AWT3M Website - Semester
2, 2008-2009 - Jim Martin, Aurora High
School
What’s Going On in the Final 3
Weeks, May/June 2009
Don’t
forget the TEST on June 4! Items on
it are noted in red below.
Course Outline : What will we learn, what will we do, how is it evaluated?
Notebook/Journal : required every day!
Course Fees:
$35, due in week 1. This covers the cost of your photo kit,
(paper, film, negative holders), darkroom chemicals, darkroom equipment, film
and digital cameras you can borrow, batteries, photo printer paper and ink,
folders, handouts plus other art consumables.
Coffee
Time! Actually we're not allowed to drink
coffee in the labs, but you need to find a large (1 kg) coffee tin or similar
light-tight container and bring it in ASAP – we’ll start using them
in a couple of weeks. See the pinhole page for details.
Links to Useful Media Arts
Sites
Lessons & Tutorials
Lenses – Compare
the results of lenses from fisheye to telephoto (on
the test June 4)
Shutter Speed & Motion
Blur – what can you do with fast and slow shutter speeds?
Aperture & Depth of Field – how
does depth of field affect a picture?
Digital Photography
Digital
versus Film ----- Review Questions
Digital
Cameras: The Parts that Matter
Digital Camera Settings, Controls and Operation
Image Size and Resolution
and File Formats for Saving (new for test)
Calendar: Events, Lessons, Exercises, Assignments
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Exercises,
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Course Intro What Is This Course About? Capturing Light! What Is "Non-Traditional Media"? Photo Kits, Use of Cameras Course Fees Notebook/Journal Lessons, Class Structure Slide Shows & Critiques Handing in Assts for Evaluation Computer Use Website |
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Photo-Chemistry and
Photograms Silver Chemistry
& Paper Developing Darkroom Basics : Exposing and Developing Photo Paper |
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Due : Friday Feb. 6
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Elements and Principles of Design in Photography Mounting and
Titling Your Work |
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Due : Monday Feb. 23 |
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Early Photography A look at the first techniques for
capturing images |
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Due : Tuesday Feb. 17 |
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Art Criticism Operations |
Art Criticism Worksheet Deconstructing Images |
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History of
Photography Video |
Key Works Asst |
Presentations begin Monday May 11 |
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Building And Using a
Pinhole Camera Camera Obscura Making a Coffee Tin Pinhole Camera My Experiments – Ghosts & Fisheyes! Experimenting with Focal Length Scanning & Processing in Photoshop |
Test on Photograms, Developing, darkroom, pinhole, El. & principles LookèTest Review |
Due: March 6 First Test Thursday Feb. 26 |
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Capturing Images
– the Eye and the Camera Basic Parts and Functions of Any Camera; Comparison with the Human Eye (new) Film Cameras Suitable for this Class (coming soon: ) Adjusting ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, Focus Lenses: Focal Lengths from fisheye to telephoto |
Qualifying Quiz – checklist of skills to demonstrate before receiving film Parts Practice – can you name all the numbered parts? |
Be ready for this before you
receive film and/or a camera. Quiz on Camera/Eye,
Camera Parts and Exposure basics Friday March 27 |
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Photo Fundamentals Using
Film Film – types; ISO; formats Developing Film ß new Exposure Control Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO, Light Meter subject, Composition lighting Analyzing Good Photos Photo Books, Magazines & Websites Exposure Compensation on June 4 test |
Exposure Review Web Page or Exposure Photo
Shoot (film) Motion Blur/Frozen Action Photo Shoot (film or possibly SLR digital) Masterpiece Composition Photo Shoot (film) Test What to Study & example Questions |
Test April 16 on Exposure (Ap, Shutter speed, ISO, Equivalent Exposure, Metering etc.), Motion Blur/Frozen Action, Depth-of-Field, and shooting in given situations Last film developing day : Friday April 24 Last day to work in the
darkroom is Monday April 27 Hand everything in (negatives,
contact sheets, prints & writeup) at the beginning of class April 28 |
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Colour Theory |
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Copyright and Media
Arts – when can you use other people's images? |
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Digital Photography Sensors; pixels vs grains Types of Digital Cameras Menus & Settings: Size, Mode, White Balance, ISO, F-Stop, Shutter Speed Buying a Camera |
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Light and Shadow Value Contrast Direct, Indirect; Back-Lighting Natural vs Artificial White Balance Flashes; Fill-In Flash |
Lighting Photo Shoot |
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Digital Files Downloading Methods & Software File Formats – RAW, JPEG, Bitmap, PSD File Size and Quality – DPI, Pixels needed for different purposes Display Options File Management & Cleanup Your Digital Portfolio |
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Portraits |
Hands & Faces Photo Shoot |
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Digital Editing
using PhotoShop Dodging/Burning Cloning Selections – tools; feather; add/subtract; invert Adjusting selections Merging Pieces of Different Images (Layers) Filters, Effects Layers for effects, backgrounds, collages Text: fonts, colours, effects; committing text Hungry for
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Assignment : Digital Image Processing in PhotoShop |
Due Thursday May 14 |
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Digital Photo
Shoots 1 – Elements & Principles 2 – Blurs – Motion, Panning, DOF |
Digital Photo Shoot 1
– Elements & Principles |
Due Tuesday May 19 |
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Printing Digital
Images Mounting |
Digital Self-Portrait Asst |
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Animation Concepts – Animando & Norman McLaren
animations 103-4 Zoetrope Stop-frame Animation Still-frame Animation using Movie Maker |
Stop-frame class project Still-frame Animation Asst Run Lola Run critique |
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Sound Finding and Capturing Sound Clips Recording and Editing using Audiophile Synching Sound and Images in PowerPoint, Windows Movie-Maker and/or Flash |
Soundscape – Slide Show with Appropriate Sound Effects (if time allows…) |
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Final
Projects – Portfolio of Theme Shots Summative Test Small lessons and review will be given each day for the preceding week. |
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Old stuff (ignore!):
Thursday (Nov. 27)
is PHOTO CRITIQUE DAY ***
Be ready to
informally show your best mounted photos to the class. Explain a bit about, how they were shot
(shutter speed & aperture, lighting conditions) and why you like them from
an artistic perspective – what features/elements make the photo
“work” – and what else makes it a good photo (e.g. the
subject, the composition). Also
tell us how you’d improve it if you could.
Surrealists - notes and links useful for the
summative project.
1. Great Photographer Research Asst
Finish collecting information and images from the Internet, as outlined in the assignment. Don’t forget to keep track of the URL/source of every quote and image you intend to use. It’s easy if you keep open a Word doc for this purpose – just copy & paste the address into it, and make brief notes.
Then assemble into a Powerpoint presentation. You will present this to the class early next week. On Monday you should be done, but I will help you with any problems.
As it says in the assignment webpage, make sure you have more to say than is written on your slides. The slides should be mostly visual (i.e. a photo or photos), with point form info that helps you remember what to say about each slide. There must be enough info to let me know what you found out when I mark it, but the presentation should be mostly visual and oral, not a whole lot of screens full of text. Be sure to put things in your own words!
This is a group project in conjunction with Earth Week. This is your chance to explore both the negative and positive environmental impacts that photography. With your assigned group, you will research an assigned topic, and prepare a Powerpoint presentation to inform the rest of us about what you found out.
This should take 1-2 periods, and must be completed by Friday. Please keep track of who in your group was actually working on the research and presentation – hopefully all of you. Select someone who you trust to be there every day, and keep your group files in their login.
Work hard, have fun!!!