composition, balance, horizons, cropping, vectors, weight, diagonal/vertical/horizontal lines. Put tracing paper over the photos demonsrate the concepts above.

3. Find a photograph from one other photographer and do the same.

4. Experiment with your own photographs. Be sure to first state what your intentions are, then experiement, record everything and reflect on your work--what was successful, what did you learn, what would you improve.

What's new

Use this link to Sponfed to find out info on upcoming exhibitions. I've added on good one here:

Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism

My Favourite Self Portraits--of other people