Lessons & Homework
Tuesday, Aug. 22nd
1. Folders, Course, Expectations & Overview
& K (what I know) W (want to know) L (want to learn) chart
3. Dicussion: The Power of a Photograph
HOMEWORK: 1. Get walking permission slip signed 2. Bring in your 5-10 best photos
1. Folders, Course, Expectations & Overview
- Syllabus
- Walking Permission
& K (what I know) W (want to know) L (want to learn) chart
3. Dicussion: The Power of a Photograph
- Article 1 Link
- Article 2 Link
- Discussion: Why is the image so powerful? What does this mean?
- Photos of the Week
- Daily Dozen
- Rankin's Travel Photos
- Something pretty
- Something funny
- Something ugly
- an eye
- a shadow
- a perpendicular line
- parallel lines
- diagonal lines
- S-curve
- light
- movement
- a relationship
- looking up
- looking down
- a circle
- texture
HOMEWORK: 1. Get walking permission slip signed 2. Bring in your 5-10 best photos
Thursday, Aug. 24th
1. Genres of Photography
2. A Closer Look at Photo Books in Pairs
3. Vocab: Law of Thirds, Leading Lines
4. Rules of leaving the classroom
5. Worktime: Photo Scavenger Hunt - w/ a partner - Take 8-10 of each subject to get one good one for all
Tuesday, August 28th
1. Daily Dozen
2. Photos of the Week
3. Compositional Strategies in Photography
video link - creative mode functions
5. Finish Photo scavenger hunt - Take 5-10 photos of EACH category
Thursday, August 30th
1. Genres of Photography
2. Warm-up in Pairs: Choose a Photo from a book & write a paragraph discussing how
ALL compositional strategies are used:
3. Finish Scavenger Hunt
4. Download Photos & Choose a BEST photo from each category
5. Make a folder of BEST photos to present next class
6. Written Paragraph on your own set of photos from scavenger hunt
Friday, August 31st
1. Types of Light, Times of Day
2. Download Photos & Choose a BEST photo from each category
3. Make a folder of BEST photos to present next class
4. Examples: 360 Degree Project
5. Worktime: 360 Degree Project
- Take 100 photos of an object
- Download & Organize
Monday, September 5th - NO SCHOOL - TAKE PHOTOS
Tuesday, September 6th
Thursday, September 8th
1. Daily Dozen
2. How to download, erase photos
3. I-photo tutorial
- Folders, Albums
4. Worktime: Download photos and sort through them
- Make an album of the BEST Scavenger Hunt Photos to present to class
Tuesday, September 11th
1. Student Presentations: Scavenger Hunt
2. 360 Degree Project Rubric
- Take photos
- Download, organize, choose 10 best
- Edit & submit 10 best
Thursday, September 13th
1. Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO: video link
2. Worktime: Using MANUAL Mode, Aperture & Shutter Speed, document:
4. 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- Edit & create folder of 10 best
Friday, September 14th
Walking Field Trip to the Beach - bring walking shoes, water, etc...
Tuesday, September 18th
1. Worktime Habits
2. 360 Degree Project Examples
3. Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
Thursday, September 20th
1. Daily Dozen
3. Presentations & Peer Critique: 360 Degree Project
4. . Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
Tuesday, September 25th
1. Featured Artist: Liz West
2. Quiz
3. Aperture/Shutter Speed Lesson #2
4. Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
Thursday, September 27th
1. Manual Mode 2. Presentations & Peer Critique: 360 Degree Project
3. Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
4. Aperture/Shutter Speed Lesson #2
Friday, September 28th
1. Photos of the Week
2. Ms Rankin's Slovenia photos
3. Presentations & Peer Critique: 360 Degree Project
Tuesday, October 2nd
1. Daily Dozen
2. How to crop and adjust in i-photo
3. 360 Degree Presentations
4. Worktime
1. Genres of Photography
2. A Closer Look at Photo Books in Pairs
3. Vocab: Law of Thirds, Leading Lines
4. Rules of leaving the classroom
5. Worktime: Photo Scavenger Hunt - w/ a partner - Take 8-10 of each subject to get one good one for all
- Something pretty
- Something funny
- Something ugly
- an eye
- a shadow
- a perpendicular line
- parallel lines
- diagonal lines
- S-curve
- light
- movement
- a relationship
- looking up
- looking down
- a circle
- texture
Tuesday, August 28th
1. Daily Dozen
2. Photos of the Week
3. Compositional Strategies in Photography
- vocab: composition, photographic voice, Subject, Focus, Perspective, Law of Thirds, Leading Lines, Framing, Border Mergers, Types of Lines, Balance, Simplicity, Depth of Field
video link - creative mode functions
5. Finish Photo scavenger hunt - Take 5-10 photos of EACH category
Thursday, August 30th
1. Genres of Photography
2. Warm-up in Pairs: Choose a Photo from a book & write a paragraph discussing how
ALL compositional strategies are used:
- composition: how the shot is set up
- photographic voice: style of photographer,
- Subject,: what is being photographed
- Focus: A) subject b) how blurry subject is
- Perspective: change the angle of shot, camera, body
- Law of Thirds:
- Leading Lines: leads eye around photo
- Framing: using a natural border
- Border Mergers: subject cut off on border or color merger
- Types of Lines: diagonal, horizontal, parallel, perpendicular, triangles
- Balance: symmetry
- Simplicity:
- Depth of Field: how much of photo is in focus
3. Finish Scavenger Hunt
4. Download Photos & Choose a BEST photo from each category
5. Make a folder of BEST photos to present next class
6. Written Paragraph on your own set of photos from scavenger hunt
Friday, August 31st
1. Types of Light, Times of Day
2. Download Photos & Choose a BEST photo from each category
3. Make a folder of BEST photos to present next class
4. Examples: 360 Degree Project
5. Worktime: 360 Degree Project
- Take 100 photos of an object
- Download & Organize
Monday, September 5th - NO SCHOOL - TAKE PHOTOS
Tuesday, September 6th
- Film: The History of Photography
- National Geographic Photographers
Thursday, September 8th
1. Daily Dozen
2. How to download, erase photos
3. I-photo tutorial
- Folders, Albums
4. Worktime: Download photos and sort through them
- Make an album of the BEST Scavenger Hunt Photos to present to class
Tuesday, September 11th
1. Student Presentations: Scavenger Hunt
2. 360 Degree Project Rubric
- Examples of Past Student Projects: 360 Degrees
- Take photos
- Download, organize, choose 10 best
- Edit & submit 10 best
Thursday, September 13th
1. Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO: video link
2. Worktime: Using MANUAL Mode, Aperture & Shutter Speed, document:
- 3 scenes using Manual mode: Record the same composition at 6 exposures: -2 -1 0 +1 +2
- each scene should have different lighting
- Av: Aperture practice: A scene documenting Depth of Field at 4 different depths of focus
- Tv: Shutter Speed Practice: A scene documenting 4 different speeds of motion
- A final photo where the background is blurred and person in motion
4. 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- (consider light, distance, angle of body and camera, focus of shot, context, background, humor)
- Edit & create folder of 10 best
Friday, September 14th
Walking Field Trip to the Beach - bring walking shoes, water, etc...
- Be on time!
- Bring your object
Tuesday, September 18th
1. Worktime Habits
2. 360 Degree Project Examples
3. Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- (consider light, distance, angle of body and camera, focus of shot, context, background, humor)
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
Thursday, September 20th
1. Daily Dozen
3. Presentations & Peer Critique: 360 Degree Project
4. . Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- (consider light, distance, angle of body and camera, focus of shot, context, background, humor)
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
Tuesday, September 25th
1. Featured Artist: Liz West
2. Quiz
3. Aperture/Shutter Speed Lesson #2
4. Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- (consider light, distance, angle of body and camera, focus of shot, context, background, humor)
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
Thursday, September 27th
1. Manual Mode 2. Presentations & Peer Critique: 360 Degree Project
3. Worktime: 360 Degree Project - Take 200 photos from all angles possible
- (consider light, distance, angle of body and camera, focus of shot, context, background, humor)
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - Field Trip
- Edit & create folder of 10 best - 360
- A folder of "Camera Settings" Photos
4. Aperture/Shutter Speed Lesson #2
Friday, September 28th
1. Photos of the Week
2. Ms Rankin's Slovenia photos
3. Presentations & Peer Critique: 360 Degree Project
Tuesday, October 2nd
1. Daily Dozen
2. How to crop and adjust in i-photo
3. 360 Degree Presentations
4. Worktime
Thursday, October 4th
1. Daily Dozen
2. 360 Degree Presentations
3. Worktime
1. Daily Dozen
2. 360 Degree Presentations
3. Worktime
- Manual Mode Project
- Independent Project
Tuesday, October 9th
1. 360 Degree Presentations
2. Independent Project Inspirations
1. 360 Degree Presentations
2. Independent Project Inspirations
- Your Shot Assignments _ National Geographic
- Ben Von Wong
- Chris Jordan
- Peter Menzel - Families and their Foods
- Peter Menzel - Food & Nutrition
- Manual Mode Project
- Independent Project
- Choose a theme and take 200 photos in this vein and present the top 10
Thursday, October 11th
1. Final Call for 360 Degree Presentations
2. Independent Project Inspirations 3. Worktime:
1. Final Call for 360 Degree Presentations
2. Independent Project Inspirations 3. Worktime:
- Manual Mode Project
- Independent Project
- Choose a theme and take 200 photos in this vein and present the top 10
Tuesday, October 16th
1. Independent Project Inspirations
2. Manual Mode Instruction
→ Illustrates different MOTION CAPTURE/BLUR
→ Illustrates Light Sensitivity
1. Independent Project Inspirations
2. Manual Mode Instruction
- Using MANUAL MODE, Aperture & Shutter Speed, document:
- 3 scenes using Manual Mode: Record the same composition at 5 exposures: -2 -1 0 +1 +2
- Av: Aperture practice: The same composition (scene) documenting Depth of Field at 5 different depths of focus - (EX: f22 f16 f8 f5.6 f4)
- Tv: Shutter Speed Practice: The same composition (scene) documenting 5 different speeds of motion
→ Illustrates different MOTION CAPTURE/BLUR
- ISO: The same composition (scene) taken at each of 5 ISOs
→ Illustrates Light Sensitivity
- PANNING: A final photo where the background is blurred and person in motion (move camera with person)
- Manual Mode Project
- Independent Project
- Choose a theme and take 200 photos in this vein and present the top 10
Thursday, October 18th
1. Independent Project Inspirations
2. Manual Mode Video: Shutter Speed, Aperture & ISO
3. Worktime:
Friday, October 19th
1. Independent Project Presentations
2. Photos of the Week
3. Submit Manual Mode Presentation
1. Independent Project Inspirations
2. Manual Mode Video: Shutter Speed, Aperture & ISO
3. Worktime:
- Manual Mode Project
- Independent Project
- Choose a theme and take 200 photos in this vein and present the top 10
Friday, October 19th
1. Independent Project Presentations
2. Photos of the Week
3. Submit Manual Mode Presentation
Tuesday, October 30thTuesday, October 23rd
B2: Field Trip to Schwann Lagoon
B3: work period:
- Independent Project
- Manual Mode Presentation
Thursday, October 25th
1. Manual Mode TEST
2. work period:
- Independent Project
- Manual Mode Presentation
Tuesday, October 30th
1. Independent Project Presentations
2. Manual Mode Presentations
3. Photos of the Week
3. Worktime
Thursday, November 1st
1. Student Presentations
2. Landscape vs. Portrait: Daily Dozen
3. Portrait Taking Tips & Portrait Project Directions
- Make your subject comfortable
- Use the light
- Don't take photos of people who don't want their photo taken
Friday, November 2nd
1. Student Presentations
2. Portrait Taking Tips
3. Levi's Portrait Presentation
4. Worktime:
- Portrait
- Landscape
Tuesday, November 6th
1. The History of Portraiture: PBS video
2. Portrait Photographers: Books, The Concerned Photographer
3. Worktime: Portrait Project
Thursday, November 8th
B2:
1. Tedtalk: Unique Portraiture
2. Famous Portrait Photographers 3. Worktime: Portrait project
B3: Field Trip to Schwann Lagoon - meet at 11:35 to walk
Tuesday, November 13th
1. Famous Portrait Photographers
2. Student Examples of Portrait Photography
3. Worktime: Portraiture & Landscape
Thursday, November 15th
1. How to take a good Landscape.
2. Worktime: Portraiture Project and Landscape Projects
1. Famous Portrait Photographers
2. Student Examples of Portrait Photography
3. Worktime: Portraiture & Landscape
- Make a folder of the 200 images TAKEN - "Portraiture Rankin"
- Make a folder of your BEST to edit - "Portraiture BEST"
- Make a folder of the 200 images TAKEN - "Landscapes"
- Make a folder of your BEST to edit - "Landscape BEST"
- Be creative
- Be original
- Take angles not normally seen
- Choose black & white or color depending on emotional content
- Crop to get perfect framing
- Pay attention to depth of field
- Add contrast/saturation to add emotion
- Add titles to add depth
- Post to website with titles
- Make the gallery/slideshow/photo arrangement aesthetically pleasing on your weebly
Thursday, November 15th
1. How to take a good Landscape.
2. Worktime: Portraiture Project and Landscape Projects
- Make a folder of the 200 images TAKEN - "Portraiture"
- Make a folder of your BEST to edit - "Portraiture BEST"
- Make a folder of the 200 images TAKEN - "Landscapes"
- Make a folder of your BEST to edit - "Landscape BEST"
- Be creative
- Be original
- Take angles not normally seen
- Choose black & white or color depending on emotional content
- Crop to get perfect framing
- Pay attention to depth of field
- Add contrast/saturation to add emotion
- Add titles to add depth
- Post to website with titles
- Make the gallery/slideshow/photo arrangement aesthetically pleasing on your weebly
Thanksgiving Break: Work on Landscape Project:
200 Photos Taken & 10 final Shots
Due Wednesday, December 10th
200 Photos Taken & 10 final Shots
Due Wednesday, December 10th
Tuesday, November 27th
1. Netflix Tales by Light: Episode - Tribes
2. Worktime:
- Download Photos from break
- Work on Portrait and Landscape Projects
- Take photos, edit, put into presentations
1. Netflix Tales by Light: Episode - Tribes
2. Worktime:
- Download Photos from break
- Work on Portrait and Landscape Projects
- Take photos, edit, put into presentations
Thursday, November 29th
1. Netflix Tales by Light: Episode - Himalaya
2. Street Photography Slideshow - inspired by Robert Frank
3. Worktime:
- Download Photos
- Work on Portrait and Landscape Projects
- Take photos, edit, put into presentations
1. Netflix Tales by Light: Episode - Himalaya
2. Street Photography Slideshow - inspired by Robert Frank
3. Worktime:
- Download Photos
- Work on Portrait and Landscape Projects
- Take photos, edit, put into presentations
Tuesday, December 4th
1. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
2. National Geographic Photos of the Day
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Thursday, December 6th
1. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
2. Landscape Photography Examples & Tips
3. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Friday, December 7th
1. Aperture in Landscape
2. The Daily Dozen
3. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Tuesday, December 11th
1. Ansel Adams and Landscape Photography
2. The Daily Dozen
3. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Thursday, December 13th
1. Modern Landscape Photographers
2. The Daily Dozen
3. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Tuesday, December 18 & Thursday, December 20th - FINAL EXAM:
A) Present Landscape and Independent Project 2
B) Show knowledge of Photo techniques by critiquing your peers
1. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
2. National Geographic Photos of the Day
- Show the slideshow for about 30 photos - you can freeze the screen while you click on and read the caption
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Thursday, December 6th
1. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
2. Landscape Photography Examples & Tips
3. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Friday, December 7th
1. Aperture in Landscape
2. The Daily Dozen
3. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Tuesday, December 11th
1. Ansel Adams and Landscape Photography
2. The Daily Dozen
3. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Thursday, December 13th
1. Modern Landscape Photographers
2. The Daily Dozen
3. Peer Critique: Present Portraiture Projects
4. Worktime:
- Portraiture
- Landscape Photography
- Independent Project #2
Tuesday, December 18 & Thursday, December 20th - FINAL EXAM:
A) Present Landscape and Independent Project 2
B) Show knowledge of Photo techniques by critiquing your peers